Bored Kids with an 8mm Camera. (Excerpt from an as-yet-unpublished book.)
In 1992, I started scribbling down notes about my family history. 18 years later I have finished the project, and it’s now a memoir of growing up in the ’50s and ’60s with my five brothers in a big house in Rochester, Minnesota. I’m proud of...The Home For Tired Old Ideas
The gravel crunches under the tires of our agency’s rented Camry as we pull in front of the little building that bakes in the hot retirement sun of Florida. We have arrived at the Home for Tired Old Advertising Ideas and Visuals. Here in this forlorn little...Area Woman Has Direct Connection to “Mad Men.”
You’d think being an ad geek I would TiVo every episode of Mad Men, but for the life of me I just can’t stay with it. The show feels like a wardrobe budget in search of story. (Gimme The Wire any day.) The other thing that bugs me is the work that Draper’s agency...My Favorite Writing Teacher.
Most poetry sucks. Well, most everything sucks when you get right down to it; most advertising, most TV shows, most novels. But poetry? Ugh! If I see one more impenetrable little block of word salad in the New Yorker, I’m gonna need someone to hold my hair while I...
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Luke Sullivan
Author, speaker, and ad veteran available to recharge, reinvigorate, and refocus marketing, advertising, and branding firms.
I give a hugely energetic series of presentations on innovation, creativity, branding, and marketing. I spent 32 years in the trenches of advertising (at agencies like Martin, GSD&M, and Fallon) and I’ve put everything I learned into my book, Hey Whipple, Squeeze This. But for me nothing beats taking the message out and speaking to living breathing audiences at clients, agencies, and conferences. You can book me on the button below.
