by Luke Sullivan | Apr 20, 2015 | Advertising, Creativity, Digital, Education
I love advertising competitions because they feature work I might not’ve seen but for the shows. The new Communication Arts Interactive Annual 21 just came out and I have done my readers the courtesy of picking out the top five projects featured in the magazine....
by Luke Sullivan | Oct 21, 2014 | Advertising, Creativity, Digital, Education
I once read that smart companies should give away what they know. I didn’t get it at first but the more I read, the more I saw how these “generous brands” actually attract paying customers. Cool. So, with that in mind, here is a condensed version of...
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 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 | Jan 20, 2014 | Advertising, Creativity, Digital, General Crankiness
Open on Scene I: (In front of Hilton at SXSW Austin) I’m on the sidewalk, minding my own business, inside my bubble. My taxi pulls up and just as I’m about to hop in, I’m attacked. Some Jesus-y type of person is in my face telling me how his god is better than my god...