Congratulations to Andrew Gaynord the Virgin Media People's Choice Award winner 2009 who brings us this Friday Fun, a mockumentary of CGI-brows.

Eh, really I'm just using any excuse I can to mention Richard Thompson's awesome comic strip Cul De Sac.

Ah, but those mascots figure prominently in this weeks-old (see how I'm continuing with that?) Dunkin' Donuts ad. Good for a laugh, and the folks at AdFreak (where I first saw this) like it too.

But it's not getting me any closer to trying those biscuits.

What would happen if Mad Men was MA Men set in Boston 2009 instead of New York cirka 1960? We'll, theres be a lot more fucking swearing that's fer fucking sure. Wicked awesome.

It is time to test your skills, and try not to get too hungry as we play cheese or font a game made by @mogrify because @dickchiclets said something funny on twitter. Take THAT all ye doubters who think twitter is all about announcing what you had for lunch, it's a nerd-game-development tool you fools!

In the game of Cheese or Font almost everyone gets stumped at least once by Helvetica.

Next game: Fonts that sound like medical conditions.

Dear stupid banner ad. How I love thee. Let me count the ways.

You blink like it was Netscape 1999. Looking at you makes me think of Jakob Nielsen screaming "it is simply evil" in despair.

You promise me a way of generating free electricity forever. In a software box. Software. So whatever I'll be doing in order to break the laws of thermodynamics, I'll be doing it on with a computer running on electricity. Good to know. You're selling a perpetual motion machine - oh sorry a "zero point magnetic power generator" - in a software box. This makes me laugh so hard I've ruined my makeup today.

You link to the most useless and complicated diagram of all time, and that alone makes me laugh out loud. It's "the grid" see? So thank you dear Magniwork, for all the laughs. Good luck in rounding up the suckers with that banner ad.

xkcd homages the "Most interesting man in the world" campaign by introducing us to his complete opposite.

There are many many signs out there, and it seems almost as many people who get annoyed by how the signs are written.

lowercase L has a funny example of peoples bad habit of writing "please" as "PlEASE", and sign-cop has RETAlIATED.

Then there's The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks that has us in stitches showing off signs like the "healthy" snack one.

Then there is this guy, who photographs the horror in New York, he has pages & pages of misspelled signs.

ultimate sign-fixing heroes are Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, still, even after they got arrested for fixing a typo in the Grand Canyon.

What's your hobby?

Starring 38 interns, Chuck Porters paper cut-out, several small dogs, an Enertia bike mentioned so often it is as if they have sponsored this video, and a fake beard that quite frankly, scares me - this is the ad-world hit of 2009 welcome to the world of an intern from the CP+B interns. Thanks to The Denver Egotist for sharing this laugh with us.

Poor out some milk for the interns who never made it. That's right man, respect!

welcome to the world of an intern

Agencyspy shows us Zach Golden's buzzword bingo (2, 3, 4) and I'm really disappointed that it's not an iPhone app yet because I remember playing the very same type of bingo game on my compaq ipaq (or whatever it was called) in the late nineties. (There I go again, sorry). Either way, it's fun to play in meetings but I warn you that you might get in trouble for it (I did).

Our pal (and adgrunt) Wendell has found the ultimate wolf-dog shirt image. See, we haven't quite finished laughing at the amazon reviews of the wolf-shirt funny which became a giant web-traversing "meme bomb" as Wendell put it, back in May.
Behold, now Wendell found the ultimate wolf-shirt photo. Yes, it's a wolf-shirt dude (note: not made awesome by wearing a wolf-shirt) standing next to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Too good, man. Way too good.

I'm so easy to please. cartoons with nerdy ad-injokes make me laugh. This one is a perfect example.

I got a little carried away when procrastinating today, and by popular demand here is a more permanent place for these tweets. For added fun, and to prove twitter is not just a megaphone, conversations do happen, replies are included. :)

Art Director Wisdom #1: People only say "Great idea" if you execute it flawlessly.

Art Director Wisdom #2: He who doesn't put the marker cap on properly is an evil, evil, person.

Art Director Wisdom #3: There are no bad fonts, there is only bad typography.

Art Director Wisdom #4: Even the best copywriter you've ever worked with, can't find a way to explain what you really do to your mom.

Art Director Wisdom #5: The x-acto knife is not a toothpick

Art director Wisdom #6: Spraymount can be used as hairspray and removed with olive oil or conditioner, despite what cw @caff thinks.

~ hakestam: @dabitch Spraymount can also be used as napalm light with cigarette lighter and some basic training. 3M never mentions this on can, strange
~ darrellwhitelaw @dabitch don't forget xacto knife throwing stars.

Art Director Wisdom #7: Keeping your burnisher collection in a pen jar drives your copywriter crazy. fun!

Art Director Wisdom #8: Permanent ink stains can be removed with rubbing alcohol or nailpolish remover.

Art Director Wisdom #9: SuperGlue is the best band-aid for deep bleeding paper cuts when you need to keep blood off your bristol board.

Art Director Wisdom #10: Design the whole ad from the ugliest thing in it. Usually, that's the logo.

Art Director Wisdom #11: Make logo 30% smaller than you want.When client wants it bigger, enlarge 10%. Repeat 3 times. They never ask 4 times

Art Director Wisdom #12: The punter can never love the line if they can't read it.

Art Director Wisdom #13: Wax gets in your eyes, hair and everywhere except the back of the galley. (Young adpups will not get this)

~ thomdinsdale: @dabitch You're right, I don't get it. :P
~ garrick_s: @dabitch You're killing me with these! I remember picking bits of copy off my clothing every evening after a day of paste-up.

Art Director Wisdom #14: If fellow AD lets you touch their markers, place them back in holder in exactly the color order you found them in.

~ nicole_fletcher @dabitch completely agree on the marker issue. Total pet peeve of mine!

Art Director Wisdom #15: "Don't bleed on the boards!" when co-worker slices finger off is not insensitive, it's being helpful.

~ Zindella @dabitch Yep. Innovation comes through taking something away.

Art Director Wisdom #16: Everyone in the world can read 5pt if it's on the right paper.

Art Director Wisdom #17: It's not about making it simple, it's about how you make it simple.

Art Director Wisdom #18: If copywriter ever calls you a wrist, always refer to them as "the textguy" from then on.

~ strawberrycough @dabitch i'd call you a fart director, myself.

Art Director Wisdom #19: People never read the copy unless it's Lorem Ipsum

Art Director Wisdom #20: Fonts are like voices. Saddam Hussein speaks in Futura Extra Bold Condensed, all caps.

~katrinalimbaugh: @dabitch not any more he doesn't... :/

The mad men tweets has now spread all the way to office-machines taking part as the Xerox 914 tweets away about missing Miss Peggy Olsen and "Paper Out". I can't wait until the by now famous Boylan Seltzer bottle (I have one, they're so sexy) starts tweeting away! "bubble, fizz - cap opens" and other important events in a bottles life are a must follow. ;)

Other Mad men tweeters: Mad Men, another Peggy Olson with new & improved flip-do, Bertram_Cooper & Bertram Cooper, Roger Sterling, Joan Holloway, Paul Kinsey, Bobbie Barett, Jimmy Barett, Betty Draper & Betty_Draper, Anna Draper, Francine Hanson, Pete Cambell, Trudy Cambell, sly off the wagon Duck Phillips, Ken Cosgrove, Harry Crane... and the list goes on and on.

Famous non-fictional ad people twittering from the era include Bill Bernbach, David_Ogilvy and still living and breathing ad legend Mary Wells, a.k.a Mary Wells Lawrence. I wonder what she thinks about that twitter account from her younger self.

Ok now, fess up, which one of you adgrunts designed the package of Cascadian Farm Frozen Broccoli? Your faces in the florets have been noticed by eagle eyed photographer Alicia Carrier at bread and honey - where she shows some nice enlargements of the packaging. BU-STED, mate. Though not soon enough for the client to notice, don't you just love that?

Tip, for alien looking cooking, have some trippy looking Romanesco broccoli, showing fractal forms for dinner. ;) Steam the Romanesco for 15 minutes or so, while stirring three tablespoons of olive oil, one tablespoon of lemon juice or flavored vinegar, one clove of minced garlic and twelve large Kalamata or other tasty olives chopped into quarters together as a dressing for it. Yum.

Hat tip to our pal (and soon padre) cip - creator of Gregarius RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator

This September 2004 cover of LIFE magazine seems like it foretold something in retrospect.... I think it's giving me an idea.... Bear with me now.. Everyone, vote for McCain, then after they're sworn in, have someone kidnap Palin and replace her with Tina Fey. Wait for McCain to step back due to health reasons, and presto; Tina Fey is POTUS! Now that would be a hoot and a half.

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Adland's fave toon-artist David Jones brings us a look at what might happen if he did the Mad Men thing.

I started advertising in Lexington Ky for Pet Butler. I created these bumper ads. I catch people every day taking pictures as they drive behind or when it is parked in a lot.

See a larger image if you wish, and below:

Cracked.com just listed: The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future - bless the little sods for looking over their stats and realizing that the "5-lists" bring them traffic so that they could bring us this.

They freak us with the funny, as when they say:

Google is already working on customizing its search results based on your personal browsing history, which requires only that it maintains a comprehensive database of every single thing you've ever tried to find on the web.
No big deal, right? After all, it's not like it would be embarrassing for you if all this information ever got out. You know, like when AOL made that information public on millions of its customers.

This reminds little ol' me of when I witnessed one of the fellas from Chaos Computer Club hold a lecture at HIP97. He explained that credit cards will "eventually hold all information about me" -- "and you"- so therefore; "I go out of my way to fuck up the system. I rent those (porn) films in a hotel rooms even when I'm not in the hotel room." (laughter from audience) "No, because I don't rent those films!" (loud cackling from audience)

In an awesome parody (good voice copy!) of Man Vs Wild, here's Man Vs BANNER ADS! Yes, those banner ads can be deadly, at least to your OS.