Archive for June, 2009

Coincidence? Hmm… perhaps not?

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

So, the NYT did a story on how uncanny Benjamin Netanyahu’s site looks compared to Barack Obama’s check it out here
New York Times
Funny how sometimes these anomalies can happen so close to home as well. I give you Les Otten’s site Republican hopeful for Maine’s next governor
I’m not going to point any plagiaristic fingers here… »

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Slaughter the Sacred Cows

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Reprinted with permission from Sally Hogshead http://www.radicalcareering.com/hogblog/
Somewhere in your agency, sacred cows lurk in the hallways. They’re wandering through the HR department, or chewing cud in CEO suite. You might even have one curled up in your own office.
Sacred cows are the unquestioned rules, dogmatic systems, and ways of working that seem off-limits to change.
The… »

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Badvertising: Huntington Learning Center

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

From Tabloid Prodigy
This is great Badvertising. I really love the veritae style of them very authentic… if your parents happen to be terrible actors.

Enroll now before the only career path you have left is advertising ya big… »

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Badvertising: Jack in the Box

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

This one really bums me out. I lived out west for a number of years and loved Secret Weapons Jack In The Box spots. They were always pretty funny and well produced. However, it is apparent with this latest installment that either they have left the house that Dick Sittig built or the client forced… »

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Paper Towels - Only sold in stores

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

You’ve probably seen this 1000 times but I just had to put it up. Makes me laugh every time, but then again I’m kind of an idiot like… »

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Designing the stop sign

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

A.K.A: The client, account person, creative interaction…

God, it’s amazing we are not all total pharmaceutical abusing, raging… »

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Badvertising

Monday, June 15th, 2009

This is my intro into what I hope to be a daily posting of Badvertisng. Yes Badvertising capital “B”. Badvertising is the crap that marketers and agency create typically without a real strategy, idea, goal expect to be bad (knowingly or unknowingly). It is the stuff that makes you say “Who the hell thought that… »

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HP logo factory - Logos that totally suck

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Ah yes, yet another cheap logo site (from HP none-the-less) Huh? Isn’t Goodby Silverstein HP’s agency of record? Wonder if they ever farm any design work out to these cats. Anyway, for as low as $299 you can get a two “designers” to create 4 “original concepts” with two revisions included (For all you who… »

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Anything sound familiar?

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Would be funnier if it wasn’t so damn… »

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Being Jackson Pollock

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

www.jacksonpollock.org/
Unleash your creative… »

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