Tag Archive | "Differentiation"
Why Do You Take Photographs?
Call it our passion but if you’re anything like me, it’s mostly taken for granted until discovering a void. If I'm selling my value and forget my "WHY", then my cause is lost. Here's me starting with "WHY".
Continue reading...The Noise of New
Friday, September 3, 2010
That will never happen again. It’s easy to say, “So what” or “Thank God”. But my point is that I use that experience - that experience that will never happen again - ever day whether I’m behind the camera or computer.
Continue reading...Flashing the Middle Finger at the Dreaded Middle
Sunday, August 29, 2010
I’m screwed. The flight is full. I need to go where I’m going but there are only middle seats. Isle seat gate keepers refuse to look me in the eye. Creativity has a middle seat and as with airlines, you never want to be in it.
Continue reading...Talking with Advertising Creative Director – Mike Allen
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I had a chance to talk with Creative Director and Copywriter Mike Allen about his career in Advertising and get some of his thoughts on branding and creativity. Here are 10 minutes from that discussion.
Continue reading...Everything is Social: How Creative Brands Can Earn Social Equity
Friday, April 23, 2010
There. I’ve summed up conventional advertising in one paragraph, and brought it into the crowded, abundant, consumer centric internet years. Now it’s all about ME, keep your damn interruption marketing to yourself, I’ll find you when I want something you got. Unless ….
Continue reading...Creative Denial, Anger, Bargaining, & Acceptance
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Lately, creative professionals are suffering the heartbreak of a fading uniqueness and coping with the pressure to add value in other ways. Clay Shirky gave his first TED talk in 2005. His institution v. collaboration presentation must have appeared abstract to more folks then than now, nevertheless, Clay’s talk hasn’t faded in value for those of us trying to recover our bearings in a once familiar profession.
Continue reading...These Tools Are Insane
Monday, December 14, 2009
In the late 80’s the Apple Mac II taught us to set typography. Immediately anyone could set type. We didn’t hardly notice when the stat camera darkroom was reclaimed for storage, or when you’re local type house became a Mailbox Etc. or a Postal Instant Press (similar to Kinko’s). Creative destruction is no longer a concept but a lifestyle.
Continue reading...- We Don’t Want Regular Anything
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Think out of the box. We don’t want ordinary. Push it to the limit. Create something extraordinary. Differentiate yourself. All instill fear of not measuring up. It's also meaningless if read a la carte.
Continue reading...Don’t Bore Me with Genius
Monday, October 19, 2009
The woman’s exceptional; mostly paints oil on canvas. She’s an invention of art school, but failed to graduate because of a hasty yearlong sojourn to Italy. A return to the states was followed by recurrent menial jobs as she continued to paint without gainful discovery. Dull. No combination of adjectives and adverbs would change the more »
Continue reading...Do Different
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
We feel before we think. We do before we feel. If logic follows, we need to do different if we are to think different. This 3 year old "Think Different" ad is a good reminder of what innovation doing different produces.
Continue reading...Video Interviews with Creative Professionals
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