Not Forgotten

Posted by ryan as Advertising, Art, Career, Design, Designer, Interweb, Life Path

So I’ve been neglecting this site recently. I have not forgotten about this site and plan to start posting often again real soon. I have some things in the works and when the time is right I will make it known publicly. Long story short I’ve moved on from my previous employer and opportunity is knocking. Good times people.

CP+B Wake Up

Posted by ryan as Advertising, Humor

Remember when CP+B made commercials that had humor in them? Mocking previous burger commercials with lines like meat and cheese and meat and cheese. That to me was classic. They went on to create a few commercials in this series that are gold.

CP+B + Zune = Fail

Posted by ryan as Advertising, Bummer

I got to tell you this latest campaign that Crispin Porter + Bogusky has put together for Microsoft is just all around bad. Its almost hard to believe that a creative firm like CP+B would even want to even try to rep such an unreal slant on Microsoft versus Apple products. I’m willing to bet that they don’t use M products themselves. But lets give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they just really like the challenge of trying to trick the world into believing that getting a Microsoft product instead of Apple is a great deal and you will be happy. That may even prove true, as long as you never look into to Apple products and really compare them. That’s what they should add to this campaign. “Hey you, don’t use Apple products, they cost too much. Don’t worry your pretty little head about this one, Microsoft has you taken care of. Just please quickly leave that Apple store and come with me down to Best Buy and lets spend $1500 bucks on a machine that you can patch every month or so. Its one hell of a bargain.”

As far as this Zune commercial is concerned, this is ridiculous. I just got to say the whole $15.00 a month or your music player is worthless over the get a music player that you can fill with music the way the rest of the world gets music is just dumb. How dumb are potential Zune buyers? Apparently CP+B thinks they are real dumb. You find it, you can keep it!

A.A. Boos Website Launch

Posted by ryan as Advertising, Career, Design, Interweb, Portfolio, Web Devlopment

We recently launched a new site for a local contractor. To quote the actual website

“A. A. Boos & Sons, Inc. is a full service Union General Contractor with our own combined skilled labor force, 150 field employees, consisting of bricklayers, cement finishers, ironworkers, operating engineers, laborers; servicing our clients in Ohio, Michigan and other states.”

Its a great site with a smooth vibe. I am happy with the direction this project was lucky to go in.

Ad Content As Content

Posted by ryan as Advertising, Bummer

Oh yeah, ad conent woven into the story line and product placement is what I call must see tv. I don’t want to have to wait until the commercials to see a commercial, give me that right in the show I am tuning on to view. Ad Age has an article Subway Places More Than Just Product in NBC’s ‘Chuck’ and they tout the new greatness of advertisers to get into the show’s story line. Yeah, they not only have the logo prominetly placed in the show but he also says the tag line, how glorious! (sarcasm) Wasn’t this tried in the 70′s with limited success? Do they really believe that a generation that is far more sceptical of advertising messages to really buy into having this kind of blantant product endorsement written right into their show? Give me a break. And that’s exactly what they will get from their audience. Sure they will solve the problem of people down loading their content, only problem is they will have no audience watching the show either. The model must adapt, but this isn’t going to be the successful solution. Its an easy call from my seat.