Ad Haiku: Holiday Cards

Every shop toils over them. And by toil, we mean arguing about tactics and fist-fighting over snowflake placement. If you were one of the folks who received ours (below), just know that blood was shed in channeling the 1980s to bring you holiday salutations.

(click photo to enhance holiday spirit)

In a stroke of brilliance (or is it brilliant ambivalence?), The Denver Egotist has eschewed the typical approval process by providing a fine collection of holiday card possibilities and putting the whole matter up for a reader vote.

Tough decisions. I'm going to beer bong a few cups of eggnog and pick whichever design looks best when viewed from the floor.

Here's wishing you a
Happy Something-or-other,
Merry What-have-you


Previously in the Friday 5-7-5: Agency Breakfasts

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Tap the Rockies for free talent.

From our friends over at the Denver Egotist: the Art Directors Club of Denver is throwing a bone into the blood-soaked Ring of Kick-Ass Creativity and All Things Marketably Awesome. They're prodding and provoking hungry advertising hopefuls, college students, and hobo drifters with Photoshop skills to battle it out (probably to the death*) to develop an ad campaign for a local non-profit.

The winners will have their campaign produced and implemented by Arts Street, an arts education program serving poor kids and stuff in the Denver area. The losers will be shot^§ .

Ad agencies, you've been put ON NOTICE. Considering the current economic freak show on Wall Street, this could be the post-apocalyptic future for one-off projects. Welcome to Thunderdome^†.


* Probably not.
§ Unlikely.

^{† Whatever.}

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