If it’s May, it must be time for watch advertising, all the better to celebrate the trifecta of late Spring events: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduation. Rather than focusing on the traditional (and often brand-indistinguishable) beauty shots (of product or wearer), Omega shows us precisely what makes its Co-Axial Chronometer tick with magical animation…
For some time now, Dove has been encouraging “a global conversation about the need for a wider definition of beauty” and has been celebrating women in all their multi-hued, multi-ethnic, full-figured, angular, youthful, older, freckle-faced diversity. While there were some negative comments about alleged photoshopping, the “Real Beauty” campaign has endured and evolved and now…
A week of extremes on the creative front. The good (really, the great): “The Waiting Room,” a new documentary many years in the making that chronicles a day in the life of the ER at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. The patients here are “the least of these”–the medically complex, the poor, the uninsured and…
While the NRA would prefer otherwise, the parents of Sandy Hook are refusing to change the subject or the conversation about guns. For them, the political has become exquisitely–and painfully–personal. Last night’s 60 Minutes devoted two segments to the “after” of their lives since December 14. It was television at its devastating best and if…
In a wonderful bit of synchronicity, my official career (advertising) and encore career (launching a primary care advocacy organization) came together thanks to a post on the Well blog of the NYT. Written by Dr. Danielle Ofri, it poses the question: what are you doing creatively these days? Ofri, of course, is talking to doctors…