BABY FOOD FOR CREATIVES

I see you over there, so young, eager, excited, confused and scared shitless. That's ok. Here's some help for your biggest creative assignment yet - selling yourself. Stay tuned for tips, articles and advice on everything from compensation, competitions and not coming off like an idiot, or worse, an asshole.

My Recent Advertising Life

This has been my life for the past few weeks. Not complaining, this is just how it is sometimes.

Hope you're ready. You're in for a wonderful/terrible/exciting ride.


The Past Five Months, Told In Gifs 
(All captions and gifs courtesy of This Advertising Life)


when I’m suddenly inundated with a crazy amount of work



when a project is made more complicated than it should be



when I’m given a brief with incomplete information

when you write, rewrite, read, reread, have the CD read it, revise, read it again and a typo still gets through
when my creative director admits to not liking my concept very much

when my partner and I argue over creative direction

when we work until midnight three nights in a row to prepare for a big client presentation and they cancel an hour before

when I’m encouraging my art director


quitting time on Friday after a particularly stressful week






at Wednesday, May 01, 2013
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About Me

Name: Neisha. The Tweed and the Copywriter.

Position: Creative Strategist + copywriter
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Motivation: The propaganda machine behind milk

Fears: The Easter Bunny, deportation and aliens (or giant bunnies) attacking NYC. *shudder*

Rock, Paper, Scissors?: Rock. Always.

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