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Email out, direct mail back in

douglaslowell wrote 1 month ago: OK, for those photographers out there who didn’t believe me when I said creatives hated email … more →

Tags: Adbase sucks, Photographers

Let's Get All Ancient Greek

douglaslowell wrote 2 months ago: I couldn’t sleep last night, so I started reading the ancient Greek philosopher, Parmenides. P … more →

Anything change recently?6 comments

douglaslowell wrote 2 months ago: So here’s something I’ve learned in a new way recently. It’s that we, the advertis … more →

Tags: agency change, agency value, Attik, Fallon, Goodby

Creative Class vs Artist Class?9 comments

idbranding wrote 4 months ago: Interesting article by D.K. Row in today’s Oregonian about the dilemma of artists in Portland. … more →

Tags: advertising, Artists, Branding, Creative Class

A Pantheon of Ancestors2 comments

idbranding wrote 7 months ago: Every once in a while it’s important to pay tribute to the ancestors who cleared and leveled t … more →

Tags: branding ancestors, branding pantheon, giants of branding

Could this be the next model of branding?3 comments

dennishahn wrote 8 months ago:   We at ID Branding are constantly in pursuit of breakthrough paradigms on how the world understands … more →

Tags: brand culture, Brilliant thinking, misguided work, Trends, Branding, Brand, new branding model, twitter, Unified Field Theory

Truth is weirder than science fiction4 comments

idbranding wrote 8 months ago: So, not sure what y’all think about the Sci Fi Channel changing its name to Syfy, but I gotta … more →

Tags: syfy, Sci-Fi Channel, Sci-Fi, naming

The tired old big idea

idbranding wrote 10 months ago: I was reading the philosophy section of the Cole and Weber United web site and it reminded me of thi … more →

Tags: advertising, brand culture, Branding, The Big Idea, small ideas

Who you doing?2 comments

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: From the Facebook page OK, ad agencies, media buyers, and clients. What don’t you get about co … more →

Tags: brand culture, misguided work, Toyota, Advertising Age, saved by zero, Ad Age, The Simpsons

That's what I'm saying

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: Robert Rasmussen Robert Rasmussen, the executive creative director at R/GA, just moved over to Bartl … more →

Tags: Interactive, RGA, Agency of the Future, BBH, Wieden & Kennedy, Mckinney

We're not an interactive agency2 comments

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: I once was, but I got better. As one of the founders of Paris France, an interactive agency in Portl … more →

Tags: What we're not, Graphic Design, creative revolution, Interactive Agency, digital agency, advertising agency, RGA, branding agency, Agency of the Future

Creative Revolution No. 35 comments

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: Or, We’re Not an Ad Agency, Part 2. Brian Collins Brian Collins, the ex-ECD of Ogilvy’s … more →

Tags: brand culture, What we're not, Ad Agencies, Advertsing, Graphic Design, creative revolution

We're not an ad agency3 comments

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been in advertising for the last 20 years – at least the way I define advertising. … more →

Tags: What we're not, advertising, new advertising model, Ad Agencies, Creatives

We're not a branding firm1 comment

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: Given my recent (minor) mishap with a motorcycle I’ve had a fair amount of time to contemplate … more →

Tags: What we're not, brand culture, Branding, branding firms, scabs, New Agency Model, Landor, FutureBrand, Interbrand

Artist or Designer..or both1 comment

brandstrategist wrote 1 year ago: As I sat through a lively group of architects, artists, industrial designers, and craftsman argue th … more →

Tags: Trends, Design, Karim Rashid, Frank Lloyd Wright, Artist, designer, mass production, manufacturing, show pdx

Two Households, Both Alike In Dignity

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: In-house creative departments – now that’s a delicate subject. We’ve had great rel … more →

Tags: The Client-Agency Marriage, in-house creative, In-house Agencies, In-House Design, agency client relationships

Barbara, You're Wrong and Right

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: Sorry, Barbara Lippert of Adweek, but your somewhat simplistic review of the first two “teaser … more →

Tags: brilliant work, Adweek, Crispin, Microsoft, Bill Gates, jerry seinfeld, Barbara Lippert

Bueller...? Bueller...?

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: Today Dennis and I met with a really really sharp senior strategist who used to work at, among other … more →

Tags: advertising, Branding, Interactive, Design, bill bernbach, David Ogilvy, Howard Gossage, Anomaly, Crispin

Is Your Relationship Retarded?

idbranding wrote 1 year ago: Developmentally speaking, of course. Are the humans who comprise your client-agency relationship ope … more →

Tags: The Client-Agency Marriage, Agency Relationships, bad agency, bad client, Client, client relationships, client agency relationship, Developmental, lehman brothers


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