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Did you know this was on the horizon? The New York Times reports: The next frontier will be the home. One company that wants to be the first to deliver a 3-D printer for consumers is Desktop Factory, started by IdeaLab, a technology incubator here. The company will start selling its first printer for $4,995 this year. Bill Gross, chairman of IdeaLab, says the technology it has developed, which uses a halogen light …
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Today, Slate has a slide show featuring a whole host of racist and stereotypical advertising imagery throughout the 20th century, like this bit from 1964: I can just picture in my mind, legions of white men in suits and horn-rimmed glasses sitting around Madison Avenue boardrooms just loving all of this. But the slide show ends with Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima, now more dignified in their appearances, but as the …
By David Burn
On Ad Age's behalf, Teressa Iezzi, the editor of Creativity magazine spoke to Sebastien Agneessens, founder of Formavision about the use of fine art in advertising. Agneessens, a gallery owner with an M.B.A. and a background in marketing at companies such as L'Oreal and Chanel, launched Formavision in 2002 when brands began to seek him out to curate their art adventures. Agneessens curated the Lexus 460 show as well …
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"Unintentionally Hilarious Local Commercial" Thanks to The Consumerist (one of my favorite blogs), we get "Great Moments In Commercial History." I give you one of many gems, Don's Guns: Who gives a crap about Singaporean two-page spread ads for Legos when this spot is just begging for a pencil? …
Someone passed this along to me. On Craigslist, there's some helpful advice for those looking to get into the ad biz: ive been a creative director for 6 years now. here, i offer my wisdom if you want a job in advertising. 1. be a dick. you dont necessarily have to have a large one, just gotta know how to act like you do. not just a 7 incher either. we're talking 12 inches. preferably larger. now that you've fooled …
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Over at AdFreak the comments have been coming in hot and heavy over this ad for a Boise bagel shop that ran in a local alt-weekly: But scroll down through all the cream cheese and schmear jokes and you'll find a comment from Brian at Idaho Ad Agencies: There's no reportedly about it -- it did run in the Boise Weekly. Even though it was supposed to be in support of the Vagina Monologues, what you see here is what was …
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