As our design department will attest, I take great enjoyment in filleting and grilling sacred cow. If you want to set me off on a tirade, just mention the latest self-indulgent John Maeda video or e-mail me a link to a bit of overly-obvious all-too-easy Cory Arcangel tech hackery. Of course, my targets will never know the [...]
December 26, 2008 • 5:20 pm • POSTED BY David Burden
Most of you probably do not know that one of the primary reasons I am in this business is because of my dad. He was an “ad guy” from the 60’s through to the 90’s, having worked as an account manager on the agency side at notable shops like Doyle Dane Bernbach (now DDB Worldwide) [...]
December 23, 2008 • 12:18 pm • POSTED BY Jon Fruman
A few weeks ago a small team of 160over90 employees went to Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland for a discovery trip. It was a rainy day that Wednesday in Baltimore, but all that Loyola had to offer was still tops. Most notably we went to a basketball game against Coppin State and visited The Backstretch [...]
December 10, 2008 • 12:04 pm • POSTED BY Adam Flanagan
An old intern of ours works for an agency in NY that is doing a pretty cool promotion for the 2nd season of Flight of the Conchords. You can submit a lipsynch video of the song “Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros.” One of the videos will actually get chosen to air on HBO. Check out the site here.
Last night a few of us from the office headed out to the Philadelphia Creative Guide Toys for Tots event at Northbowl, a local bowling/bar/lounge/general hip&cool place to hang out. The following is a record of our night, which included beers, bowling, the best mac & cheese in town as well as the musical stylings of [...]