Bamboo bicycles

My friend Dan has been talking about building a bamboo bike for ages.

He moved up to Brisbane last year so I'm not sure how his bamboo bike build is progressing.

Suffice to say I think he'd like this ad.

I know I certainly do.

Shut up and listen

Love these posters.

Beautifully designed to capture the look and tone of classic safety posters.

Sadly I think they should actually go into production because we really need them.

In our trains. In our offices. And in our restaurants.

Posters designed by Ted Slampyak.

The genius of CDP

When I was a kid growing up in England we used to often say that the ads were better than the programs.

Not all the programs obviously. But many of them.

And most of the ads that have stayed with me for a lifetime were created by Collett Dickenson Pearce.

This morning someone sent me a link to a YouTube channel of 100 of CDP's best tv ads.

It was a real trip down memory lane. Back to a time of Chopper bikes, Spangles and Space Hoppers.

And like those three iconic seventies products CDP are no longer with us.

But gee their works still looks great.

Go check it out here.

Groovy advertising man!

This classic from the mid sixties looks and sounds like it was written by two old blokes in tweed jackets who had never even heard of The Beatles.

Still kinda groovy though.

What I love is the short sharp feature led voiceover.

Kinda like what Apple do now really.

But back to those two old blokes for minute - looks like they did a "hip with the kids" press ad too!

The business we're in

At lunch with a friend the other day we had a great chat about how we'd been spending less time doing ads and far more time creating stuff.

Obviously the definition of stuff is open to interpretation but I think you get my drift.

Anyway our key point of discussion was how agencies now say they're in the ideas business rather than the advertising business.

Which is great. But is it really true?