by Luke Sullivan | Oct 13, 2014 | Advertising, Education
Courtesy of a site called No Ad School by Jared (no relation to Subway) I give you this nice listing of good ad blogs. I was in no way hurt or offended he neglected to include this humble blog. Didn’t bother me. At all....
by Luke Sullivan | Sep 15, 2014 | Advertising, Commentary, Digital, Education, Problem Finding
I just finished reading a really good book, a new title from Warren Berger, who’s been writing about the ad industry for a long time. Smart guy. Book’s titled A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. What Berger calls “inquiry” or...
by Luke Sullivan | Aug 25, 2014 | Advertising, Creativity, General Crankiness
In 1983 – for you English Lit majors, 30 years ago – I joined the creative department of a small agency in Richmond as hire #10 or so. I went on to work at medium-sized and large agencies, but my time at the Martin Agency I remember with particular fondness. For...
by Luke Sullivan | Aug 17, 2014 | Advertising, Creativity, Digital, Education, Radio
The world today is full of pain and bad news. In the streets of Aleppo, of Gaza, and Ferguson, Missouri, bad shit is happening. Which is why the world needs a really stupid blog like this one. It’s stupid mostly because I wrote it. But it’s also stupid because the...
by Luke Sullivan | Jun 17, 2014 | Advertising, Creativity, Digital, Social Media
Full disclosure: I pretty much copied and pasted all this content from various sites around the web, some from adweek, some from Cannes. Please do not sue me as I’m basically a very nice person. SURRENDER YOUR SAY Overview: Tourette Syndrome is widely misunderstood....
by Luke Sullivan | May 9, 2014 | Advertising, Commentary, Creativity, Education
A couple of weeks ago, a freshman ad student here at SCAD — Haley Kochersberger — contacted me and said she’d like to interview me for a “writing assignment.” I thought it was just one of those assignments students sometimes have, you...