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Progressive Turnout Project, a Democratic political action committee, launched a Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri-inspired campaign today demanding stricter gun control laws and specifically calling out House Speaker Paul Ryan for not proposing legislation in the wake of another deadly school shooting. The group’s digital billboard outside Ryan’s Janesville, Wis., congressional office reads: “17 killed…

Two gun control groups, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, have taken out a two-page ad in today’s The New York Times listing members of Congress who have accepted donations from the National Rifle Association. Following last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,…

Hornbach, dude. We love it when it’s serious, but when it’s weird, it can’t be beat. The European DIY brand that once gave us the man who feels his house’s pain has returned, this time in collaboration with designer and architect Sigurd Larsen. Together they’ve created the Werkst?ck Edition Lounge Chair. It’s a smooth, markedly…

When indie creative shop Jomo won the Bic Flex 5 men’s razors assignment in August, its leaders knew they had to find a unique voice that would showcase the product’s quality and value while setting the brand apart from its many competitors. Jomo found that voice in J.B. Smoove, a.k.a. Jerry Angelo Brooks, the actor,…

As if it weren’t clear that burger chain Carl’s Jr. was pivoting away from the over-the-top sexuality that defined the brand for years, the first campaign from its new agency of record reinforces that. Havas focuses on the bacon, with help from the voice of Matthew McConaughey, he of the reflective car ads and fireside…

At some point during the 1970s, my father, Terry Clarke, walked into the pristine conference room of a conservative manufacturing company in New England. The company had long supplied the federal government with precision devices, for which they made a fortune in top-secret contracts. On this particular spring day, my father and his partners were…

Branding the Olympics for a global audience is one of the world’s most high-profile design projects. For the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, the task fell to Interbrand, the global brand consultancy. And its work has been unique indeed–largely because, for the first time, the visual designs were built largely from words and…

An epic love story! Who doesn’t want one? Bollywood’s been selling them to us for years, so it’s apt that the music-infused film industry is where Tinder India gleans inspiration for its latest work. “Start Something Epic,” by BBH India and directed by Bharat Sikka, stars indie musician and actor Kavya Trehan as a standard-issue…

Despite the explosion in mobile advertising (eMarketer pegs mobile to generate $70 billion in the U.S. this year, up from $47 billion in 2016), mobile advertising, by and large, still sucks. Creative is often jammed into small boxes and ad formats that litter websites, and in some cases, marketers use deceptive design tricks to incentivize…

Like many entrepreneurial professionals, Lynne Lambert sees a lot of swag in her business travels, and also like many professionals, she has to make a tough call about the swag bags she’s found herself toting around trade-show floors. It goes like this: “Everything is heavily logoed, and I have to decide: Do I toss this?…