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IdeaMill is a full-service advertising agency for brand-aware marketers who are frustrated with a lack of brand-centric advertising ideas. Ideas that draw their customers closer through brand truisms, interactivity and entertainment. Dedicated to the prolific generation of brand building ideas, this site is an external representation of what happens in our offices every day. Ideas flying to and fro. Some ours. Some not. All good. Welcome. Enjoy.



Steal from the Best
Friday March 31st 2006, 11:27 am
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like crispin porter

Maybe the advertising industry should take this junior creative team’s lead and aspire to be more like Crispin Porter. Just sayin’.

Wake Up…
Friday March 31st 2006, 9:10 am
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Ben and Rich

There is a junior creative team out there calling themselves, Don’t Sleep, and they’re looking for a job. Luckily that hasn’t kept them from working, check out this bit from their book: Wake Up….

By the Public for the Public
Wednesday March 29th 2006, 8:54 am
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Art Matters
photo credit: trevor haldenby

Welcome to the first ever equal opportunity Museum exhibit. Join this group dedicated to the expression “Art Matters” by sharing your original, digital art portraits.

The Art Gallery of Ontario is launching an exhibition created entirely by the public. The exhibition, called In Your Face, opens July 1, 2006. One of the AGO’s initiatives as part of Toronto’s Live with Culture celebration this year, In Your Face will allow everyone to become a creative part of the Gallery’s future.

Portraits submitted to this Flickr group may be included in a computer kiosk slideshow presentation coinciding with the In Your Face exhibit. There will not be any physical prints made of the Flickr group portrait submissions. A Flickr photostream will also be incorporated into the AGO’s web site at www.ago.net.

Portraits will be credited with the information supplied in the associated Flickr record.

PS - Please add only two images to the group pool per day. Also, please keep your photos kid-friendly and Safe for Workplaces.

Happy Portraiting!


More Mobile than Ever
Tuesday March 28th 2006, 9:24 am
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PDA Friendly

photo credit: kirillt

We’ve made some changes to our blog. It’s now more PDA friendly than ever. So check us out when you’re on the go. There is always a big idea to behold at IdeaMill.

Winner.
Monday March 27th 2006, 8:52 am
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Cinderella?

photo credit: AP Photo/Ed Reinke

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Mahatma Ghandi

No Need to Look Far.
Thursday March 23rd 2006, 9:09 am
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General Electric Sign

Photo Credit: Matthew Bradley

“Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Thomas Edison



Never change your point of view.
Tuesday March 21st 2006, 9:23 am
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

Frank Lloyd Wright


Talk to the Gut
Monday March 20th 2006, 8:28 am
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Interpretation of Bernbach's interpretation of the Beetle

“You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.

William Bernbach

More Madness
Friday March 17th 2006, 9:12 am
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Coach K Destroys Another Net

“Erect no artificial walls that might limit potential, stifle creativity, or shackle innovation.”

Coach K

Let the Madness Begin
Thursday March 16th 2006, 8:36 am
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With war nerves tense, the final defense

Is the courage, strength and will

In a million lives where freedom thrives

And liberty lingers still.

Now eagles fly and heroes die

Beneath some foreign arch

Let their sons tread where hate is dead

In a happy Madness of March.

- H. V. Porter

(author of the term, “March Madness“)