The Experiences of Temple Advertising Students
It was only a matter of time before I encountered my first deadline experience in the “real” world of advertising. The word “deadline” originated in 1855, and referred to “a boundary around a military prison beyond which a prisoner could not venture without risk of being shot by the guards.”…
The agency Moving Brands, created this new identity for “All About Tea” based in Portsmouth, UK. Their execution makes sense based on the brief: “Moving Brands were tasked with creating a new identity that would stand out in a “sea of sameness.” The identity needed to work effectively across their…
Information design, AKA infographs, are getting increasingly popular every day, week, month, year. Personally I find them tough to do, basically because it is really easy to make them look cheesy. In this primarily image heavy post I am featuring the work of Christoph Almasy. His information design is unparalleled…
It’s a good idea to have some sort of online presence outside of Facebook. A blog is an excellent way to showcase your unique tastes and talents. Every blog has (or should have) an About Me page. This allows users to get a quick insight into you and your background.…
Have you heard about the .gay initiative? Scott Seitz, the CEO of dotGay, is planning to ask the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to approve .gay as ICANN’s application period begins. Facebook recently began offering the following options for ‘relationship status’: civil union and domestic partnership. This…
Okay, so Activia has a new campaign that just launched, developed by Young & Rubicam. They are an agency based out of Prague, Czech Republic. I’m sure that they were going for a concept that they wanted to really spark an interest among society towards this apparent problem, I think…
Join PANMA (Philadelphia Area New Media Association) for the first event of 2011, as Scott McNulty, author, blogger and overall fun guy introduces us to creating a blog that people want to read.
I Stumble(d)Upon a great article the other day titled: 17 Outstanding Sources for Advertising Inspiration. The article was featured on a great design based website called Designm.ag Some of the entries I’m sure you’ve heard of (Ads of the World, Ad Forum) but others are hidden gems (Coloribus has over…
I watched something cool on PBS recently, that I think everyone will find to be very interesting! Check out “Art & Copy: An Independent Lens.” It’s an extremely interesting documentary about Advertising in which you “find out how they [the major faces in advertising] changed the way we see, feel,…
The first word that came to my mind when I read the first sentence of an article on BiteDaily and saw the first image of this article was the word brilliant. This is not an exaggeration, I truly was just jealous of someone else being able to come up with…
I decided to watch the Twitter in Plain English Common Craft Video because I was curious as to why so many people were captivated by this particular social network. After I was finished viewing I was completley turned off to joining.
I had the opportunity this afternoon to attend Jonathan Katz’s lecture at Tyler sponsored by the Department of Art History.* Dr. Jonathan Katz, co-curator of “Hide/Seek” and Chair, Visual Studies Doctoral Program, SUNY, Buffalo gave a lecture entitled “Eleven Seconds out of 113 Years: An(ant)tomy of a Conflict.” The talk,…
