bk Musings: What Makes Us Tick
Stimulate Your Creative Process
Before customer data was so readily available and the number of mediums became countless, advertising was simpler. Still a challenge, but simpler. I think of Mad Men, particularly when they come up with the idea for lipsticks in season 1. What we watched was a focus group of their target audience (young women of the […]
Lynne McLean is committed to helping abused children in Texas
Lynne McLean has dedicated her life and career to helping children who have been victims of abuse or neglect. She started her career on the front lines with abused and neglected kids as a Child Protective Service (CPS) caseworker in Dallas. A graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington, she has put her bachelor’s […]
Your campaign worked… but how do you know which part?
You’ve done the research, the legwork and maybe even some focus studies before your last campaign, and the results were actually strong enough to reach your goals. That’s great! But what made it different from the others that had less success? It can be hard to tell without the right tools or information. What is […]
Here’s Why I’m Going to the 2018 DIFF This Weekend, and You Should, Too
Sometimes it’s not about work. To clarify, in this blog representing my company, work is important, but so is the work-life balance as an individual person, and as a team. I feel like the big projects can wear you out as a group; unwinding back to routine is hard, and sometimes even that can make […]
Interview with Randy Skattum, Celanese – Global Marketing Communications Director
I find that most people have a path or at least a pattern to their careers that are, of course, easier to see when looking back on it or from an outside vantage point. I enjoy interviewing people for this blog on careers and how they got where they are and what they do. I […]
For those who say ‘Design doesn’t matter’
Recently, someone asked me what I like about being a graphic designer. My wheels started spinning because there are so many reasons. Besides the fact that I’m obsessed with color and typography, design, in my humble opinion, affects almost every aspect of our lives. Design is not just about making things look pretty (although, that […]
Watching TV is about to get even more interactive.
Soundlly is using data-filled tones to stream additional content to mobile devices. Let me start this post off by saying that “Soundlly” is not a typo, no matter what spell-check / auto-correct says. Instead, Soundlly is the name of a company in Seoul, South Korea, which has developed a technology that uses sounds at low […]
Caveat Empclicktwittor
The same machines that help us better target can also hurt us. Caveat Empclicktwittor is me pretending I remember anything from high school Latin class, but I’m going to loosely translate it as, “beware what you click on Twitter” because it turns out that the same machines that help us better target customers can also […]
Fighting the battle against mediocrity
Complacency is the greatest danger to an advertising agency and its clients It happens to everyone and everything, everywhere. Monkeys in the forests of South America get complacent about their jumps between trees in the jungle and fall to their deaths. (Check it out, it is a real thing.) The New York Yankees get tired […]
Turns out Tweens are, well, different.
The next generation of consumer is even more different than you think. My 11 year-old son makes me insane. Don’t get me wrong, I love him more than anything, but after watching him walk around with a trash can on his head the other day, I’m starting to think that maybe . . . just […]
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