Dilbert Does Advertising, Ad Sex Is Too Design-Laced

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– Announcer Roy Coffman sends us this Dilbert comic strip in which Mom analyzes her son’s advertising abilities.

– Like a marketer who can’t wait to put put up a MySpace page, Scion has jumped into the Second Life. Time to move on to the Third Life.

– Ariel wonders why MK12 and other marketers are always asking her to “find my spot color or to uncoat my pantone” and why the use of sex in advertising “is so design-laced.”

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