Collaborations in Creativity & the Law ®
-Martha Engel, Attorney
I laughed when I saw yesterday’s Adweek article about Heinz adopting Don Draper’s “Pass the Heinz” pitch from the hit show “Mad Men.” Given the lackluster creativity observed from the Super Bowl ads, have we actually reached a point where a creative says “hey remember that Mad Men episode? let’s just…
It’s the week before Super Bowl, the week when I can’t look at my Twitter feed. Why? Well because I follow Ad Age, Adweek, the Minneapolis Egotist, and enough of you creative folks that my feed has been inundated with previews of Super Bowl ads over the past few days. While the information is enticing,…
We’re fans here of saying that we aren’t Dr. Nos; we try to create a symbiotic relationship between creatives and their lawyer counterparts. But more often than we realize, the advertising world affects the legal one. I may not yet have a decade in the legal business, but I can spot trends when I…
Today is Take Our Daughters to Work Day, which I thought was a lost day but apparently has been re-branded to the more gender-neutral “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.” Upon discovering that I happened to select this day for one of my blogposts during the year my dad retires, this…
I’m a car aficionado, but in my opinion and without mincing words, car commercials are boring. With few exceptions like the Young Vader ad from VW from the Super Bowl a few years ago, car commercials are stale and, more than any other genre, lack what I consider to be the “umami” of ads…