Unfiltered dispatches by our vagabond intern, Andrew Santis, who is studying and working abroad. Frankfurt Day 1 I’ve never travelled as much as I have in the past month, and I love every part of it… except the actual traveling part. Traveling, especially with three items of luggage, can be difficult, tiring, irritating, etc. Getting […]
First there were private offices, then cubicles, then the open concept. Turning the modern office space into an environment conducive to creating good advertising has been a minor preoccupation since the first creative dragged his briefcase to work. In any case, I recently read two articles about office renovation experiments: one was about the Barbarian Group’s […]
When we first started Cardwell Beach, I had never worked at an agency before, nor was I even close to a great salesperson. Mike Beach always said a few things right from the very start, none of which I fully comprehended at the time. We were recently in the car on the way back from […]
In recent years, the much-maligned cubical farm has morphed into the supposedly superior open-space environment. It was promoted as a way to encourage collaboration and provide people with a sense of freedom. At best, the move was a lateral one—from “factory farm” to “free range”—because regardless of the specific environmental configuration, upper management typically still […]
