The “insincere business of manipulation and seduction”

I find myself returning to a comment made by the Portland art critic, D.K. Row, in his review of an art exhibition at Wieden + Kennedy quite a while back. The show features work done by W+K employees, including the very fine painter Storm Tharp.
Row asks, in his review, why Wieden + Kennedy doesn’t get [...]

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We’re all paying for GM’s ways

The whole way GM handles marketing would be fascinating in an academic way if it weren’t for the fact that you, me, and everyone else who pays taxes is going to suffer because of it.
If you want to weep over your own dollars, just read the AdAge interview with Mike Jackson, former GM VP of [...]

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Skittles: Flavor of the Month?

The makeover of the Skittles web site this past week has sparked a number of responses from industry professionals ranging from “bold campaign” to “bad use of social media.” If you don’t know by now, Skittles.com is using a number of prominent social media destinations as its website homepage, ranging from Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr [...]

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