Ad Celebrity Book List: Jay Giesen

Around this time last year, ihaveanidea created an extensive user survey to find out what our community liked and didn’t like about the site, and we used that info to create an all-new ihaveanidea. One of the things we learned is that while most of our users were indifferent about our old Literature section, they [...]

The environmentalists won. Now please go tell the environmentalists

The Green Screen has the mandate to review the best communication for green products and services every month.

Usually, there are about five to ten good pieces to talk about. But this month, I thought I’d make an exception, and talk about just one ad.

Not just any ad. An ad that introduced green to mainstream America.

I am speaking, of course, of the Audi ‘Green Police’ spot that debuted at this year’s Super Bowl.

Retro Super Bowl Thoughts From a Digital Guy

Lincoln Bjorkman
EVP, Executive Creative Director.
Digitas NYC
I turned on Super Bowl XXIV and I stepped into a time machine back to those pre-Bubble years before the turn of the last century. Ah yes, ‘twas was a simpler time. The first half of this retro-Super Bowl was all nostalgia… I kept waiting for those retro team [...]

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Black Turtlenecks & 3D Printing

The Advertising & Design Club of Canada “Directions 2009″

AGENCY PROFILES

TAXI NY
Whenever you read stories and articles about TAXI, one the world’s most successful creative shops and easily Canada’s most globally recognized ad agency, you hear about how the name “TAXI” came about.

BBH New York
One of the first things I notice when stepping off the elevator and onto the 19th floor at BBH is how open and bright the agency felt. I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was until it was pointed out to me. BBH has no ‘corner offices’ or any other rooms that make use of the building’s exterior windows.

StrawberryFrog NY
Once upon a time dinosaurs ruled the earth. These dinosaurs were called global advertising networks. They included specimens like the Bureaucratosaurus, the infamous Egosaurus, and even the legendary Networkosaurus.

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AD CELEBRITY BOOK LIST

EDITOR'S PICK

How to Train Ideas to Come When They’re Called: Notes and Advice for Young People in Advertising PART ONE
In this article, I’m hoping to impart some useful information about advertising ideas and how one arrives at them. I’m hoping this information will bring comfort and peace and a touch more confidence.

How to Train Ideas to Come When They’re Called: Notes and Advice for Young People in Advertising PART TWO
Let’s talk about another process for idea generation. This process isn’t specific to advertising, but it can work very well for what we do. It’s called SCAMPER, and it is attributed to a writer named Bob Eberle.

How to Train Ideas to Come When They’re Called: Notes and Advice for Young People in Advertising PART THREE
What happens if you do something unexpected with your product or your medium or an everyday object? Many years ago, Volkswagen found a way to make the shape of their car say something about thrift in tough economic times.