Year: 2007
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Bronze but beautiful
Scamp has made a very good point about the bronze winners at Cannes often being the ads which are little bit more quirky and ones you haven’t seen before. I particularly like these:
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Get beered up, sleep it off in a beer can
My friend John pointed me at this one. Seeing as festival season is upon us here’s a novel idea courtesy of Springwise and the Danish ‘Smukfest‘ (great name) festival…oversized branded beer cans, fully furnished with a table and chairs by IKEA, a loft bed with a skylight and sun roof, and a can-shaped refrigerator. Smukfest…
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Death and taxes
Check this out (courtesy of Guy Kawasaki). A visual depicting the US Federal Budget. The site allows you to zoom in, out and around. Amazing comparisons to be had here. Have a guess what those big blue fellas on the left are…
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Planners and Rockstars
Planners are the new ad industry rockstars. This is a description used by Rory Sutherland in a post about just why it is that the advertising blogosphere has been largely originated and perpetuated by planners. Planners are more willing to be generous with their thinking, he says, less concerned with using ideas to secure individual…
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Only Old Fish
Despite the fact that I don’t work in an agency, Victor has given me special dispensation to join his ‘Ad Farts: Old Gits in Ad Agencies’ group on Facebook. My FB profile pic (same as on the left) is a couple of years old now. Am thinking of using one which is more reflective of…
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Mapping 2.0
Useful and nickable visual here courtesy of Lee’s excellent blog mapping the Web 2.0 landscape. Like the way this is done. Originally from.
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Vive Les Vieux Pets!
I have finally taken the plunge and joined Facebook, swelling the ranks of the old farts trying to get with the programme. Come and be my friend so I can bore you there as well. I shall now be searching out a suitable 80’s throwback group to join.
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Fresh perspective
Do we challenge our skilled people enough to step out of their comfort zones? Probably not. But sometimes when we do the results are spectacular. I’ve just been away in Italy for two weeks (and lovely it was too) and here’s something I learnt while I was there. Corradino d’Ascanio was an aeronautical designer who…
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Slush Puppy
I’m back. Two weeks without reading or thinking about anything work related and with no exercise has left mind and body the consistency of mush (in a good way).
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I’m now on a well deserved break for a couple of weeks. ODF will be back (and bitchin’) in a fortnight. Keep on fishin’…