Intern Intel: Email from a happy SCAD student. 2 Jul 2013 | 12:42 am

Alison Turner is one of our wonderful students here at SCAD in Savannah. Though she came here to study art direction or copywriting, she’s discovering a love of all things social-and-interactive along...

Givin’ a big-ass presentation in Kansas City Thursday, June 6th. See you there? 30 May 2013 | 06:46 pm

Ad School Ain’t Like School School. (Or “Problem Finding VS Problem Solving.”) 29 Apr 2013 | 11:59 pm

Here’s the thing. I went to a School School but now I teach at an Ad School. And it’s really different. At School School, you study the books they assign you, do the homework they give you, take the t...

“It’s not a principle until it costs you money.” 27 Mar 2013 | 09:23 pm

The quotation above is from the famous Bill Bernbach. I think it is one of the smartest things I’ve ever heard and is such a great way to truly describe what the word “principle” stands for. The best ...

Some really good sources to follow for cool ad/web content. 5 Mar 2013 | 04:21 am

Yours truly is happy to be included on a list from Forbes — “The Top 100 Global Agencies That Know Social Media and Google.” Full disclosure, however. Am no longer a global agency. Sad to report the c...

Non-Advertising Essay: The Most Interesting Night I Had In All Of 2012. 19 Feb 2013 | 10:31 pm

Full disclosure: This isn’t a post about advertising, but it’s a piece of writing I’m proud of just the same. And it actually IS what the title says — the single most interesting night I had all of la...

Actual client comments turned into posters. Plus my worst-client story. 12 Feb 2013 | 08:24 pm

In your career you will hear many very stupid things. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to keep a straight face and not laugh out loud. And this site just posted a nice series of some of th...

SuperBowl XLVII: How to blow $126 grand per second. 5 Feb 2013 | 01:25 am

Everybody’s got their faves from the commercials on the Super Bowl. But let’s talk about the bottom feeders. (Okay, fine. As for favorites, mine happened to end up pretty far down the list of the infa...

Recent interview from some nice folks in Romania who were kind enough to translate it back into English. 30 Jan 2013 | 09:41 pm

  Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile. Cardinal sin of bloggers, not to create new content. That, and sucking. But anyhoo, here’s an interview I did a while back with some nice folks in Romania. Here was...

An e-mail I came THIS close to sending to a client just to let her know what her micro-managing felt like. 18 Dec 2012 | 11:15 pm

TO: Luke Sullivan, Creative Director FROM: Communications Manager Please move the 56th pixel on the 233rd row about a 64th of a inch to the left. Also, the dot in the “I” should come down one font siz...