In a recent post I noted the reproduction problem in design and advertising and I used a light bulb as a visual example. When I came across this light bulb by Anaïs Met Den Ancxt (the name sounds like a mythological character in Tintin) I remembered it and what was problematic with the last post. [...]
I’m writing the research proposal for my dissertation right now, I definitely shouldn’t be writing here but I have to share some thoughts. My dissertation will broadly discuss the relevance of rhetoric in modern advertising. Being an old rhetoric scholar myself I obviously think it has relevance but the more I study I’m coming to [...]
BBH’s graduate recruitment video
I applied for 5 graduate schemes in total. For readers that aren’t familiar with graduate schemes it’s basically a trainee programme, paid education, starting form the bottom working yourself from a junior account handler or from a junior account planner to the stars. I want to be a planner. Applicants put in [...]
My biggest passions in life; food, restaurants and wine are seldom connoted with ideas. Sure, innovative dishes at the gastro-chemistry-labs around the world, but they’re all things on the plate. Grant Achatz of Alinea in Chicago speaks a few short minutes about the design solutions in his restaurants that came from problems that needed to [...]
Because of the good news yesterday I’m having my Monday today. I had the saddest feeling in years a few hours ago, wandering around Waterloo trying to find a damn place that could sell me oatmeal. Unsuccessfully and it nearly ruined my day, I haven’t had a proper breakfast for a week.
The feeling, was a [...]
I was loving it even before Method Man puts a giant paintbrush in Redmans mouth.
Adidas is celebrating their 60th birthday next year. This houseparty kicks it off.
Via Thinking for a Living I found Jack Cheng, a former AD at Anomaly and copywriter at SS+K in New York. He quit his job just to pursue his ideas and to work on projects he liked. One of the projects he liked was explaining in an easy way why he had done this. The [...]
When I travelled back from Sweden via Copenhagen last weekend, Kastrup Airport were filled in the early morning with people completely dressed in white. I had heard something the night before about a kind of parties that were being arranged around Europe called Sensation White but I had no idea that people were actually flying [...]