Is she nuts?
Call me crazy. Neurotic. Obsessed. Daring. Too ambitious. All of the above, or none.
The idea of My Own Ad School is simple. I can’t afford to study in well-known institutions such as VCU, Creative Circus, Miami Ad School, nor can I even guarantee myself an acceptance. And I can’t stand waiting another year to finish my undergrad career to start my own career in advertising. I’m too intrigued, fascinated and obsessed to take a break from all this ad business. So what’s a girl to do?
Besides reading copious amounts of ad-related blogs, constantly on IHAI (a must visit site!), I really needed a creative outlet for my learning experience. What better way to do this than to start my own blog? And best of all, it could be a great way for me to receive feedback and/or criticism on my posts.
If any of you have ideas on “exercises” or “lesson plans” you’d like me to take a crack at, just send me an email: bianca@myownadschool.com
April 19th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Good luck at your school !
Quick idea: why don’t you try to post some assignments? Ask agencies and advertisers for briefings and case studies and share them with your readers.
Maybe you’ll end up with some great campaigns, in a very Web 2.0 crowdsourcing way
April 20th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Hi Armando,
Thanks for visiting my blog! When I was planning out my blog, one of my ideas was to post creative briefs/case studies so that readers and I can take a jab at it, but I wasn’t sure on how to do that. So thank you for your suggestion to ask agencies and advertisers
I will be posting my own spec ads for everyone to see because I do want to receive feedback. I guess you can call it my lesson on ‘Developing thick skin and using constructive criticism to improve your portfolio” 