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Killed Ideas Blog

This morning, while still recovering from the Rod Stewart concert, I received an email from Siri, the Account Manager at Ammo, a Word of Mouth Marketing agency in San Francisco.

Ammo, with their client Blurb.com, has an exciting new project in the works.

The project, in a nutshell, seeks to collect the best “killed ideas” (creative that never saw the light of day).

Steve Hall of AdRants will be vetting and selecting the final 50 best killed ideas to appear in a book called Best Killed Ideas Vol. 1.

What a fantastic idea, as what old salt in the design industry doesn’t have a long list of killed ideas?

Because where there be clients, there be idea killers galore.

I’m now off to twiddle out my favourite been dead a long time ideas… how about you?

AdFest 2008

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan is coming to the armpit of Thailand – Pattaya.

Groan. And as much as I desire to see more of Stefan, I don’t want the slime of Pattaya in my head.

You see, I love the Thai people – their kindness, their sweetness, their generosity – but the sleaze of Pattaya isn’t a Thailand I want to know. [... Continue reading ... Stefan Sagmeister is coming …

Brand Appeal

From Brand Appeal:
This blog was created to simply discuss current opinions on branding, advertising communications, design, and showcase news from our studio.

Posts found:
Highly recommended, the Are you cool? post.

Found:
AdVerbatims

Brand Appeal is by: CAM Design

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Houtlust

About:
Houtlust is about nonprofit advertising and social campaigns. On the edge of marketing and activism. Houtlust is the meeting place about communication for all you folks of the advertising industry, good Samaritans, grassroots, activists and social entrepreneurs.

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It’s a little premature and Design & people
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Creative Skirts

About:
This is a place for discussion, a place to help us build a community. It is for women and men alike, to examine women’s role in advertising – what it has been, what it is, and one day, what it may become.

Check out:
“Penis-mania” is rampant. and Growing Female Design Collective

Found at Creative Skirts:
Advertising Women of New York meet Armin’s Dealing with “Women” Part I: The Rant

Creative Skirts is by: Claire Morrisey, Jenn Totten, Lauren Peters

Discovered via: Designers who Blog stats

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Spin Thicket About Us
Spin Thicket puts a new twist on PR, Spin Thicket: Fark for marketers of the world?, It’s Fark for creatives …

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Spin Thicket Ad Biz and Spin Thicket PR Biz

Found at Spin Thicket:
If Doing What’s Right Is So Clear, Why Do So Many Companies Get It Wrong?

Discovered via: brandflakesforbreakfast

EDITED: This blog no longer has the same target … it’s now all about celebs …

adverlicio.us

About:
adverlicio.us ‘It’s a huge collection of archived online ads’ all tagged and categorized for quick access. Some of the ads are great, some are terrible, but all offer something for designers, marketers, ad agencies, etc. I’ve several thousand ads so you’ll surely find a few favorites.

Check out:
Cisco Systems “Upper Hand” and Sansa e200 “Hungry Lil’ Monsta”

adverlicio.us is by: James Gardner

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AdverBox Advertising Blog

About:
I felt the desire to offer advertising a single space to be featured, still maintaining the freshness and the spirit of the Ad-A-Day: just great advertising, doesn’t matter if new or old, and just great stuff from all over the world.

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The British Council and Bad sound kills good music

AdverBox Advertising Blog is by: Giuseppe Contaldo – Neuville

Ernie Schenck

About:
A blog for people who really really really like Ernie’s advertising column in Communication Arts but hate having to wait two months until the next one. Not just another ad blog for the masses. Do not leave your mind at the door.

Check out:
The Houdini Solution Has Landed! and Are You A Copywriter Or Aren’t You?

Ernie’s book, “The Houdini Solution: Put Creativity and Innovation To Work By Thinking Inside The Box”, goes live September 15th. Congratulations Earnie.

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Don Loper

About:
Where did that name come from anyway? Oh, I don’t know; it was just a funny incident and the name’s convenient because no one else ever uses it for anything. Don Loper is about Advertising and Marketing, web development, Business and Entrepreneurship, Design, Jobs / Careers, Managing a Creative Agency, Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization

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Website Redesign – Phase 1, Planning and Entrepreneurship – Don’t Do It.

Don Loper is by Joshuak