January 13, 2023Comments are off for this post.

Twitter → Mastodon

Just a quick note: Tweetbot was apparently cut off. Without it, there is no Twitter (for me). I won't use the official client with its algorithmic timeline, ads, tracking, and collection of dark patterns.

So, here's my Mastodon account: @[email protected].

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August 11, 2022Comments are off for this post.

Softness

Summer in Greece.

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April 14, 2021Comments are off for this post.

Visiting Reensland

We stare stupefied, with exophthalmic eyes, at the monster’s launch campaign published in the already worn out issue of Lürzer's Archive we're holding with trembling hands: both the print ads’ photography and the TVCs’ direction are signed by this guy Richard Reens. Photographer, director and DOP — for an epic ad campaign like a sign of the times — all over the planet jaws dropped. Who is this guy?!?

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August 21, 2020Comments are off for this post.

BT Talks

Acum câteva zile am avut plăcerea să stau de vorbă cu Andi Moisescu în fața microfoanelor — am vorbit despre 20+ de ani de carieră, despre antreprenoriat, Brandient și design, anii petrecuți în advertising, Singapore și Asia, rebrandingul BT și altele.

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May 27, 2020Comments are off for this post.

Why my Coke is better than the President’s Coke

The most powerful politicians in the world — being fed crisis data by their state information machines — lagged behind, failing to see, to think, to understand the pandemic dynamics. Data flowed free, for everyone to see. But not for them.

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June 26, 2019Comments are off for this post.

LP

On stage she’s a force of nature charged with blinding intensity. Off stage she’s a sweet and delicate human being, blessed with irresistible charm and absolutely disarming kindness.

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March 18, 20197 Comments

Romanian diacritic marks

Lack of standards, wrong standards and then slow adoption of good standards — no wonder the diacritics (ăĂ, âÂ, îÎ, șȘ, țȚ) turned into an endangered species. Magazine headlines, television supers and advertisements obliviously disseminate incorrect Romanian spelling, or non-Romanian letters.

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March 4, 2019Comments are off for this post.

Five thoughts for young designers

I left the Academy of Arts 25 years ago and I mostly practiced design since — with a short (by comparison) intermezzo in advertising. I spent a lot of time in 17 out of those 27 for hiring designers so I think I qualify to give some advice.

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