Ad Chatter Season 4, Episode 4: Featuring Artist Chad Rea

“When I went to Mother, it was like I was asked to put on my funny pants. At Pyro, I wasn’t allowed to be funny. It was more about being cool. And so when I went to Mother, if I tried to do anything cool, it was like, where’s the joke?” This episode of Ad […]

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Play with Words and Images

Edward Ruscha is an American fine artist with something significant to say about pop culture and advertising. His work, which sometimes looks like an ad, also has something to teach the makers of pop culture and advertising. According to The Tate: Words and phrases are at the centre of Ed Ruscha’s work and first appear […]

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Heinz Brazil Is Improving the Tattoo Experience for All

In an innovative, relevant, and health-conscious move, Heinz Brazil is developing a proprietary “Heinz red” tattoo pigment using only non-harmful ingredients and making the ink available to tattoo parlors throughout Brazil. The action comes on news that color tattoo ink faces growing restrictions and outright bans in countries around the world. The European Union alone […]

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Badvertising Aims to Define Why Ads Make You Go ‘WTF?’

No one in the advertising industry ever gets up in the morning and says, “Today, I’m going to create boring, uninspired work people will ignore.” But it happens every day. We all know it, we’ve all done it, and I’ve spent a good part of my career pontificating about the idiosyncrasies of an industry that […]

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Ad Chatter, The Podcast: Change Isn’t Coming, It’s Here

Seattle-based copywriter, author, and educator, Dan Goldgeier, and I recorded a pilot episode of Adpulp’s new podcast today. We’ve previously recorded and shared video segments. This is pure audio. We discuss four timely topics on this pilot episode: Hill Holliday’s newly stated commitment to diversity and inclusion The NBA is out on strike 300 Pizza […]

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Poets Are Particularly Adept At “Packaging” Big Ideas for Brands

Do copywriters write well in other forms? Does it matter? Yes and yes. For professional writers, there is the literary market, the entertainment market, the journalism market, and the advertising market. When you work in advertising, all of the sister industries are part of the big picture. When you go to bat for a brand, […]

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Water Conservation Is Mission Critical Throughout Texas and the West

Tarrant Regional Water District delivers a reliable, resilient supply of water to the public at the lowest cost and highest quality possible. With more than two million people in the district’s rapidly growing North Texas service area, residents and businesses need a safe, reliable water supply that meets their needs today and for decades to […]

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Sun Tzu, So You Don’t Have To

This new article in our Emerging Voices Series is made possible by the generous support of Adpulp’s patrons on Patreon. Please join us.   LONDON—When we think of The Art of War we think of a dusty, old, impregnable tome pored over by tweed-clad old men in dusty drawing rooms. Maybe it’s an accurate stereotype, […]

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Dreamers and Artists Always Welcome #USA

Thanks to unrelenting media narratives about race and immigration, some American citizens have a deeply distorted point of view on the topics. It’s a sad reality and for millions, this is a tough time in America. Perhaps it will help to point out how the rise of ignorance and hate is also ushering in an […]

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People, We Have A Whale of a Trash Problem

Prepare yourself for this staggering statistic: 300,000 pounds of plastic ends up in the ocean every nine minutes. To bring awareness to the issue of ocean plastic pollution, Hub Strategy & Communication and the Monterey Bay Aquarium unveiled a life-sized plastic blue whale art installation on Crissy Field in the Presidio. The 82-foot-long blue whale […]

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BBC Creative Weaves A World Cup Tapestry for All Time

Tapestries have been used by royal courts for thousands of years to depict important events in the lives of the citizenry. Today, the tapestries are mostly museum pieces, but a creative team in England discovered a new and improved use for the textile storyboard. BBC Creative, the broadcaster’s in-house agency, painstakingly created a film that […]

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Spotify’s In-House Creative Team Is Raising The High-Bar

Spotify was named Ad Age’s “In-House Agency of the Year” in February. Once upon a time, no one paid attention to in-house agencies. Today, the designation is a real honor. Let’s take a look at some of Spotify’s creative output… The brand turned popular playlist RapCaviar into a sub-brand “that could meaningfully connect with artists […]

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Martin Agency Makes Custom Crafted Set To Showcase Mass Produced Butter

Butter is everything at Land O’Lakes. Award-winning advertising is everything at Martin Agency. Combine the two and commercials like this happen: Martin’s creative team tapped artist/designer/director Kyle Bean and the team at Hornet to get meticulous for the dairy. Bean and his team hand-crafted, seamless stop-motion animations. Every single set element was custom made, down […]

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The Avalon Ballroom Is Argonaut’s Launchpad To New Space

“Hipsters, tripsters, real cool chicks, sir, everyone’s doin’ that rag…” -Robert Hunter Fifty years ago in San Francisco, LSD-fueled rock-and-roll parties raged deep into the night at The Longshoreman’s Hall, The Avalon Ballroom, and The Fillmore. A new culture was born from this artistic Renaisance—a culture which continues to feed people’s spirits and bank accounts […]

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Opening The Doors To Contemporary African Art

Big news from Cape Town. Art and architecture lovers will be able to explore Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art, which opens to the public for the first time this weekend. The museum’s pro bono advertising agency, M&C Saatchi Abel developed the new logo and brand identity to reflect the iconic status and symbolic importance […]

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No Wonder I Break Hearts When Spilt

Milk continues to be the perfect canvas for creative expressions of advertising. Witness these three little films from Colenso BBDO and New Zealand milk brand Anchor. The campaign just won a Gold Lion in the Health & Wellness category at Cannes. The campaign features slam poet Harry Baker working through some of the smartest product […]

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In GSP’s Hands, Adobe Stock Photography Delivers Stunning Results

Stock images have a bad reputation in the creative community because creative teams set out to make original communications specific to one brand on the planet. That’s hard to do with an image that wasn’t shot specifically for the ad, or project, in question. And it’s impossible to do when using a stock image that’s […]

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Mike Diva Makes The Impossible Possible: The Donald Can Dance!

Art Net News calls it, “a hypnotically-brilliant video.” The New Republic says, “It makes the end of the world seem as sweet as bubble gum.” All high praise for North Hollywood-based Mike Diva, the director behind one of the best political ads of the season, hands down. If Trump’s team knew what they were doing, […]

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Designer/Archeologist Restores Old Outdoor Ads (To Something Beyond Their Former Glory)

According to Portland Monthly, 3D designer Craig Winslow has turned a yearlong creative residency with Adobe into a fascinating new art project. Using a technique called projection mapping, Winslow takes clues from ghost ads on city walls and recreates the original ads on his computer to scale. Then he projects them back onto the wall. […]

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LEGO Blind Art Project

I like the interactivity of this, especially when the blind explain their Lego creations to those who can see. While most of this is due to someone who is capable of describing the artwork in terms that children can understand, it brings the same amount of interpretation as viewing.

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