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Communication Breakdown #6: The Social Networking Cheat Sheet Edition

August 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Ad People, Advertising Agency, Art + Design, Brands, Communication Breakdown, Culture, Social Media, Techy, Web Roundup

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If you’re at all like the rest of us, except for me because it’s my job, then keeping up with new social networking tools is like middle school all over again. You’re trying to be cool and know what’s cool before everyone else knows that you don’t know what’s cool when no one actually [...]

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Branded Entertainment: Cool Until It’s Not

May 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Ad People, Advertising Agency, FilmGeek, Indianapolis

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This “branded entertainment” thing is a slippery slope. One day you’re the toast of the town for your innovative use of media, but one false move and suddenly your product placement seems heavy-handed, your brand has become the salient message and everyone is sick of hearing your name. Ho hum, it’s just like the day [...]

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The Selby Sells Out

April 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Ad People, Advertising Agency, Culture, Indianapolis

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If you’re anything like us then you enjoy getting your voyeuristic kicks by peering into the impeccably styled habitats of the world’s creative class via The Selby.com. (Kudos on your own impeccable taste, you’re in good company). It seems Mr. Selby’s website has garnered him a great deal of commercial success lately including the [...]

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Photoshop Just Upped the Ante, Let the Drooling Begin

March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Ad People, Advertising Agency, Indianapolis, Techy

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Holy, whoa.

Terry, it’s been real, but I think we can handle things from here.

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Zing, Charger. Zing.

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Ad People, Advertising Agency, Indianapolis

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Remember the Super Bowl? Remember that ad for the Charger–Man’s Last Stand? That was kind of funny, but making fun of it is even funnier:

Zing! Check out the interview with the director on AdAge.com

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Play With Your Food

November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Ad People, Art + Design, Brands, The Work

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After a recent and tragically botched attempt to make a caramel dipping sauce resulted in craft time in the Doodle office (and a few cut lips), we decided to pay a little tribute to some of our favorite (and more successful) unconventional uses of food.

Marmite is a British condiment/industrial by product (similar in taste [...]

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Doodle WAMPs

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Ad People, Art + Design

The Budapest office took a little field trip last weekend to check out what Doodle was calling the “hot-to-trot art bags in this town” at the country’s monthly design market (WAMP). After a long carpool vs. meet there debate a party bus was rented and made the most of.
Manning the PA system of Sandy Zoltan’s [...]

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Mad Mad Mad

August 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Ad People, Art + Design

We love Mad Men. We love Mad Men so much that the word love fails to convey the intensity of our true feelings for the show. We loaf it, we luff it, we lurve it. Such lurve could not possibly stem from the obvious similarities between the Nogginwerks office and the offices of Sterling Cooper [...]

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kids these days

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Ad People, Brands, Culture

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I’ve read a lot of critical reviews recently of the new 4th of July themed Levi’s add from Wieden+Kennedy. Most notable being Bob Garfield’s ad review titled, “Levi’s Target Unlikely to ‘Go Forth’ and Buy Its Jeans” in which he predicts, “…more likely than not — at least in the U.S. — it will generate little more [...]

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Can’t. Stop. Watching.

July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Ad People, Art + Design, Brands

What a grade A wiener. (25 years?)
Here are some of those “crap” one-color business cards that just happened to take home some Cannes Lions this year.
I bet they’re all kicking themselves right now. “Why didn’t we listen to that youtube guy?!”

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