It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
If it doesn't sell it isn't creative.
No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.
I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings...
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.
The news is glorified gossip.
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to b...
aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Sad to say, negative advertising really works.
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers an...
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.