Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

Overview of the Reflective Judgment Model's Three Developmental Periods

Allow me to humbley and indiscriminately apply this to the conceptual process/creative thinking, in general. I truly believe that the distinction some make between left and right-brain thinkers is a little gray.

Having my own experiences over the years, both professionally and through my blog, I can say that there are some easy to understand guidelines for writing copy listed below. The Metaphor; The Analogy; The Narrative; The Statement; A sample of Groupon's guidelines for writing copy listed below.

Seven months ago I found myself sitting in my underwear at home. (briefs and sandals, but underwear seems more appropriate, and it was a sunny day) I pondered what it would be like to start a company. I walked over to my window and peaked out. I wasn’t looking for anything specific.

Nice interactive choose your adventure, YouTube videos.

Proudly sponsored, as well.

"The future of advertising is no advertising. Communities around brands cannot be sustained without large sums of investment funds, the very antithesis of how a group of people are actually encouraged to gather.

"Many goals set in marketing are unrealistic. They are therefore doomed to failure from the start. Such romantic marketing dreams include sustained growth, brand differentiation, persuasive advertising, profit maximisation, and knowledge management.

"Instead, the value of making web content 'linear' is to present interstitial ads to the 'unique user' between (in this case) list items, or between over-paginated features or web galleries.

RSA Animtes - Sir Ken Robinson's famous TED Talk.

Back in June of last year, I wrote a short bulleted list of coming trends or advancements that I thought would change the communication industry again. In-fact, I thought and still believe that these things will negate some of the Jedi Jargon that perpetuates the industry shucksters today.

"Identity design, for any organization containing more than three people, is the act of diplomatically negotiating personal egos, tastes, and aspirations of various invested individuals against their business needs, their pre-formed expectations, and the constraints of the market place.

"Voted Time Out New York’s Most Creative New Yorker in 2009, Upper East Side artist Borbay has painted on-location around the world, including The Guggenheim, TriBeCa Grand, Woolworth Building, Elaine’s, Chrysler Building, Hancock Tower (Chicago) and San Marco Cathedral (Milan).

N-3D DEMO from aircord on Vimeo.

via Creative Networks→. The multiscreen application on the iPad is made using openFrameworks. The other parts such as the sound reactive examples were made using MaxMSP.

Skateboardanimation from Tilles Singer on Vimeo.

TRI▲NGLE from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

via prePoSTeRoUS

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While reading an article on how Facebook censors images (in this case, a self promotional Ad) that contain nipples, meanwhile mainstream media is running the ad without concern, I noticed the irony within the display ad served right next to the article.

CitID is an ambitious community project where designers world wide are invited to design a logo for their city. They are aiming to collect a unique set of inspiring logos, displaying the various styles and trends in contemporary design all over the world.

THE OBJECTIVE

To bring together two nations that for a long time have been physically close, yet mentally worlds apart.

The new site from Saatchi & Sattchi is looking for solutions to the 60 year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The judges are a panel of Jews and Arabs from the BBR group.

Gestalt.tv

"Disintermediation is one of those interesting words that border on jargon, but it is too useful to abandon.

In my previous post (received well by most, some took it personally), I wrote a little about the problem with gauging new ideas against a set of parameters defined by old ideas and preconceptions--hindering what will be, by what was.

We work in an industry that sells intangibles. Sometimes we call them ideas, other times we call it strategy and more recently,

we call it an innovation. We then try and put it into a box for mass consumption. A trick we probably learned from our clients.

I didn't have a line for this one. Sillystrator, will have to do.

Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

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Credits: Alex Ross painted this picture of Flash, who is character owned by DC comics.

In the continuing debate between Bloggers and Journalists, Murdoch and Google, iPad and Perfect-bound, I find myself reiterating a phrase, having heard it many times over the years within the walls of ad agencies and communication firms, "They don't get it."

If they do, they're spending more money

Retality, a client of ECHO, has a great post on the upcoming transformation of shopping online and in-store.

"At what point does the in-home shopping experience come close to the in-store shopping experience?" Read the entire post here.

via The Birds And The Beasts

Is it a picture, or is it a headline?

What is more important; how it is written or how it looks?

Excited to announce that the latest edition of Drinking With Adholes NYC will be held at Adholes HQ.

If you're entertained by these, please read 2009's or 2007's. 100% of everything that I've ever written, is in english--guaranteed. You can be sure that the list below continues with 100% *accuracy.

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