Ryan also founded Youth of Tomorrow, a brand design and strategy cooperative out of Austin, TX.
Ryan has designed all sorts of things that inhabit the real world. Most famously was the Scooba™, a robotic floormop from the makers of Roomba. He’s also designed stuff like cell phones, vegan bones, ECGs and holiday cards.
Ryan finds designing things for the real world and the invented, digital world not that different, really.
on August 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM
filed under: Advertising
Microsoft is paying Jerry Seinfeld $10 MILLION DOLLARS to combat the damage Apple has done with the “Get a Mac.” Campaign.
Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.’s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld.
Huh. Maybe if they don’t want to be seen as a stodgy oldster, they should hire someone a little bit more, I don’t know, contemporary? I mean, don’t get me wrong, Seinfeld was groundbreaking TV. In the 1990s. Which is almost 20 years ago.
The Greatest Music Collection is being sold at a massive discount, except nobody wants to buy it. And why would they? When almost everything in Paul’s collection likely exists in a digital form somewhere, who wants the burden of being the paladin over a massive physical media collection?
. But there’s something heartbreaking about this person who thought they were doing a great thing, a great service in saving all of those records, only to discover that when the time came to pass the torch along, no one would want the responsibility.
So, apparently it wasn’t the MTA who took issue with our subway ads, but our own media placement company. So, apologies, MTA. And thanks for holding the R for me this morning as I ran down the stairs. You guys are alllll right.
Despite your domination of the Airport bagged snacks theater, your product makes some substantial claims on its package, and it’s those very claims that have caused me to write you gentlemen in the hopes of some clarification and reparation.
UPDATE: So apparently it wasn’t the MTA, but our Media Placement Company who made the call to strike the Hello Health ads. So, deepest of apologies, MTA, for being under the mistaken impression that you were bad guy on this one. Tell you what? I’ll buy an unlimited Metrocard and promptly lose it as penance.
An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.
Wow, so hipsters are going to end culture, hmm? We’re all going to hell in a track bike basket?
Ok, so who’ll cop to it? Is it for Silent Hill V? Is it for Cloverfield 2? C’mon, ad world, which one of you is trying to pull one over on us this time?
(As an aside, I find it truly depressing that I can’t look at something like this without having a knee-jerk “it’s an ad for something” reaction. See guys? This is why we advise against hoaxism. It just leaves your customers feeling…duped.)
