by Luke Sullivan | May 14, 2016 | Advertising, Digital, Education, Interviewing
(Previously published post, reprinted for those gearing up to go interview or take an internship/job.) People? Quiet, people. Okay, your substitute teacher today is Mr. Carroll. You remember Mr. Carroll. He visited us in January? I expect you to give him the same...
by Luke Sullivan | Apr 3, 2016 | Advertising, Commentary, Education, General Crankiness
Upfront, I need to make clear, this isn’t about most CDs and recruiters. It’s about that minority who, for some sad weird reason, take a sort of pleasure in belittling young ad people and enjoy making students feel bad about themselves and their work. I wouldn’t be...
by Luke Sullivan | Feb 21, 2016 | Advertising, Education
This week at the Savannah College of Art & Design we held our annual Career Fair. As a professor, I had the privilege of watching our smart kids fine tune their books, fret over their resumes, and gossip in the hallways about which agencies they were going to...
by Luke Sullivan | Jan 10, 2016 | Advertising, Creativity, Education
These days, Mark Fenske, is a bad-ass professor of advertising at the Brand Center at VCU in Richmond. But back when I was in the ad biz, Mark was a copywriter at Wieden + Kennedy and he was bad-ass then, too. (Digression #1: And when he wasn’t being a bad-ass...
by Luke Sullivan | Dec 24, 2015 | Radio Reel, Whipple Fifth Edition Radio
I didn’t write this great spot. This spot was written probably 20 years ago by the late great Craig Weiss of Minneapolis. Still sounds like it could air today.