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I understand this advertisement is from early 2016. I completely missed it when it was released. The agency behind this effort is . Ironically, I haven’t even heard about this brand of atta till I stumbled on this ad recently! Could be…
Two interesting user-experience efforts from last week. First, at the Mumbai Airport, terminal 1. I had ordered pizza at Dominos and the lady, instead of saying they’ll call me when my order is ready, gave me a small, black brick and said…
Originally published in . Recently, a Tata Steel recruitment advertisement seeking candidates for their PR department was shared online on social media platforms. The advertisement had a flowchart design that made it mighty unique! Interestingly, there were quite a few comments on…
3 recent films (ad films) that I recently stumbled upon made me think very, very hard. All three films moved me immensely. They are gorgeously scripted, mounted and produced. They are thoroughly engaging and you will easily sit through them despite their…
Having written a LOT of electric vehicles in the recent past, and having taken very tentative steps in considering selling my car and buying an electric car (and dropping that idea owing a lot of constraints I stumbled upon in the process),…
Related read: . The timing of this campaign seems ominous. When the news about Jet Airways is gloomy and dismal, almost every day in the news, here comes Jet’s new campaign on its loyalty program. The video that surfaced on YouTube on November…
As I was waiting for my Vistara flight back to Bengaluru yesterday at Delhi’s T3, the lady next to me happened to see my laptop, with me on my LinkedIn timeline and went, ‘So, YOU are Karthik! I didn’t recognize you here,…