Hasta La Creative!

Stan Talks is a library of short videos produced by the Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. This new talk, released last month, features Laura Desmond, founder and CEO of Eagle Vista Partners in Chicago. Desmond is intent on building […]

One of the first challenges a person faces in the advertising business is the need to grow a thick skin. Like yesterday. Sadly, it’s a lesson unlearned by way too many acting professionals, inside and outside of media, marketing, and advertising. According to Suzanne Pope, professor of advertising at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, […]

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Advertising is omnipresent; yet, most people, especially on the receiving end of advertising, have little concept of who and what’s behind it, and no idea how it gets made. There are a handful of schools that endeavor to teach advertising, but most practitioners learn on the job. Because there are thousands of agencies, each with […]

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Even on its worst days, working in an ad agency is still quite fun compared to the dreariness of regular corporate America. That’s the point of this promo website and video for The Creative Circus featuring a fictional company called B.E.I.G.E.

B.E.I.G.E. Recruitment Video from B.E.I.G.E. on Vimeo.

Folks looking to avoid a career in dullsville are invited to attend the Creative Circus open house on September 6.

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Ad Age has breaking news out of Richmond.

Effective Jan. 14, the Richmond, Va.-based VCU Adcenter, founded in 1996, will be called VCU Brandcenter. It also is unveiling a new logo, courtesy of New York-based design firm Collins, as well as a website, www.brandcenter.vcu.edu, created by Interpublic Group of Cos.’ RG/A, New York.

Following lengthy debate, faculty, board members and students concluded that association with advertising was too limiting and that the school needed a broader name to reflect the rapidly changing industry landscape in which the school’s graduates find employment, said Rick Boyko, managing director of the VCU Brandcenter.

VCU Brandcenter also dropped $9 million to move to a new building, tapping world-famous architect Clive Wilkinson to lead the effort. Wilkinson partnered with local firm Baskerville to transform a historic 27,000-square-foot building in VCU’s Monroe Park campus into an open, airy space with a modern feel.

Boyko hopes the changes will help the school further set itself apart from the pack of portfolio schools and traditional academia by more closely aligning itself with an evolving ad business.