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Everyone is up in arms over Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle jean campaign, calling it "Nazi coded."

The pushback is partly because this concept is tired, the design is ugly, and none of it is really new or mould-breaking at all.

A lot of people are asking themselves this, and many experienced ad people are blaming DEI, or the need to be "safe" and not offend, but that doesn't explain abrasive brand voices like Tampax on Twitter.

The other day I saw a forum post where a British bloke asked whether Swedes had a "snob" supermarket like they do in the UK. He was trying to describe the Tesco phenomenon and wondered if Swedes had something similar.

When there is a pandemic and you're eating freeze-dried meals, you may find that you suddenly have a campaign idea.

I had a lot of fun designing the "Joy of pandemic cooking" cover today. 

There's always a challenge in attracting people who may never have heard about Adland, to Adland.

Brown&Red is a new kind of ad agency.

I don't understand why people must rip adland's ads. Someone needs to explain this to me.

There were many brilliant people that tutored us at the SCA back in the day, the two that really made their permanent impression on me were Dave Trott and Paul Arden

While I was off busy celebrating "jul", episode 11 of the advercast went live. In it, we spoke about breeder bingo, salaries, bitchiness, sex and sexism and I've already summed up my thoughts here.

Have you seen Duval Guillaume’s latest ad for Alfa Romeo yet?