Profiles in Black Creativity: John deGraft-Johnson’s Touching Amazon Prime Ad
Throughout Black History Month, we’re partnering with agency owner Derek Walker on a series that highlights the ideas, perspectives and successes of Black advertising professionals. Today we’re featuring John deGraft-Johnson, a strategy director at Anomaly, and a commercial he worked on in 2016 while at creative agency Joint London. Created for Amazon Prime, the holiday…
Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for Sat, 13 Feb 2021
Dilbert by Scott Adams for Sat, 13 Feb 2021
A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose
A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them.
Cannabis Product Tie-In With Kristen Wiig’s Trippy New Comedy Highlights a Growing Trend
A new movie called Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, billed as escapist entertainment for Galentine’s Day, is a surreal candy-colored mashup of buddy comedy and crime thriller with random musical numbers thrown in for good measure. It even had a Stranger Things-inspired trailer. Sound like a head trip? Then the flick’s cross-promotion…