Planner confession: I can get very quickly annoyed with theory. I can get restless with too many charts of circles and arrows and circles leading to arrows leading to a square. Before the planning elite tsk tsk (yes Alain Sylvain, I’m talking to you) and I get kicked out of any respectable conversation on models or [...]
June 6, 2010
spent the weekend doing some major painting, crafting, building for the wilhelmine project. went and hung out with @jkoxvold for awhile and made some photographs for his collection. feels awesome to make and think and create.
June 4, 2010
this won’t be anything new to the ad folk out there, but i can’t tell you how many times i’ve sat in a meeting and heard, “well, people want it so we’re making it”. or conversely, “people won’t buy, so we’re not making it”. we don’t vote at the booths. we vote with our wallets. the wallets [...]
May 31, 2010
this weekend took me to kinda awesome Baltimore to check out a lacrosse tournament, including this epic game, and to slightly scary but well meaning Auberdeen to check out the US Military Ordnance Museum. a recurring thought emerged in these travels – we, as a human race, spend a lot of time doing and consuming dumb stuff. this [...]
May 21, 2010
May 21, 2010
armando’s *crazy* black sheep behavior rocks the very being of my creative soul, thus making the insight and stardust burst from its depths so i can lead the world’s brands to brighter and shinier futures as they venture forth into the imaginations of 18-24 year old guys the world over.
May 20, 2010
I recently wrote this for the BBH Labs blog. The photo comes from Death from Below, a blog by Zach Hilder. We just went through recruitment for our upcoming internship program, the BBH Barn, and since we announced our six interns from the 150+ applications we’ve received a lot of questions about our selection criteria. Whether literally [...]
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June 7, 2010
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