Old ways of working will die with the old skool

Like the sun will rise in the morning advertising has at last woken up to something that was said by myself and Sam, oh, some 4 years ago.     This was that the current working model of AD and CW as creative teams is a bit pony these days and that teams of a [...]

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Leo Burnett Dubai & a frustrated chicken in Kuwait

  I’ve recently been completely bowled over by quite an amazing piece of ‘on a shoe string’ work that has come from Leo Burnett Dubai. I’ve been harsh on the region in the past for a number of reasons but since following this campaign I’ve seen that great and fun ways of doing stuff can [...]

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Goodbye Doobye

My 72 hours in Dubai came to an end and I landed at Heathrow feeling like I’d just woken up from a prolonged dream. A dream in which I’d taken pictures. Tomatoes are pretty cool: But if you eat too many, you gotta get to the throne, pronto (as I found out): Supermarkets in Dubai [...]

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Distributing Shock

 I’m quite late to comment on Marilyn Manson, he’s been around for years and everyone has mentioned that he’s a marketing genius but I quite fancied a brain dump on him. I’ve been watching his videos of late and using some of them as stimulus in certain briefings as they really capture the dark side [...]

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Is This What We’ve Become?

  Shopping to live? 

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Sony: Like.No.Othe..Perhaps Not

While having my morning fuel, I stumbled across this at Engadget, a press ad for Sony’s DSC-T2 camera – side by side with an ad for Apple’s previous generation iPod Nano. Interesting…

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If We’re All Alone Aren’t We In This Together?

Human beings are both intrinsically tribal and hypocritical. What we criticize in others is often a reflection of flaws we see in our own characters that we choose to ignore. And this post is about that very subject. The advertising community, like every other human community is essentially a collection of tribes. I could go [...]

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