This bold, humanistic spot from Argentina goes where few North American banks dare to go.Viva tolerance! Article and blog: Creative Commons License 2008 Gavin BarrettThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Canada License.

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C'mon folks. Admit you've been here. You've got the t-shirt. Now ask yourself, on which side of the table were you?Article and blog, copyright Gavin Barrett 2009

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"Sweet ride promised in $1.22B streetcars" says the Toronto Star."Bombardier wins massive Toronto streetcar contract" says the Globe and Mail.Yes indeed, this is good news - good news for transit, for manufacturing in Ontario (the new cars will be made

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Brands began as marks burned onto rumps of rawhide.Many brands are still that today, and, often enough, even less than that: just marks minus the life they were imprinted on.The most successful brands step beyond the boundaries imposed by design.Even

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This is a good example of bad advertising that I recently stumbled on. (Tripped over?) What was OC Transpo thinking? A bad visual pun, a poorly executed ad. Tacky. Whoops - did I just say exactly what I felt? My

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As a long-time poet and poetry promoter, I thought I'd use April - being National Poetry Month - to throw the powerful magic of poetry into the rattle-bag that is Bheja Bazaar. Besides, poetry and social commentary have always made

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As a long-time poet and poetry promoter, I thought I'd use the excuse of April to nod at the odd appearance of buses and trains in verse. This excerpt of Philip Larkin's spectacular The Whitsun Weddings begins on board a

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Here's a spot from Brussels that pushes buses in a way designed to appeal to the social animal in all of us. Advertising Agency: Duval Guillaume Brussels, Belgium Creative Directors: Peter Ampe, Bottez Katrien Creation: Hans Kerkhoff, Raoul Maris TV

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