Category Archives: of the year

of the year – blogs

2009/01/02 – 12:04 am

This being a blog, the last roundup of the year is, blogs. The blogs. I have about 200 blogs in my RSS feed and picking a few is hard. So I’m doing the list a bit differently, in categories.

1. The Tumblrs. This year wasn’t the year of the Twitter (but next year will be), it [...]

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of the year – campaign

2008/12/30 – 9:44 pm

Campaign of the year.
This year introduced me to German writers Hesse, Mann, Sebald (worked and lived in England) and Nietzsche. The more literature I read, the less impressed I get, and the less confident I get that I can do something alike. It’s the same thing with advertising, the more I study and practice, the [...]

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of the year – agency

2008/12/28 – 2:39 pm

Next in line are the agencies. Quite a disappointing year with few agencies doing anything really cool, they seemed to be busy discussing to be or not to believe in digital. The question feels irrelevant right now when they can’t even do inspiring advertising.
But, drum machine loop, agency of the year:

1. Droga5. Couldn’t do anything [...]

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of the year – brands

2008/12/27 – 3:05 pm

Welcome to the recap. I’ll be doing a couple of lists of the best things that 2008 had to offer; the best campaigns, agencies and blogs. But first out is brands of the year:

1. Barack Obama. On top of everyone’s list but is nonetheless the only brand this year that changed the world. Some iconic [...]

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