Osama bin Laden, also known as Usama bin Laden, Usama bin Ladin, Ussamah Bin Ladin and Oussama Ben Laden, is no more. But like many notorious people, OBL was used in many ads and will probably continue to do so. He often functions as a metaphor for something that’s evil or someone that’s incredibly hard […]
He’s a very talented illustrator with great passion for what he does. Peterson Joseph, also known as ‘Leaky Penny’, was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and went to study Illustration and Design at Dawson College there. He now lives in Toronto, where makes fantastic energetic illustrations, inspired by music such as jazz and hip […]
I suppose April 2 is a good day to look back on the ‘not-so-serious’ announcements made yesterday, although most of them where made pretty seriously. ` LinkedIn The business-oriented social networking site filled the usual ‘People You May Know’ with some rather unusual names. Playmobile Apple Store This might actually have a chance of succeeding, […]
Listening to the old internet dail-up sound definitely takes me back to a time, not so long ago (10 years?) where I had to ask my parents every time if I could go on the internet. The computer would use the telephone line, so we couldn’t receive any phonecalls (and to be honest, I for one […]
Meet Luke Sullivan. Ad geek and an award-winning copywriter. Luke has been writing since about 6th grade and worked for agencies like Fallon McElligott and The Martin Agency. He is now CD at GSDM in ‘good ol’ Austin’. He wrote the bestselling advertising guide ‘Hey Whipple, Squeeze This’ back in 1998, a book now in third […]
Maybe I’m just being grumpy here but I can use a good rant since I’m getting really really tired from seeing the same faded faux Polaroid aesthetics all over again. All I see is old timey photoshopped images. I can understand people are trying to be cute but just because it looks ‘vintage’ and ‘antique’ […]
Most ideas jump into our brains at unexpected times, at unexpected places. (Having dinner at 6′ is an idea, and it’s one that occurs at an expected time and expected place but that’s not the kind of idea I mean. I’m talking big, honkin’ ideas.) The point is, creative ideas can’t be forced out (or […]
Sharp is his pencil and modest are his words: ‘I don’t brag unless it’s mandatory.’ With his head in the clouds, Chandra Wijaya Tan is about to graduate in Advertising at the London School of Public Relations in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has work experience at Y&R Jakarta and does freelancing (although he says this is […]
Despite having left advertising school only this year, Stefan van den Boogaard and Tim Arts (blue cap) have already got some awards bagged, including the Business to Business at the New York Advertising Festival. They work at the Belgian agency Mortierbrigade. This Q&A is with Tim, who functions as an Art Director and also has […]
GT5 has some flaws and pointless extra’s but the passion and experience of racing it’s about is brilliant and unmatched. Al right, let’s start of by saying that I wrote this review during the loading times of GT5. It becomes really annoying. I’ve kinda red the manual 15 times as well by now. My 3 […]
