Taking a Bullet, Gaining a Cause: James S. Brady Dies at 73

Mr. Brady, the White House press secretary who was wounded in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, championed tighter regulations from his wheelchair.

Volvo: Proud sponsor of these guys

Advertising Agency: Grey, Sydney, Australia
Creative Director: Chad Mackenzie
Art Director: Adam Frazer
Copywriter: Daniel Staudinger
Account Director: Justine Leong
Planner: Harrison Steinhart
Designer: Cohan Banfield
Senior Account Manager: Matt Parker
Account Executive: Amy Young

Chegg Finds Partner to Handle Its Textbooks

The move by the textbook rental company is meant to free itself up to continue building out its digital operations.

DealBook: Gannett Said Near Deal to Buy Rest of Cars.com for $1.8 Billion

The Gannett Company is near a deal to buy the 73 percent of Cars.com that it does not already own for $1.8 billion, valuing the website at nearly $2.5 billion.



Advertising: Raising Awareness About Girls’ Struggles

Girls Inc. is starting a campaign to raise money and support for underprivileged girls in North America.



Rosie Animal Adoption: Tinderdoption

Advertising Agency: DentsuBos, Montréal, Canada
Creative Directors: Roger Gariépy, Hugo Léger
Art Director: Simon Rufiange
Copywriter: Xavier Blais
Project manager: Gabrielle Harvey
Motion: Emmanuel Mazeron
Sound: Mathieu Morin, Studio La Majeure
Published: April 2014

36 Flamboyant Workout Clothes – From Mermaid-Inspired Activewear to Heroic Workout Attire (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re looking to standout while working up a sweat at the gym, then these flamboyant workout clothes will definitely give you some flashy options of what to wear during cardio or yoga….

Graham Is Not Slowing Down After Sale of The Washington Post

Donald E. Graham sold The Washington Post last year, but continues to remain busy by running his business enterprise, Graham Holdings.



Rick Perlstein’s ‘The Invisible Bridge’ Draws Criticism

Rick Perlstein’s “The Invisible Bridge” has been accused of sloppy scholarship, improper attribution and plagiarism.



Clight: Drinkable rings

Advertising Agency: +Castro Innovation House?, Argentina
Innovation Directors: Nicolás Pimentel?, Pedro Saleh?Innovation
Director: Rulo Gowland?
Creative Director: Tomás Quartino ?
Project Leader: Lucia Labougle
Project Executive: Florencia Arrizabalaga
Executive Producer: Fernanda Adriano
Creatives: Darío Rodríguez, Francesco Vicenzi, Martina Sasso?
Designer: Agustín Castro?

DC Shoes "Cyrcle" (2014) :30 (USA)

Stardust put together this trippy video for DC Shoes starring graffiti/artist collective CYRCLE. I’m digging the animated camo.

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Pandora Weighs Talk Radio as It Targets More Listeners in Cars


Pandora Media, the biggest internet radio company, is considering expanding its programming beyond music to formats such as sports, news and talk as the service becomes more available in cars and can attract listeners on the road.

“Music’s an important piece of radio listening in the car, but if there’s a place where spoken word is also equally, and more important really, it’s in the car,” Pandora Chief Financial Officer Michael Herring said. He said it’s too early to specify the content or timing.

Pandora, which makes money from ad sales and ad-free subscriptions, is looking to autos as one way to jump start growth as the number of active users stalls amid competition with Spotify, Apple and Google. The company’s active listeners grew 7.5% to 76.4 million users in the second quarter compared with a rise of 30% a year earlier.

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Froot Loops: Couch

Advertising Agency: Krispr Communications, Chicago, USA
Executive Creative Director: Steve Slivka
Creative Director: Aaron Noffsinger
Producer: Christina O’Rourke
Director: James Haworth
Production Company: The Sweet Shop
Edit: White House
Audio: Another Country
Color: The Mill
Animation: Nathan Love
Planner: Kevin Gilbert
Published: July 2014

Ariel: Don't wear your food

Advertising Agency: BBR Saatchi & Saatchi, Israel
Executive Creative Director: Nadav Pressman
Creative Director: Amir Arieli
Art Director: Shirley Bahar
Copywriter: Idan Levy
Account Group Head: Hagai Liran
Account Supervisor: Lee Brin
Account Executive: Vicki Tseitlin
Production: Dorit Gvili
Planning: David Kosmin

Latvian Society of the Blind: We need your support

El Tejocote Identity

Voici El Tejocote, une marque produisant des produits à base de fruits, tels que des confitures, fruits confis ou encore sirops. La communication de cette marque ainsi que les différents packagings composent l’identité d’El Tejocote. L’entreprise récolte ses fruits elle-même puis les transforme en produits traditionnels.

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W2O Group Hits Every Social Media Note for Western Digital

Here’s one that the traditionalists in our audience will love: a social media campaign!

As the agency itself tells us, hard disk manufacturer/W2O Group client Western Digital is “a usually conservative tech company” that preferred to stay strictly within its own comfort zone in terms of messaging.

However, surveys showed that the client’s customers cared more about privacy and security of data than anything else–so they went a little edgy with the #KeepItPersonal” (“Some Things Shouldn’t Be Shared”) campaign. Its purpose is to promote a new cloud storage offering that would allegedly help prevent those security slip-ups that everyone wants to avoid. Inevitably, the conversation turned to sex tapes…

Here’s the inaugural Facebook post, which tied the campaign to a movie titled, appropriately, Sex Tape.

Future posts focused less on the racy and more on the incredibly embarrassing.

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Misha Collins asks writers to work for free, gets ass handed to him.

Are you familiar with Misha Collins? I wasn’t until today. I don’t watch much TV. But apparently he’s on a CW show called Supernatural. He also has a yearly charity event called GISHWHES, or the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt The World Has Ever Seen. This event, by the way, started as a publicity stunt to help Collins try to win the People’s Choice Award.

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Gitanos Studio: Grandma

Cheaper than any plastic surgery.
The world needs retouching.

Advertising Agency: Gitanos, Costa Rica
Creative Director / Copywriter: Carla Pravisani / Amigurumi Lab
Art Director: Daniel Montiel / Gitanos
Published: August 2014

Gitanos Studio: Earthman

We fix what others always do wrong.
The world needs retouching.

Advertising Agency: Gitanos, Costa Rica
Creative Director / Copywriter: Carla Pravisani / Amigurumi Lab
Art Director: Daniel Montiel / Gitanos
Published: August 2014