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Yodel – WTF is “Adverising?’

Hey Yodel Australia, how much does “Google’s largest oficial Reselle” charge for copywriting?

Dell Swarm – Dell group buying

Dell Canada and Singapore recently conducted a consumer trial of Dell Swarm. It’s a “group buying” concept that goes beyond Dell’s tradition of direct response and into the social space.
A “swarm” is a group of 1 to 15 people who commit to buying a Dell computer at an increasingly reduced price over 72 hour period.
E.g [...]

Obama’s newspaper industry bailout isn’t one

Looking at my post 2009-trip bank balance tells me I’m no economist. Hell, it’s lucky I’m still not working otherwise I’d probably be trading insolvent. So I won’t comment on the validity or necessity of a US news industry bailout, but this quote:
The president said he is “happy to look at” bills before Congress that [...]

Lemonade movie trailer

When life gives you lemons [or a redundancy notice], make a documentary film about it.

DO THIS OR DIE

In response to a Time Magazine contest for ad agencies to develop an advertisement that served the public interest, Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) focused on the interest of their own peers: Marketers.

DO THIS OR DIE
Is this ad some kind of trick?
No. But it could have been. And at exactly that point rests a do or [...]

Best startup office?

The with arse falling out of the economy and subsequently the travel industry, there’s never been a better time to dedicate 6 months on that million-dollar startup idea you’ve never got around to doing. Why not pack your laptop and even your startup team and move somewhere beautiful?

For me, the aggregate price of moving to [...]

Typography nerd gets angry about a motel sign

Designer-guy buys an old neon sign on eBay. Goes to pick it up (it’s 24ft high, and he has a VW Passat Wagon) and discovers that the new sign is an abomination of piss-poor signwriting. That cost the owners  USD$15,000. He cries. I can’t wait for more.

America Is F*cked…….(Graphically at least) from Jess Gibson on [...]

Mad Men Illustrated (including iPhone wallpapers!)

Link: AMAZING era-style illustrations based on key scenes and characters from Mad Men.

MINI Calculator – What’s your Carfun Footprint?

What’s a Carfun Footprint? It’s the measure of how much “fun” your car is, taking into consideration environmental considerations like emissions and fuel efficiency.
Agency Butler Shine Stern & Partners have released this fun little online Carfun Footprint calculator for Mini USA. It takes your car make and model as inputs, then computers your Footprint using [...]

Bad chinese food pun olympics

Sarcasm is not the lowest form of humour. Not by a long shot. There exists a far baser, even sub-terranean level of low humour, and it’s rising fast to the surface this Olympic season. I speak of the racially themed stereotype pun. Working in and around advertising, I run afoul of the pun (verbal, written [...]