8
Feb

Poster ads for the latest season of AMC’s Mad Men (which has been some year and a half in the making) have been appearing all over New York City. And like any large, white space in the city, the posters have been promptly covered in tags and graffiti. But as you can see in the pictures, many of the street art additions have actually improved the ads.

I find it hard to believe that AMC execs purposely left the ads big and blank as an invitation for would-be Sterling Cooper Draper Price creatives, but I also think they had to know that people wouldn’t be able resist leaving a mark. Whether intentional or not, this ad campaign for a show about advertising has in itself become a commentary about the nature and effectiveness of advertising.

Genius. Meta. A little bit pretentious. Just like the show.

14 notes mad men / advertising / poster / graffiti / new york city /
28
Sep
Brief sampling of the pages of notes I took yesterday while visiting the New York offices of Saatchi & Saatchi with my fellow brand management classmates. We had an amazing all-day experience with some of the coolest agency professionals I’ve ever met. Words like unreasonable, audacity, restlessness, and tenacity are thrown around their offices with gleeful excitement. Speaking of the offices, Saatchi has created a Wonka-esque advertising mecca where pie charts co-occupy wall space with original sketches of the Trix Rabbit and an office filled with giant balloons is home to the “conservative guy.” This is just the first post of many I’m going to write reflecting on the day we spent at Saatchi… The knowledge they dropped on us could (and did) fill a book (it’s called “lovemarks”). It was incredible to see this legendary creative engine in action, sort of like an emotional nuclear reactor.

Brief sampling of the pages of notes I took yesterday while visiting the New York offices of Saatchi & Saatchi with my fellow brand management classmates. We had an amazing all-day experience with some of the coolest agency professionals I’ve ever met. Words like unreasonable, audacity, restlessness, and tenacity are thrown around their offices with gleeful excitement. Speaking of the offices, Saatchi has created a Wonka-esque advertising mecca where pie charts co-occupy wall space with original sketches of the Trix Rabbit and an office filled with giant balloons is home to the “conservative guy.”

This is just the first post of many I’m going to write reflecting on the day we spent at Saatchi… The knowledge they dropped on us could (and did) fill a book (it’s called “lovemarks”). It was incredible to see this legendary creative engine in action, sort of like an emotional nuclear reactor.

38 notes saatchi / saatchi and saatchi / advertising / lovemarks / ad agency / new york / new york city / advertising new york / mba / brand management / brand /