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Car Dealers Are Great. Car Dealers Suck.

Having recently bought a car myself, I can attest that one’s experience at a car dealership can make or break everything. No amount of image advertising that ad agencies do can reverse a really bad experience with a dealer who tries to screw with you or a salesman who doesn’t[...]

H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken “It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.” Original post by Quotes of the Day TAGS for this… H. L. Mencken[...]

Missing Pages

I sent around these ads at i-merge, the agency I used to work for, because at that time they really added to the creativity issue we were dealing with. We’ve used the concept in a different context (I blogged about it here) and I really wanted these for keepers. Back[...]

Onion Goes Audio/Visual, Dewars Foots the Bill, Deep Focus Blogs

Watch out, world - the Onion, our news source of choice, is leaping from the written word and taking on CNN with its own newscast: ONN, “faster, harder, scarier and all-knowing.” The Onion’s Sean Mills gets strangely sober in… Published by ScampContinue reading: Onion Goes Audio/Visual, Dewars Foots the Bill,[...]

David Beckham - Emotion In Advertising

The new adidas David Beckham ad broke last night. I think it’s great. Why? Because he’s not afraid to show his emotions. Nothing’s more powerful than genuine emotion (or harder to elicit from sports stars - hats off to 180 Amsterdam for getting it). Makes me wonder why we don’t use emotion more.[...]