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 […]
1. Zoom in and out on your subject in your mind. 2. Take up the perspective of an ant and a bird. 3. Look at your subject as if you were a priest/astronaut/prostitute. 4. Examine your subject wearing pink glasses. 5. Lie down on the floor. 6. Hold your breath for 30 seconds. 7. Put […]
Eelco de Winter worked at Result DDB, FHV/BBDO and &KoenseSeverein with clients like KPN, Sony, Fujitsu Siemens and Rabobank. He now works at Kaaps, a video production company in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as a strategist and production manager. At Kaaps, he tries to convey marketing strategics into emotions. Kaaps works for both charities and commercial companies. Could […]
After studying at the Krakowska Akademia in Poland, Peter Kowalski started Wordboner.com. He uses it as platform to sell his fantastic typographical wordplays, as tshirts and a few other things, such as stickers and iPhone cases. Tees aside, his promotion of the website is pretty clever as well, using various social media sites. Time to […]
First in the Q&A series is Ivan Raszl. He has many years working experience in the advertising field, having previously worked in Hungary and Bahrain in positions as Graphic Designer, Packaging Designer, Art Director, Creative Director and General Manager. Now he works as an online business consultant and is the founder and editor of sites […]
