11.Mar.2010 What does it take?

Last night I gave a presentation to the UMass Marketing Club in Amherst. I felt a little silly just doling out my words of wisdom…so I decided to rope in my colleagues at Jack for help. Here’s what they had to say…(forgive the audio this was guerilla Q&A)

04.Mar.2010 Bhars Wisdom

Love this:
“It takes a cruise ship a long time to turn around which is why people will start using smaller boats.”

26.Feb.2010 Olympic Pictograms

“Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936″ – NYTimes

Juliet turned me onto this – great stuff.  I love being able to look at how design evolves – how it infects and affects culture.













25.Feb.2010 Colored Pencils

I love finding creativity everywhere.

Trees as Colored Pencils

10.Feb.2010 Busted: Another “Consumer-Generated Ad” Myth

An interesting article on user-generated content.

Busted: Another “Consumer-Generated Ad” Myth – Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology.

“There are a lot of things agencies should be worrying about…. But the whole “random consumers are taking over Mad Ave” myth isn’t one of them.

09.Feb.2010 The Bing Solution

Google Search Story – “The Bing Solution”

03.Feb.2010 Dedicated to Winston and Julia

For the first time, I am being compelled to censor my personal beliefs. On my own blog. This bums me out. It may be the “right” thing to do politically — but I am having a really hard time thinking it’s ok for me personally.

In honor of that:

29.Jan.2010 Joy and Success

I came across this post on American Copywriter and it’s so in line with a conversation I’ve been having with my sister. A great TED video – via a funny delivery guy: “Wait, what’s that you say? I don’t have to get excited about finally getting client approval on work that they limited and I know to be mediocre? Um, sweet.”

22.Jan.2010 New HBO.com launches

The new site emphasizes community + video – and is simply gorgeous. More and more sites are going to feature video like this – front and center.
HBO.com

According to Creativity:
The Flash-based destination seeks to provide viewers with a deeper level of engagement with its shows: “The site features high quality streaming video, including clips and trailers that can be viewed in full screen resolution, an enhanced, easy-to-access schedule that includes HBO HD and HBO On Demand programming and more sophisticated community and sharing capabilities. Viewers also get their own personal dashboard by which they can bookmark clips, discussions and get the heads up on new content they might be interested in.”

21.Jan.2010 FreshBump Awards

Another great tweet from Juliet: