it’s the beauty secret of the industry. and the subject of much debate. some say it adds an air of aspiration. others say it paints an unrealistic body image and false sense of face. and some are calling for full disclosure. see ny times op-ed video:
personally, i wouldn’t mind a retoucher slimming me down and smoothing my skin every single day. but i’m vain like that.
care to weigh in?
— Robin Lohkamp
while i love my iphone am not afraid to show it, i have to wonder what my new email signature says about me. on-trend early adopter? check. but as a freelancer, it also admits to any client e-mail recipient that i am definitely not in my office. which is exactly where i should be, busily branding on their behalf. might as well admit my email was “sent from the elliptical machine at penfield fitness and racquet club”, “sent from my target holiday shopping extravaganza” or “sent from my long-overdue hair appointment at scott miller.”
so i ask you, status symbol sign-off or blatant out-of-office tip-off? discuss.
if you heart mad men, then you probably caught this clip on SNL over the weekend. and while jon hamm could peddle the pants off anyone, it got me thinking. about the strangest product i’d ever worked on: an estrogen replacement therapy aptly named femring. it was no john ham, and you couldn’t eat it in the bathroom, but still.
So there I was in Barnes and Noble, nibbling my scone, sipping my Fiji and fueling my creativity with the October 2008 issue of How. Which just so happens to be the Self-Promotion Annual. And right there on page 94 is our 2008 ADDY Best of Show winner, the Rochester International Jazz Festival press kit created by WXXI in-house team Jon Haliniak and Kristen Tutino. How cool is that?
Another bit of bigness to hit the pubs is John Myers Photography in the Communication Arts Photography Annual. With a full spread for his work on the Boy Scout annual report! Apparently no good deed goes unnoticed.
And speaking of spying big ideas, rumor has it you’ll be able to see some MasterCard work from Roberts Communications in the upcoming 2009 Graphis Advertising Annual. Whit Thompson and Mark Stone are so money with their clever creative. Look for it at the end of the month.
Apparently, creative juices floweth big time down the Genesee River. Go ROC.