Flying Away This May

I got a job! Ahem..what I meant to say is I GOT A FRIKKIN’ JOB!!Sorry about that. I actually meant to say that I’ve got a job that I’m happy to take, a challenge even.As many of you may know, since September-ish I’ve been looking for a start in adland, something that I could sink [...]

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The Republic Will Be Branded

AdGrads is now live on Brand Republic. Check us out.

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How To Be Cool

A bit of an ambitious title huh? Yeah I think so too. But see, I’ve been thinking a lot about cool; not the word, maybe not even the concept, but the connotation. What is cool? It’s all so subjective right? But I think cool is pretty closely related to confidence. They even go together well [...]

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Race Is a Four Letter Word

I’ve thought about writing about this taboo topic for a while, but refrained because I was being a bit chicken. Two things made me do it. Sir Charles wrote a post about it, and this thread on the BR forums. In writing a reply to that thread, I got a little of out of hand [...]

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A Good Excuse

Yes yes yes, we haven’t been writing that much recently, and no it’s not the yo-yo weather that’s the cause. I’ve been hard at work trying to come up with a better way of getting all career-related stuff in one area, just in time for the mad season that is graduate recruitment.
So now I can [...]

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Dark Linings and Silver Clouds

It feels like I’m perennially building up the ‘blog about’ list and always leaving it to grow into a colossus that needs slaying. So from today I’m going to give the blog a little bit of time everyday and see if that works.
First off, I applied and got into (woo hoo!) Omnicom’s Summer School. So [...]

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Omnicom Summer School

The deadline for the Omnicom Summer School has been extended to the 7th of July. So get your applications done and send ‘em off to Steve.
More here.
Whack your questions in the comments.

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I’m No Hack

Following Sam’s Saatchi shenanigans and Saatchi’s petty reaction, I’ve had a few emails asking about hacking M&C Saatchi and how I went about it. Far be it for me to indulge, but if you insist.

I was on my placement year at Leo Burnett working on McDonalds and thoroughly enjoying it. However my time was nearing [...]

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No Saatchi

Someone once said ‘You can’t treat every situation like life or death, cause you’ll die a lot of times’.
That’s some advice I should heed. I tell everyone who emails us asking about getting into advertising that rejection is part and parcel of the process and you should never ever take it personally, because they don’t [...]

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A Sandwich of Suggestions

This is one of those posts where everything that we’ve missed out on doing the last couple of days is rolled into one. Like a sandwich, get it?
Anyway, let’s begin:
First a reminder to anyone interested in going to snap up their tickets for PSFK’s London Conference, many big names and some not so big [...]

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