Month: June 2015
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You are not a planner you are a lawyer
Google Firestarters this June invited a selection of 7 planners to come and talk about the most useful thing that they’d learned in their careers. It was a stellar line up (details at Neil Perkin’s Only Dead Fish page) and included two planners who combine their planning genius with immaculate comedy timing, so if you…
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Hey, money makers, leave the kids alone. This is the thrust of George Monbiot’s recent rant in the Guardian about City Firms seducing grads into a doomed life of making money and ruining their lives. He argues that at this vulnerable point when they’ve got their lives in front of them they should get some…
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Cultural Archetypes rule us all.
Zombies invade Cannes this year courtesy of MediaCom’s partnership with AMC. The session as Cannes opens reveals what the cultural conditions were that allowed The Walking Dead to become such a worldwide hit, and how in fact different nations would respond to a real life Zombie attack. How much has the world wide web changed…
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Wide open sports sponsorship opportunities, cheap as chips and with no clutter, or scandal.
Always’ “#LikeAGirl” has just won the most pencils at D&AD 2015 awards. The ad, which is designed to help to address the drop off in body confidence in teenage girls, received its well-deserved accolade in the same week as this letter hit social media. The letter, which is anonymous, and on pink paper (nice touch)…