Communications Council

Today was a very good day! I was offered the job at the Communications Council in Sydney - a new organisation that's bringing together the AFA, AWARD, the Account Planning Group (APG) and the Australasian Promotional Marketing Association (APMA).

http://www.communicationscouncil.org.au

Very excited about this job!! I'll be handling the Adschool enrolments. Yar-hooey!! :)

Starting in the new year!! Will be more ad-stuff to post soon!!

M. x

Back in Aus!

Finally back from 5 months of travelling!! Have spent the last 2 weeks driving from Perth to Sydney! Now in Kiama, and I'm on the hunt for a job in Sydney! Can't wait to get back into it!!!

EUROPE!!!

7 weeks to go!!!



Then over to Sydney!! :D

SO EXCITED!!!!!!

Quote of the day

A great man once said: "You've got two ears and one mouth, use them in that proportion."

Pixel invasion!!

Adland I love you

Okay.

Situation.

Friday lunchtime.

I gather up my first industry read (Creative) for a long few months of not having the free time or energy to put towards my undeniable love for advertising and ideas.

I head to the local Thai in West Perth to treat myself to a laksa and get reading.

First few pages, my excitement grows.

Mid way through I realise I am sitting there with eyebrows raised and mouth closed-smiling reading about the top voted advertising ideas, campaigns and agencies in Australia.

And I re-realised how much I love advertising. So much that I think it's unhealthy.

And I'm now buzzing from the excitement...

SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!

I need to get over east!!! And when I do... there will be no stopping me!!!!!! *evil cackle*!!!

Font of the day

Download the lego alphabet!
http://www.delightfulgoodness.com/freebies/downloadable-lego-alphabet/

Brandkarma

"Publicis Mojo's Australian Chief Creative Officer Craig Davis is out to help everyone make better brand choices and influence brand behavior for good”.

"My issue with Brandkarma is not what it's nobly trying to achieve, but simply this: 99.9% of consumers, the regular mums, dads and kids out there, couldn't care less about contributing to sites like Brandkarma. As usual, the committed - from genuinely interested to zealots on a mission - will dominate and sway the findings accordingly.
For instance, I reckon 90% of Australians don't have any problems with Nestle - but according to BK they obviously do."

At least someone is giving it a crack. It's a good start anyway. For a personal project it is actually a great start! Maybe if there was some incentive for any consumer to log their opinions on brands, rather than just them putting in their two cents for nothing in return other than to see what others think, too..

Definitely raised a few eyebrows on Campaign Brief!

http://www.brandkarma.com/

Cute little intro video as well!

Brand channel - it's time for brand school!

http://www.brandchannel.com/brand_speak.asp

I want to learnnnn!!!!!

Freshmen ads

Somewhere there's a junior creative crying in a beer.

Bars do it. Diners do it. Dry Cleaners do it.

Hang the first ads you were paid to write, design, direct, produce and sell to the client right here on our wall.

As Letterman would say, "This is an exhibition, not a competition. Please, no wagering."

http://www.freshmenads.com/
Classic!!

"The year was 1987 (there, you made me say it) and the place was The Richards Group in Dallas. This was one of those junior team hand-me-down projects that was due almost overnight.

Luckily for me I was paired with a talented female writer who had a much deeper appreciation for mammographies than myself. You can tell I was heavily influenced by everything coming out of Minneapolis at the time. This actually made it into The One Show that year.

My, how times and tastes have changed. – Scott Ballew"

KFC anthem! hahaha

What do you value most in an agency?

Some good insight in this article plucked for Marketing Mag

That's the ning nang nong

Ahhhh my golly gosh.. The things you find on youtube!!
Grew up singing this song from Playschool! Couldn't stop laughing after watching it for the first time in 18 years!!

Old spice.. The man your man could smell like

Absolutely Gold!!!

In the New Year

I promise to blog again. (hey, my computer died I have an excuse!)
I promise to save money.
I promise to eat healthy and exercise more.
I promise to save youngtalentinadvertising!

HERE YE!