teme

Are You a Frustrated Artist Too?

July 9, 2008

Lou Reed plays “Berlin” in Stockholm tonight. Can’t miss that now can I? He also says in an interview that “if he hadn’t been a musician, he would have been an ad man”. Sure, there is obvious and somewhat loathsome irony in his statement, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it is true. So many [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

Cannes 2008 Day X: Wunderman

June 19, 2008

The Wunderman talk, featuring Nick Moore was one of the better ones this far. Clearly one of the not so many who has really put thought into digital communications (or simply 2008 situation for communicators). Interesting company as well. I’ll keep a closer eye on them. Nick’s statement of “don’t make big campaigns, create ongoing [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Transformator and The Role Of Product Design In Brand Communication

May 22, 2008

Industry design consultants Transformator made it into Dagens Media yesterday with a statement that they’re better than the advertising agencies. I’m sure they ARE better. At product design, design of the user experience, the brand in it’s physical product appearance. But that is not what advertising agencies do. What Daniel Ewerman (CEO of Tranformator) is [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

Is The Brand of Green Going Stale?

April 28, 2008

There is not much left in the world that is not green, organic, and sustainable. If I want to be evil and don’t care for mother Earth, I’m really stuck with a pitiful selection of Earth-abusing stuff. When I was in New York the other week the apple was really greener then big. Everybody wants [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Innovators, Painters and Poets

April 27, 2008

So I read that the Finnish agency 358 are drafting players from agencies like KesselsKramer, CPB and 180 (was with all these number names?). I also read that they’re going to work with ideas rather than advertising. Hmm… ideas rather than advertising… It sound ridiculous, but you know – I think they’re right in wording [...]

0 comments Read the full article →