Richmond 1985: Life at a Small Agency and a Really Small Agency.
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...World Stops as Area Blogger Unveils New Look, Greatest Hits List.
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...My fave winners in the latest CA Interactive Annual.
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....A Delightful End to My Week. A Clever Assignment from a SCAD Design Prof Results in Sweet Gift from SCAD Ad Student.
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...Ad Coach’s Post-Game Locker Room Speech
Hey everybody. Particularly you ad students who were in the national ad competition last week: Professor Novak sent me an email last week giving me the results of the competition you all went to last week. Like him, I was truly bummed. Certainly not as bummed as you...
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