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Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design

Designers know that color is an extremely vital part of any design project and not a subject to be taken lightly.
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Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads, Second Edition

In this second edition of the irreverent, celebrated Hey Whipple, Squeeze This, master copywriter Luke Sullivan looks at the history of advertising, f
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The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's

Great copy is the heart and soul of the advertising business.
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The Copywriter's Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells

The Copywriter's Handbook is somewhat out of date. There are no references to Web sites or the Internet, and author Robert W.
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of wo
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Designing Brand Identity: A Complete Guide to Creating, Building, and Maintaining Strong Brands

This innovative approach -- blending practicality and creativity -- is now in full-color!
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Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Them Love You, Keep You Coming Back, and Tell

To longtime sales and customer-service pro Jeffrey Gitomer, boasting about a near-perfect customer-satisfaction rating of 97.5 percent is a major mist
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Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness

When Guerrilla Marketing was first published in 1983, Jay Levinson revolutionized marketing strategies for the small-business owner with his take-no-p
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When Mad Men ruled the world, or at least got smashed.

For those who are already pining for next season of Mad Men, why don't you dive head first into the golden years of UK advertising, the 60's
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Little 1 by Ann and Paul Rand

I can't be the only adgrunt who's procreated, so humor me here for a sec while I review a childrens book for wee little adgrunts-to-be.
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"Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" by Chip and Dan Heath

When I received the review copy of the book "Made to stick" by Chip and Dan Heath and started making dog-ears all over it I knew I had to sh
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George Parker's Madscam ain't no scam.

Why do they always whisper in perfume ads? Why are women always so happy to share their laundry detergent tips in adland?
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Xmas gift tips: Paul Arden Book

Ola fellow adgrunts, as we head into December, I thought I'd share some gift ideas of things that suit many adgrunts and pocketbooks.
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A Big Life - in advertising

I was working at McCann Erickson for the money, for little black dance dresses that showed off my Norwegian legs, for my baby daughters' smocked
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Word of mouth marketing - do we need regulation?

Have you heard? from the Chicago Tribune brings up a few worries about word-of-mouth-marketing.
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Ordinary Advertising. And How To Avoid it like the plague

by Mark Silveira Chapter One How Bad Is Most Advertising? It depends who you ask.
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Under the radar

WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF AN EPIDEMIC OF CYNICISM.
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What's a Saatchi?

Looking to topple IPG, WPP, Omnicom and Publicis? Who isn't!
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Unspecial effects for graphic designers - Bob Gill

Graphic designer says: to hell with special effects.
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Creative Company: how St Luke's became the ad agency to end all ad agencies.

Do you work somewhere that has a strong company culture? What do I mean by that? 'Company culture'?
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Ogilvy on advertising : How to run an advertising agency.

How to run an advertising agency.
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Standing on the shoulders of Giants.

I knew exactly what to expect - I thought - as I got review copies of Herman Vaske's new book "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" sen
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"Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads."

The Hack by Luke Sullivan. Many thanks to Luke Sullivan for e-mailing me this part of his book. - Dabitch Yes, clients can misbehave.
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Gill sans special effects

Bob Gill has finally crammed some of his best work into one book for the ultimate drool tool.
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The Other Side of Advertising by Wallace J. Gordon

tip from adgrunt Laters - One man's view from 40 years in the trenches of the advertising wars.
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For the creative who has everything

Paragraph type: Text & HTML The book Cutting Edge advertising has found it's way here thanks to Neil French, who wrote the foreword, and
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A Communicator's Credo

The big idea will always be what great advertising is all about
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George Lois, What's the big Idea?

'You'd be paranoic too if people were out to get you!' by George Lois. From the book; What's the big idea?
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Mad Ave Must Have

If you're an ad geek like me (and you wouldn't be on this web site if you weren't) you might be afflicted with an ad book fetish.
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Mad Ave Must Have

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Herman Vaske interviews Tim Mellors

It's only advertising. Nobody gets killed.
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Herman Vaske interviews Paul Arden

Paul Arden is one of the best advertising people in the entire world.
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Cutting Edge Advertising - real sharp!

As a cutting edge communicator, you need to know what is happening. You need to understand the changes.
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Benetton, The family the business and the brand

The Emperor's New Clothes Going further, Ponzano, the Veneto, 1992 For the new spring and summer campaign, Toscani had selected seven images c
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Inventing Desire

Dick Sittig took his girlfriend to Cannes in late June for the International Advertising Film Festival - a pleasant enough break from the Nissan Fanta
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Naomi Klein takes on brands and the "American dream" in No Logo

As an advertising student or a person who works in advertising, you need to know how the other half lives.
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A book written in email form? There's a novel idea.

from: Carla Browne-1/5/00, 3:05 pm to: All Departments re: I'm leaving now . . . but before I go there are some things you should know...!!!!
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Adcult USA and Ogilvy On Advertising

From "Adcult USA" and "Oglivy On Advertising" about Subliminal Advertising. "ADCULT USA" By James B.
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Strategy in Advertising. by Leo Bogart

Matching Media and Messages to Markets and Motivations What one little ad can do
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Burma Shave

Way back in 1925 young Allan Odell pitched this great advertising idea to his dad, Clifford.
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Bluff Your way in Advertising!

In this small book, you can learn the lingo, who’s who in the mess of mystery advertising agency titles, and how to panic appropriately during deadlin
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Adcult USA

"The history of advertising yo-yo’s between hard and soft sell.
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Paul Arden's Lecture at the D&AD

"Everybody probably does want to be good but not everybody are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes.

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