Parisian Agency Fred & Farid’s Wrangler Print is beautiful and I think well deserving of a Cannes Grand Prix. Simple can be compelling.
//Photo by Ryan McGinley
Pretty ballsy, pretty bananas
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This week’s This American Life is about story origins.
Most interesting is that one of the stories centers around a legendary creative team from the glory days of ad agency Doyle Dane Bernbach. Now I always knew Bill Bernbach was a legend and I always knew George Lois was a legend but what this story about Lois’ partner and copywriter Julian Koenig suggests, is that he was in fact the mind behind the campaigns that changed advertising forever.
//via AgencySpy
Dave Eggers: The Wild Things — based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze — is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control.
Nice tie-in with the movie’s release. Hope it doesn’t wreck the original!
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