As content creators, should advertisers embrace or attempt to shift visual culture?
The concept of “visual culture” only became obvious to me since I have started working abroad, in Trinidad, where the culture hasn’t been completely homogenized by the impact of mondialisation. The local visual culture is still mainly led by press, radio and billboard. So when I worked on my first campaign, and presented the first …
Is popular culture still ‘popular’ in our filtered social media bubble ?
Jib Fowles describes in his book “Advertising & Popular Culture”, the differences and the implicit relationship between Advertising and Popular culture. Written in 1996, I wonder how this relationship has evolved in this present day. Let’s start by outlining the meaning of popular culture. Pop-Culture is what we make out of the products and practices of a mass-produced culture. …
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Trends: When did we stop caring about great advertising ?
I remember when I was about 10 years old and I went to the cinema to watch the latest Disney movie with my parents, I remember enjoying watching the ads that were shown before the trailers. The ads were literally "wow!", there was something moving in them, either the music choice, the graphism, the emotions …
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