As an adman and a man, David Abbott was the man. And this memo that's just resurfaced had confirmed that — as if there was any doubt in the first place.
The memo's been doing the rounds on Twitter and Creative Review published a piece about it on their blog.
The memo was given to them by Paul Cohen, now a creative director at Adam&EveDDB, but previously an art director at AMV BBDO in the mid-2000s. He was given the memo in hard copy form by Rob Oliver, a senior ar[Read More]
Left alone, unharnessed, unappreciated, or underwear-clad-basement-dwelling-lone-wolfman-influenced creative energy may gradually erode your sanity. Step away from the FAIL compilation videos and get it together, man. No, lady, five more cats will not fill that creative void. Okay, so maybe the world appreciates a Tumblr page like this, this or even this, but [Read More]
I feel kind of uncomfortable every day when I wake up.
It’s because of The Internet.
How good I am at my job depends on how well I can navigate that thing to make something interesting out of what it offers. Something compelling enough to get its attention for a short while. Something useful enough for its cynical citizens. Something innovati[Read More]
I currently work at Trunk Club, a men’s outfitting service in Chicago. In the simplest of explanations, we help guys look and dress awesome. When I started, the company was just over 100 people and we very much considered ourselves a start up. Hardly any tech product to show for. Now, just over a year later, we are closing in on 500 employees, opening severa[Read More]
I am currently working on a small team at Beyond in San Francisco to design an app for Google. After the discovery phase, I led the team and client through various ideation and sketching workshops to help refine features for the app. We just finished the site map and feature set and are now moving into the proto[Read More]
Think about the person you want to be in three years. I'm not talking about your lifeplan here. Just the medium-term future. Three years from now. Do you have a clear picture of who that person is, what job they have, what they stand for? If not, your only job is to figure that out. Leave this room immediately and go do that.
But let's say you do. There are only three things that are standing between you and being that person.
I hate to tell you this, but the first one is luck[Read More]
Any Blazing Saddles fan should know that reference. As the townspeople attempt to make a duplicate of Rock Ridge in one night, Reverend Johnson says, “Do we have the strength to pull off this mighty task in one night...or are we just jerking off?”
That phrase has been running round and round in my head for the last few months, and it happens every time I see an ad filled with hyperbole and platitudes.
As you can imagine, I’m hearing that phrase a lot.
Three years ago I was working from home as a freelancer, I was busy as could be working away. One night after a rather long coding session I sat back and was checking out twitter. It was about 2am and as I was catching up with my feed I had a realization.
I know all of these people, but do I actually know them?
It hit me. I am part of a community of designers and developers, who I follow around the web, places like Stackoverflow, Github, Twitter and elsewhere, but I d[Read More]
It's this one, I want the post and the site down for abusive defamation and stolen intellectual property. And the manipulative abuse is uncontro...[Read More]
Robert Malloy / Creative Agency Human Design Acquires a Bunch of “Bad People”
Funnily enough Human has quite the BAD reputation of not paying its Denver conteactors…...[Read More]
please / Human Adds Account Director Paige Epsky
Hey friends this site is basically dead, want to spill more tea for us about Human? Would love to know more....[Read More]
Daniel / Human Adds Account Director Paige Epsky
Human hires a woman. That IS big news. I look forward to her scathing Glassdoor review in 2 weeks....[Read More]
John / Human Adds Account Director Paige Epsky
Tell her “good luck!” Working with a bunch of greedy, untalented men who love taking credit for other people’s hard work!!...[Read More]
