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...Political Advertising: “Have You No Sense Of Decency, Sir?”
In his book about political advertising, Run The Other Way, author (and friend) Bill Hillsman observed: “Voters are fairly discerning about the difference between attack ads and legitimate contrast advertising, which present a fair-minded (though ultimately...One of our dickweed creatives comes to company Halloween party as me.
Thirty-one goddamn years in the business and you’d think I’d get more respect. Especially from the dickweeds I work with. And then you get this…..dude comes “dressed as me” to Halloween. It’s just mean-spirited and disrespectful, is...Great CDs Are Almost Always Great People, Too.
Recently I posted an article about brutal creative directors. My advice was to get your book out there as fast as you can. Now, if I may, a few words on what I think makes a good creative director. I once read that a coach’s main job is to love his players. I think...
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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.
