my own ad school

I recently stumbled on these ads for the Volkswagen Fox while browsing the DDB website. I found them pretty entertaining:

If you’d like to see the rest, I found a few more: Alien, Rocky, Pulp Fiction, The Exorcist, The Shining, and Star Wars. Enjoy!

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It’s great to see green marketing efforts such as this ad from Honda (as well as these).

Carbonmade is an online portfolio site where designers, writers and artists can upload their work for free (or sign up for the pro plan, which lets you upload a whole lot more).

I’m really glad I discovered this site because:

a) it’s a great source of inspiration: it’s not to copy or imitate others, but if you browse through a few projects, it can definitely get your creative flow moving.

b) it can give you sense of direction: you’ll find a variety of creatives in different phases of their professional careers - some have just started out, while others have already produced work for well-known companies. By looking at their work, it can give you the drive to step up and find what was missing in your portfolio, or it can help you set goals for yourself (for example, learning another program or skill).

c) it gives you a sense of who you’ll be competing with out there. By looking at what others have done, it can help you figure out what you need to do and what you need to show to make yourself stand out to clients.

and finally,

d) it can further fuel your drive to succeed as a creative. Even though there’s a large pool of talented creatives out there, it doesn’t mean finding work to add to your portfolio is rare. Ok, it is competetive, but there’s always going to be projects up for grabs, especially with the rise of entrepreneurs creating new businesses every day. So if it’s a bit of hope that you’re looking, you can find some here.

So I’m finally back! I’d like to thank everyone for still writing comments despite my lack of posts. Final exams for summer school, Don Training (to be a Residential Advisor this year), Frosh Week, and the first month of the academic year has definitely made me run out of breath!

But now that some things have begun to settle down, I can’t wait to start posting again! Even though I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve still written down a few things I wanted to write about, so stay tuned for that.

Also, being back on campus has completely raised my awareness on certain issues (I’m finding myself getting into social activism!), so I’m also thinking of tying those things in with advertising in future posts.

Once again, thanks for all the comments! New posts are on the way!

So in the meantime, here’s a new video from Dove. It’s not quite like the Evolution campaign, but it’s still worth checking out: