Spotlight Ideas

This post is focused on blogs by people such as: copywriters, art directors, TV and viral artistic directors, graphic designers, and so on (creatives of this kind in general)- for the general reader (of advertising, marketing and media).

Advertising creative work – general

• Ads of the world – ‘is a commercial advertising archive and community showcasing the best and most interesting creative work worldwide’
• AdGoodness – ‘to showcase only the best advertising and design around the globe. But sometimes you have to show the very worst as well in order to know what great ads and designs are’
• Adland – ‘advertising stunts and marketing mishaps. The latest advertising news from a creative point of view’
• I believe in adv
• Adverbox
• AdFreak
• AdPulp – ‘Daily Juice from the Ad Biz’
• Make The Logo Bigger – ‘Art Director stuff about brands, advertising, and pretty much anything else’
• Ernie Shneck calls this advertising? – by ex Creative Director and now freelance creative. 
• Ad of da month
• Adhurl – Advertising, ad campaigns, ad agencies, and the people that make it happen
• The Inspiration Room – focusing on TV, print and music

Advertising – interactive

• Adverblog

Graphic design (and web design, and design general)

• David Airey – graphic / logo design
• Noisy Decent Graphics – graphic design and communication, ideas and brands
• Core 77 – Industrial design, offering articles, discussion forums, hosts portfolios, database of design firms, and more.
• I love Typography
• Ideas On Ideas – design plus brands
• Designers who blog Designers – ‘A Design blog for designers, photographers, writers, marketeers, etc., who blog’
• Smashing Magazine – web design 
  
• Veerle – web design
• Mark Boulton – ‘deisgn thinking, web delivery’
• Colour Lovers – ‘colour + design community for creative inspiration’

Social advertising / non-profit

• Osocio

• Dave Trott’s Blog – by Creative Director at CST Advertising, London
• Dan Germain – creative at Innocent ‘I take care of creative stuff – writing, design, adverts’.
• Fresh Creation – The sole reason to start this website was, and still is, to inspire people so that they come up with even better new great ideas and fresh creations – [blog author] works in various creative areas: concepting, copywriting, writing articles, shooting videos, making music, stand-up comedy and designing websites
• Bad banana blog – By a Creative Director/ agency Co-founder  based in Lincoln, Nebraska
• The Ideas Brothers – blog by two brothers who work at different agencies in London
• The daily (ad) biz – general conversations about the ad business from the perspective of a creative
• Ad Broad – ‘random thoughts on the [advertising] industry’ by a copywriter
• Incredible Flying Car - Creative, London

Creative / Cartoons

• Gaping Void – ‘Besides “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”, my main gig is Marketing Strategist for Stormhoek, a small South African vineyard, My other main interest at the moment has been working with Microsoft onThe Blue Monster Project,The most-read page on gapingvoid is “How To Be Creative

• Russel Davies – / – Blog about account planning with interest / flavour in design
• Crackunit.com - by an account planner with a creative (creative director) background
• Fallon Planning - ‘Share ideas that inspire. FALLON PLANNERS (and co-conspirators) are freely invited to post trends, commentary, obscure ephemera and insightful rants regarding the experience of branding.’

Getting into advertising (creative)

• All about the Crit
• Creative in London