Nike and Kaepernick: The Dilemma of Corporate Social Activism
Nike’s announcement that it was going to include former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for its 30th anniversary advertising for the company’s iconic “Just Do It” campaign was unsurprisingly met with waves of both supporters and detractors bitterly divided
The Case for Ethical Advertising
Let's start at the beginning, and by the beginning, I mean now. You are currently reading this on some bound slices of dead tree, or a glowing screen. You are sitting, standing or lying somewhere on a planet that is
From Russia with Love: A Misinformation Campaign
Facebook has announced that 126 million of their American users may have encountered 80,000 published pieces of inauthentic, Kremlin-conceived content throughout the last two years (BBC, 2017). In the photo: Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. Photo credit: The Atlantic Accounts that can be
Let’s Talk About Periods
The word taboo, throughout history, has had a broad spectrum of meanings: forbidden, magic, frightening and untouchable are just a few examples of how the word has been translated and understood. It was Judy Grahn, however, who most notably brought
SILICON VALLEY: WHAT IT TAKES TO DO STARTUPS
Book Review: Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcìa Martinez (HarperCollins, 2016, 528 pages) Silicon Valley continues to be hot news in the age of Trump and anti-globalization and it should come as no surprise
Brenton Clarke Little – A Balance of Light and Lines
Brenton Clarke Little is a musician, graphic designer, and an iPhone photographer. His works explore the connection between nature and the urban landscape. His bold graphic design echoes this sentiment as we see the marriage between light, natural elements, and man-made structural
How Stop Motion got Clau Murra Started
The shortest videos tell the best stories : Meet Clau Murra Short, fun and playful – her videos have traveled all over and rejoiced kids and teenagers across the world. Spotted by a creative agency, they identified a business opportunity for
Meet London Agency Creative Director Matt Scutt
Matt Scutt is the Creative Director of London Agency, working across a variety of mediums: photography, television and music. Although he started off as a painter, he quickly discovered his considerable talent for the arts and graphic design. He started using Instagram as a way to share pictures for
Hank Willis Thomas- An Intersection of Art, Race and Identity
Hank Willis Thomas is a contemporary African-American photo-conceptual artist working primarily with themes of race, identity, history, advertising and popular culture. His work goes beyond just making art, to examining and exposing deeper divides in our culture. Thomas sees cultural disconnects everywhere in day-to-day