For those of you who are interested in the swedish nominations of the sought after Gold Egg prize (Guldägget - Swedens advertising and new media awards) in the Internet and new media categories Ad-rag has gotten a hold of the entire list. Click on read more to read the list. I suggest you foreign people have a look as well - great new media and internet design is usually from the scandinavian countries and these lists serves as good inspiration.

Table one is here: Guld1.html Table two is here:Guld2.html Enjoy!

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan from Creativity chatted with me on the phone one day and asked if me and my alter ego Dabitch are "out of the closet". Oh yeah - Åsk Wäppling is so out of the closet now... *hahaha*

Dabitch is back
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Åsk Wäppling is the mistress and founder of ad-rag.com, a web destination for industry news, gossip and rants; her online persona is called "Dabitch". The site is very popular with ad insiders, despite (or thanks to) its many caustic comments.

It's easy for those of us in the insular ad world to lose sight of the public's perception of our work. With the Hollywood glamour associated with spot production, many prefer to see themselves as showmen rather than salesmen. Yet, the Monday night ratings for a program called The Greatest Commercials You've Never Seen indicates TV viewers have a different take.

Steve Jobs has ripped'em a new one. The latest batch of iMac ads, five in all, has now been released to the teeming masses. Love them or hate them, the expanded designs of the iMac shell were created to get attention, and it worked.