RSS

Topic: Brian Collins

  

Screen Grab

Is a brand what we see on the tube, or what we experience? Saatchi's Kevin Roberts takes on Ogilvy's Brian Collins.READ»

BRANDING   |  1 comment

The Imperfect Brand

It's not often that I find advertising for a line of beauty products appealing. I grew up, like most young women in this country, staring at the pages of Vogue and Seventeen, trying to imagine what I'd look like if I just could have ...READ»

Brand Promise on the High Seas

Brian Collins works as executive creative director for Ogilvy and Mather. After two computer crashes and a last-minute recreation of his presentation, Collins gave a fast-paced, good-humored speech about brand promise and ...READ»

Blowing Out Advertising's Walls

What's an ad? Brian Collins runs a studio within a giant agency. By using design to rethink brands, he and his band of creative misfits are changing the answer to that question.READ»

Screen Grab

Is a brand what we see on the tube, or what we experience? Saatchi's Kevin Roberts takes on Ogilvy's Brian Collins in this extended debate.READ»

water, AIGA, INDEX

Solutions for a Water-Deprived Planet

The raging creeks and still snow-packed peaks of Aspen, Colorado don't outwardly suggest any hints of a global water crisis, but it provides a reflective backdrop for design students who arrived here this week to tackle what ...READ»

BRANDING   |  4 comments

Dressed for Success

Will McDonald's staffers lose the attitude if they're dressed in hip baggy pants and hoodies instead of dismal perma-press duds? That's an $80M experiment the company says it's now willing to make. This week's Advertising Age ...READ»

The Good Brand

Brands are less and less about what we buy, and more and more about who we are. That means your cola can't just taste good. It has to feel good, too.READ»

Designer Approved

Who knows better than a top designer what the best-designed products are? We asked our five Masters of Design winners to share their top picks for home, office, and the road.READ»

LEISURE   |  Comment

Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

Your Ad Here

On page 51 of the current issue of FC, we talk about advertising that’s moved beyond traditional media and into the urinal, the airport and the parking lot. Now we can add to that list. An article today from the AP says US ...READ»

The Power of Design

Want to innovate? Want to forge lasting connections with customers? Want to outflank competitors? Want to grow? The creative and incisive folks featured in our second annual report on the Masters of Design have a lot to teach you.READ»

aiga design legends 2009

What Recession? Designers Storm the Waldorf for Gala

Despite the eco-friendly cardboard centerpieces, the ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria, with its velvet draperies and glittering chandeliers was an uncomfortably swanky venue for the annual AIGA Design Legends gala in a year when the ...READ»

DESIGN   |  1 comment

Legends of the fall

For a design writer, being at the annual AIGA Legends gala is like being a sportswriter at the All Star Game. Oh, look, there’s Paula Scher! Wow – behind that potted palm – it’s Massimo Vignelli. Don’t turn around, but ...READ»