Super Heroic Advertising Guild
For Halloween, we decided just dressing up wasn’t enough – we actually wanted to be Super Heroes this year. That’s why we founded the Super Heroic Advertising Guild and started fighting for justice. You can follow our adventures in each of our comic series, with descriptions and downloadable covers in the full post.
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The Best of Vincent Price – Master of the Macabre
Vincent Price (1911-1993) was the master of macabre and best known as an actor in horror films. Although the horror films in which he starred look seriously dated compared to today’s standards (e.g., mask, camera and special effects) and lack the intensity of the horror genre as we know it today, his films have remained popular among movie fans. For Halloween, I wanted to share a list of his greatest films.
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The Pumpkin Avengers
In celebration of Halloween and the upcoming film “The Avengers,” we made avatars for each member of the Avengers with a Halloween twist. Click below to download each pumpkin avatar individually.
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Top 10 Scary Films You Should Watch For Halloween
Halloween is a time for thrills and scares, a time when your heart pounds in your chest and adrenaline pumps through your veins. Here’s a list of 10 films (in no particular order) that should serve to scare the living daylights out of you. Just make sure you don’t watch them all at once.
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Online Technology Resources
Technology moves fast. Keeping up with all the news can be a job in and of itself. We put together this list of online technology resources to help you stay in the know.
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10 Bizarre Political Ads
No matter what your stance on politics, you have to agree that this new ad for Herman Cain is a little strange to say the least (see the lit cigarette and the drawn-out grin above). While the political arena is usually filled with rhetoric and appeals to Americans, some ads over the years have done so in ways that are definitely bizarre. Here are six other political ads that are out there.
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Bluecasting – A Case Study
Many were expecting the iPhone 4S to come packaged with NFC technology. While that didn’t happen to be the case, the new iOS 5 powered iPhone 4S is the first iPhone to utilize Bluetooth 4.0 technology. Proximity marketing technologies such as NFC and Bluetooth open up new avenues to marketers looking to explore transmitting marketing messages to consumers. The iPhone 4S’ Bluetooth 4.0 capabilities reminded us of a case study we conducted 6 months ago on Bluetooth proximity marketing, so we thought we should share our experience in light of the iPhone’s new hardware.
Vintage Muppets Commercials
Puppeteer Jim Henson is best known for the characters he created for “Sesame Street” and “The Muppet Show.” But before his success with “Sesame Street” and “The Muppets Show,” Jim Henson spent years working on hundreds of commercials throughout the 1960s and 70s. During that experimental period, he introduced and developed many of the characters as we know them today.
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National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month (or for debatably short, NaNoWriMo) is a program run by a nonprofit called the Office of Letters and Light. The premise is the promotion of “thirty days and nights of literary abandon,” encouraging writers to write a novel over the course of November by engaging in an online community of other authors.
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Branding: Brand Identity Flags
Much like a country’s flag, a brand’s identity is supposed to represent the brand as a whole. Looking at some of the most recognizable brand identities, one of the things that stands out the most is the colors that are used. Why were these colors chosen? What do the colors mean? What do they mean to the company? These are some important questions to ask when considering which colors should represent a brand. In this entry, 16 brand identities were turned into flags to represent each brand as if they were countries. The prevalence of each color was taken into consideration in making these flags.
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