[Oscars 2010 Mejor Cortometraje] – Logorama
This is 16 minutes long animated film of logos and and advertising characters produced by a serious 3D house in France, and nominated for an Oscar, but yet in dire threat of lawsuits for use of corporate logos. At least this is according to the blogs, which, are… well… contradictory. [...]
A site called Vintage Ad Browser has over 100,000 categorized advertisements from today all the way back to the 1840s. Categorized by type and date. A great resource for research. (tx @twhid)
Is there a word for the irrational and/or rational fear of becoming the target of direct marketers?
Advertisaphobia? Adverphobia? Adphobia? Ad-phobia?
From October 2008… this post was caught in WordPress limbo. I publish it now, well after this NYC microtrend has gone national, if not global. The questions remain the same, the scope has just increased…
I’ve noticed a new NYC microtrend of people wearing billowy checkered cotton scarfs around their necks. They remind me distinctly [...]
Two things happened on my bike today, one which is about advertising and the other isn’t but both are about public space and it’s uses and controls.
One: who owns the street sign posts
This morning I rode my bike to a not-so-close subway stop because I had to run into Manhattan for a meeting and make [...]
I guess there is a reason they call it Mafia Wars. Business Insider has broken a story about insurance company shills paying Facebook users into sending emails to their Congressional Representatives opposing health care reform.
This is interesting in the context of the Health Care debate (see the attempt to push Komen for the Cure [...]
Steve sent me someone’s inquiry that came in off of the AAA contact page. Usually these are either “hey you guys rock” or they are lost advertisers who try to sell ad space somewhere they shouldn’t and don’t get it when we shame them.
Here’s the full email. I put it out there in [...]
Corporate giving is a bad enough deal with the devil, but take corporate giving and mash it up with social networking, and wow! Not only does chase have you scurrying about to give them PR/branding impressions, they get all your personal data in the process.
Give me Capitalism or Give Me Deatlh & Make Love not Capitalism
On the LES of NYC. Too slick. What are they selling? Whose campaign is this?
Just imagine for a moment: you sit down for dinner, and you are asked, would you like bottled, tap, or enhanced water tonight?
is this a self help group, or a [...]
I’m on an airplane to San Francisco as I write this, we are somewhere over southern Nevada. but I will post it when I land. I wait, despite the fact that everyone on this flight was given a trial voucher for an in-air wifi service that is partnering with the airline I am flying on. [...]
So the question is… is this a twix advertisement? or was it just that cool to paint a Twix logo on the back of your white portable radio in the heyday of 80’s graffiti-cool?
Picture via Mariasa Olson’s flickr set IMG_FAN
The folks at Tappening have released one of the funniest and smartest PSA-ish social education campaigns I’ve seen in a long time. Well, maybe since the New York Times Special Edition.
Reports are these cute single color posters with white lies about the bottled water industry will be hitting the streets of NYC soon, if [...]
I received this today in my inbox. I don’t think there is any commentary needed:
Hello Michael,
Been wondering about this multi-generational workplace, how social media plays out with each generation and what it really means for how business will be conducted in the future? I have been invited to conduct a training class with [...]
