After finishing our primary research on Max Factor, our first goal in tackling creative strategy was deciding to use the R/GA New York method to get to the unexpected insight. Using all of our primary research in addition to social listening, we were able to find paradoxes that existed within the image of the brand […]
I’m no one special. I’m just a guy who grew up with too much time on his hands; a guy who punched in too many hours inside his own head thinking about stuff and other stuff because my attention span was just abysmal. Fortunately, they have jobs for people like me. The ad industry calls […]
Creativity is a talent. Some are born with it, some are not. What you do with this talent is what defines you as a truly creative person. I find sports analogies to be very useful in most situations, and to describe a person’s potential creativity one that comes to mind is “practice makes perfect.” In […]
Notice how a stared-at pot never seems to boil? The painstaking staring session can easily get frustrating so you leave and await the soft whistle of the teapot from afar. This is the challenge of creativity. For true creativity is, in fact, a challenge. If it isn’t so, then it’s not done right. It is […]
As an artist turned illustrator turned graphic designer and now coursing to a career in art direction, my style has changed but my creative approach has stayed more or less the same. Over the years I learned that with each different title, my goal for the creative was slightly different. Artists create to seek truth […]
Best Buy Brand Revive ‘Art Direction’ Brands act significantly as the prima facie of all businesses. Customers typically try to identify with a respective brand based on the effect that they impose. As such, companies have been able to secure considerable gains due to this supposed impact on the purchasing power of consumers. Hence, the […]
Our group set aside an hour to concept the copy of our Polaroid ad for the brand revival. We began by understanding the limits of a Polaroid photo. One limit, obviously, is that you have just the one physical, printed copy of the photograph. This is a weakness which we tried to turn into a […]
“The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness” – Susan Cain For the first time in my life, I had found a piece of me that I’d been searching for in someone else’s speech. Susan lays out a unique and compelling perspective on how introversion is underestimated in […]
Here are seven dwarf guideposts to improve the quality of your personal stories, told or written. Get nostalgic. Revisit your old photos and journals, and other trinkets of memories from a specific event or experience you want to write about. Talk to people who experienced it with you for input and another angle, to try […]
This blog entry sizes up as an Amazon-type review on one of my creative submissions for the FIU-MAS GSC Creative Track. Writing for this particular prompt felt like a qualitative exercise; looking at a final result with new eyes for an insight. Description 18″ x 24″ and 8.5″ x 11″ (2 sizes) on inkpress rag matte poster paper Weighing […]