A shamless use of Woody Guthrie for no other reason than the photo is excellent and boy is that a slogan
It seems that the classic advertising slogan has fallen deeply out of fashion.
Mark Earls of ‘Herd’ fame and I got together with Russell to talk about the way we set about preparing as planners for an intial…
Sergei M. Eisenstein’s 1925 film, Battleship Potemkin
I have been giving a bit of thought to HHCL recently.
A wonderful pamphlet by S.O.R.T design – The Society of Revisionist Typographers
I’ve been thinking about aphorisms again and why they are such wonderful things.
Photo courtesy of Balls is clearly much less of a campaign than Honda’s ‘Power of Dreams’ but as one off TV commericals go really rather…
The The Charge of the Light Brigade is in so many ways a lesson for brands that think about social media as just another channel.
As you may know my basic philosophy about brands and web 2.0 is proceed…with caution. Social media is unfamiliar territory for brands and their representatives – largely because the rules are created by the community not the communicators – and they should stear well clear unless they know exactly what they are doing.
Fred Dibnah – steeplejack and an advocate of Britain’s industrial heritage. He would have hated all of us but that doesn’t stop us loving him.
After a feisty exchange about Honda it is time to think about which campaign to advocate for October.
The rules are emerging slowly.
Gill Sans – Eric Gill’s seminal typeface and as simple and elegant as this little presentation (which is in Tahoma).
A client asked me recently to put together a quick presentation on why brands were a good idea. I bashed this out largely ignoring all Russell’s powerpoint rules.
I think it has a simple (naive even) elegance. See what you think – you can veiw it here and download it if you can be bothered to.
By the way wikipedia has an excellent Eric Gill quote “First I think, then I draw my think”. From now on I am going to adopt the phrase ‘First I think, then I write my think’.
Good piece in the Guardian’s comment is free blog by Neil Borman about his buring of the brands – kind of illustrates my point really.
The Last Judgement by Rubens 1577 – 1640 So here is the idea. We love great thinking. We love great work. We believe great thinking…
The ethics of advertising to children is naturally a hot topic. Who should be allowed to advertise, what should they be allowed to advertise, when should they be allowed to advertise and which advertising techniques should they be allowed to use? However, the ethics of promotions aimed at kids seems less of a debate when I think they have a potentially far more damaging effect.
