Ben Popken unearthed a treasure trove of branded European posters from early- to mid-century. Somehow, I can't imagine much of the work we see today holding up this well, or transforming itself into something someone somewhere might call art. …
Daddy Starbux Helps Struggling Artists In Their Midst
Lewis Lazare picked up on this Starbucks press release: As much as the coffee itself, the employees who serve it are what make the Starbucks experience unique. In an attempt to help customers better understand the real people who wear the Starbucks aprons, the company installed an elaborate multiscreen video wall at its 932 N. Rush store. The multiple screens will feature changing videos of local Starbucks baristas …
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Tom Messner’s Reading List
Tom Messner is a partner at Euro RSCG, and apparently he's got a lot of time on his hands. Writing in Adweek this week, he plans to spend the next 2 months "reading and possibly absorbing as many of the available marketing books as inhumanly possible." Here's his list, divided into the "Old Testament" and "New Testament" of marketing books: I'm sure Luke Sullivan would be depressed to think that "Hey Whipple, …
Durham Rockers Repeat As Champs
Adfreak reports Pants, the house band from McKinney + Silver won the Fluid Battle of Ad Bands III last night in NYC. “There’s no winning and losing in rock,” Alex Bogusky told us moments before the Crispin Porter + Bogusky band, Ironic Trucker Hat, took the stage at the Supper Club last night. And when you have competitors with names like The Shameless Haxx and The Happy Endings (to say nothing of the acts mentioned …
We All Need Brand Camp
For 79 more wickedly insightful marketing 'toons from this artist, visit Tom Fishburne's …
Mr. Bill Knew What Would Happen To New Orleans
Yes. THIS Mr. Bill... In 2004, he appeared in a number of PSA's designed to inform New Orleans citizens about the importance of protecting our wetlands. Click here. Watch "Hurricane Sluggo." (I think you need Windows Media Player to watch it). Walter Williams, Mr. Bill's creator, is a native of New Orleans, I believe. I'm sure he had no idea how exactly right he turned out to be. …
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The Poetics Of Corruption, A.K.A. Ad Copy
One of America's great poets—James Dickey—worked in advertising. From 1956 to 1959 he was as a copywriter for McCann-Erickson in New York. He then worked for agencies in Atlanta until 1961, before being rescued by a Guggeheim Fellowship. Dickey liked to say he was "selling his soul to the devil in the daytime and buying it back at night." As he grew more successful in advertising, Mr. Dickey said, he realized he was …
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