"It's good. For what it is." For example, if you've done an okay pharmaceutical ad, you're saying it's good, consi...

What's on your agency's walls? Ads? Art? Post-Its? Scuff marks? How does that affect the creative? The clients? The culture? My frie...

When I walk into an agency and don't see any work on the walls, I suspect it's because their work is mediocre, and they're not r...

It's mid-December. And you're about to go on break. If you're a student, you'll be leaving school. If you're a professio...

Here's a revision of an earlier post . I beefed it up for an internal presentation. I debated putting it on makinads.com since it's...

Granted, you have more than 30-seconds to make an impression in an interview. In fact, if you've come this far, your work speaks for its...

An executive creative director once told me that one of the most important things she could do as a manager was to make sure she understood ...

Here's an Adweek interview with Jeff Goodby. Around the 2:25 mark, he points out that the current state of advertising is forcing us to ...

Hugh Mcleod drew this. It appears in Seth Godin's book The Dip . And it's very true. Except in advertising. At least the creative s...

Ryan Ebner is a very good copywriter and director (that's his Boba Fett spot at the bottom of the post). I’ve worked with him peripheral...