The Design Police

"Creative types" such as myself, and I'm not sure I know what that even means anymore...I used to know and all the cachet that went with that title...well, anyway, we have certain sensibilities that when something goes against those sensibilities our teeth just grind. Unoriginal work is usually at the top, with cliches or anything that smacks of laziness on the part of the right side of the brain included on that heap. And if anything doesn't hold our attention...did I say hold?...I meant to write if anything doesn't rivet our attention, making our jaws go slack, we usually see good reason to criticize, usually with a minimum of tact.

Anyway, this little site put out by the Design Police gives a handy little kit that makes our job a little easier.

Thanks to Jen for this.

Measure for Measure

L posted this blog from the New York Times on her Facebook page today, and I picked it, printed it out, and put it in one of the stalls in the mens room here. Usually there's reading material in there, but it's always printouts of the current news on the Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins. This is supposed to be a creative environment, but with the emphasis on truck and car accounts, plus this being a mix of marketing, strategy, delivery, and creative, the testosterone, frat-boy attitude tends to prevail. This is just me spitting in the wind, and no matter how many times it's come back to hit me in the face, I still can't seem to stop.

But, who would turn down just a little creative process advice from Susan Vega??