Thoughts on Writing
Nick AsburyThoughts from a creative writer, ad critic and poet – on the ethics and politics of advertising, and why human creativity beats corporate purpose
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Cultural Tourette's – and advertising's 'white bear' problem
This week saw an unfortunate and much-discussed episode at the BAFTA awards where two black actors on stage (Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo) were interrupted by a shout of the ‘n-word’, coming from John Davidson, a member of the audienc...
Race to the bottom
Transport for London (TFL) is the latest advertiser to fall foul of the Advertising Standards Authority for inadvertently “reinforcing a negative stereotype about black men”.
There’s a painful irony, in that TFL has long seen itself occupy...
Creativity needs criticism
“It is very much more difficult to talk about a thing than to do it,” wrote Oscar Wilde in The Critic as Artist. Adland has a way of proving him right every day.
The latest example comes in the form of a campaign by D&AD, alongside a podca...
Strong piano, weak men
This year’s John Lewis ad is the silent scream of an emasculated ad industry adrift in an age of feminised identity politics, no longer able to articulate anything meaningful beyond weak, muscle-memory gestures and commoditised nostalgia....
Embarrassing busybodies
Channel 4 has released its latest ‘Mirror on the Industry’ report, in which it purports to monitor the advertising industry’s performance when it comes to diversity and ‘representation’ in its output.
No one has ever asked Channel 4 to do...
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