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Category Archives: Advertising

The Goodbye Scholz Series

Friday, September 12, 2008

Me and the people who I worked with….

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Short Break | Some Great Design Clips

Monday, September 1, 2008

Creative Review responds with “Some of the Greatest Design and Ad Clips on Youtube.” Pictured above is an interview with Wim Crouwel at his show in Paris last year.

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a quote that makes us laugh

Monday, September 1, 2008

and shiver?

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Li Ning

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Some nice Olympics-related advertising from China. Agency is Leo Burnett in Shanghai.

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The Girl Effect

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

It’s good to see that a big corporation is promoting “girl power.”

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Talking and Smoking

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The whole “smoking is bad for you” thing hasn’t really hit China, so there’s an almost whimsical, celebratory attitude towards nicotine. Cigarettes are given as gifts, purchased by the boxload at duty free shops and are generally considered an inexpensive luxury. Lyn Jeffery over at Virtual China posts about the beauty of Chinese cigarette packaging [...]

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Yes We Cannes

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Sorry, there hadn’t been a good (or bad?) pun in the title in awhile. I was one of 11,000 advertising/marketing/media/etc people to go to Cannes last week and I’m glad I was able to experience the craziness at least once.

The beach looked nice, but there was no time to sit around!

This funny sticker was [...]

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History of In-game Advertising

Monday, May 19, 2008

Adverlab’s Ilya Vedrashko offers an enlightening look at early examples of in-game marketing. Coke-centric Space Invaders, Kool-Aid Man vs. the Thristies and J&J’s Tooth Protector are a few of my favorites. You can download the entire chapter from his thesis paper here.

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Apple Talk

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Frieze has posted a nice interview with Rob Janoff, the designer of the original rainbow-striped Apple logo. The interview follows up on the recent presentation of a study by two researchers at Duke and U of Waterloo, Toronto which suggests that just looking at the Apple logo can make people more creative. You think? I’m [...]

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Chinese Ad Agency Spoof

Saturday, April 19, 2008

I stumbled on this link from the Jung Von Matt blog that featured a “Chinese” advertising agency called Shen Advertising. They specialize in taking successful advertising campaigns and adapting them to your brand. Translation: they copy stuff and slap your logo on it. Sounded a little fishy, and upon closer inspection, I realized the whole [...]

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