I've always kinda liked student advertising better than actual advertising, especially the new media approaches. Maybe it's because with student advertising you don't have the client pulling you back in and making your work more realistic. As a student, you're free to go wherever your creative little mind takes you, or at least for the most part. To prove my point, here's some great advertising work, all done by students. A few of my favorites from the collection are below.
Here's some interesting Monday morning reading with your non-fat, no water, Tazo Chai Tea Latte. Starbucks' ad agency, Wieden & Kennedy, has quit the account. The story on Gawker is pretty detailed, and it sounds like W & K was just fed up and Starbucks sucks as a client. I just hope their next agency doesn't recommend to lose the public restrooms.
I am a huge Seinfeld fan. I still watch the show just about every day (ah, the joy of syndication) and have all the DVDs. But, when I saw Jerry Seinfeld walking through a parking lot with Bill Gates, I cringed. Aside from my passion for all things Mac, the recent Windows Vista ads featuring Seinfeld and Gates did little for me.
I'm not sure what it was about the ads. Maybe they seemed to be trying too hard to be different. Maybe I just didn't get why two billionaires would run into each other at a mall shoe store. Maybe I hated Bill Gates' odd dancing. Whatever it was, I wasn't alone. Many people disliked the spots, and voiced their opinions.
Today the ads have finished their run. Microsoft insists it was the plan all along to only show them for a short time and then cut 'em, but I'm not so sure. I mean, maybe Microsoft really did intend to pay Jerry $10 million for just two commercials... who am I to judge?
In any case, I'm sure Jerry isn't too torn up. He never really did like the computer anyways. It always just sat in the corner of his apartment, a clue that he was in fact living in the 90s, but didn't really know how to use it. In one episode he even says, "I've gotta get on that internet. I'm late on everything!" Indeed. Now go take your $10 million and buy a Mac.
Passed Kathryn Erbe, also known as Detective Eames on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, tonight on my Upper West Side street. She was walking her dog with another woman and blended right into the street scene.
I've always kinda liked student advertising better than actual advertising, especially the new media approaches. Maybe it's because with student advertising you don't have the client pulling you back in and making your work more realistic. As a student, you're free to go wherever your creative little mind takes you, or at least for the most part. To prove my point, here's some great advertising work, all done by students. A few of my favorites from the collection are below.
