// 10 March 2010, 16:55
Mad Men is a hit show — we love it. It’s about advertising, vaguely, and the characters have become quite iconic in only a few short years. So naturally, they’ve been made into Barbie Dolls. What?
Four characters from the show are being made into Barbies. But my immediate WTF reaction stems from the disconnect between [...]
// a tale of advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding, design: product
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// 22 August 2009, 16:12
The Advertising and Design community has been talking about Art & Copy, the new documentary film about the ad industry. With anticipation, we’ve been sharing the trailer all over the various Internet outlets.
Well, last night I snuck out to a preview and managed to watch the film. The two words on my tongue after seeing [...]
// a tale of advertising: outdoor, advertising: print, advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding, cinema, music, national identities, photography, politics, the industry
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// 09 August 2009, 14:56
Just when you thought chocolate and sex were safely separated by a impenetrable wall, Mars debuts Fling, a chocolate bar aimed at women. And by “aimed at women” of course we’re talking about lots of pink, some kind of edible synthetic sparkle goo, and marketing jam-packed with double entendres and sexual innuendoes. Let’s take a [...]
// a tale of advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding, fashion
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// 22 July 2009, 13:04
Gidget, the Chihuahua from those cheeky Taco Bell ads of the late 1990s, has died. Read the obit on People.com »
With any luck, this will also mark the death of all talking animals in television ads. Are we done with this crap yet?
// a tale of advertising: tv/radio
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// 18 June 2009, 21:47
I love being wrong. I love those rare occasions when advertising surprises and makes me sit up and take notice. Lately, we’re seeing an injection of cleverness in the form of vampire advertising.
These ads, for real products, are not intended for normal folks, who shuffle about during their morning commutes and Saturday golf outings, but [...]
// a tale of advertising: online, advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding
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// 14 May 2009, 17:19
Just when I thought all television advertising was shit, I see these cheeky spots for Virgin Trains. Maybe it’s just the Americans that have lost their minds.
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// a tale of Britain, advertising: tv/radio
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// 13 May 2009, 08:42
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In spite of my continuing observations, and graduate degree, I still do not understand advertising. Specifically, I don’t see how a group of mythical creatures will motivate me to have dinner at Denny’s. I suppose it’s simply an allegory of the sort of late-night riff-raff that tumbles into a [...]
// a tale of WTF, advertising: tv/radio
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