A few things to lighten your afternoon... if the agency beer cart isn't quite enough.
An object lesson on why people don't trust advertising:
And, a few interesting projects from ad people who moonlight as real people:
- IADBIC: The Creative Director at Barefoot is the mastermind behind these wacky poems riffing on advertising. A little fine art meets our art. What was that quote that used to hang on my office wall ... something like welcome to our everyday struggle between capitalism and grace.
Steve's looking for submissions - so, grab your fountain pen and your issue of Ad Busters and get to it. Here's a little inspiration from his site:
"Where I will spread this couplet on spaceships and title it:
Flirt.
Taxi. Or
Atomic Burrito."
- Indexed: Copywriter turned comic Jessica Hagy recently published her first book of clever (sometimes zany) Venn diagrams. I just got the book in the mail - and, it's fab, but there's lots to enjoy on demand, too:
- The Indexed Blog
- Jessica guest blogging on Penguin Books
- And, her Change This Venn manifesto
My faves:
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