wordarific

Cha-cha-changes.

Hey three people that read this blog sporadically. I'm not switching sites or anything. This blog will stay up and stay regular like it's on a steady diet of fiber but if you'd like a more attractive forum to enjoy the blog I've created one. It's my new website...well...my tumblr page. I needed to consolidate my massive amount of web outlets.

http://wordarific.tumblr.com/

Find a problem and solve it.

Sir James Dyson is my hero. He brings the idea of a brand baked-in to the product to life by identifying an issue big or small and finding a unique solution to it.

Introducing a fan with no blades.





http://www.dyson.com/fans/

What the hell, let it out.

I got with a buddy of mine not too long ago to do a fun project for the Kansas City library. They're forming this really cool group for 20-and-30-something book and knowledge freaks. It's obviously to keep that age involved in the library. Anyhow, we named the group the Contrarian Society and created this idea for a campaign that would use obscure (more obscure than the examples shown) lines from beloved books that only our target would know. Thankfully we were the target so creating the stuff came easy. Sadly this project never went anywhere but I'd thought I would show. It's pretty simple but I can just imagine where we could take this group and this campaign.

This is it.

I've been slaving over this thing for months. I've killed and recreated three times and finally I think it's here. I've been needing to update my book like any creative should and I wanted to experiment with a different format. So, here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpylYWKEkbo

Check her out.

The Ad-o-matic.

It even burns the revolutionary original ideas and comes of with safe concepts!

The Ad-O-Matic from James Kiersted on Vimeo.

May I suggest.

I love advertising. Don't get me wrong. But music was my first love. I'm lucky to have been in a musical home where playing an instrument was as fundamental as learning to spell. My parents forced (not true but that's how it felt at the time) my siblings and I to play piano from the age of five. Not for some Joe Jackson-ish get-rich scheme but for our own benefit. The problem was, at the time, we didn't realize the benefit. Along the way I picked up a trumpet and a few other instruments but by eighteen I was given the opportunity to forego it all. I did foolishly. Stupid me. One bright spot is this passion for music I have fused into my DNA. And though my wife may not think so, I feel like I have pretty good taste in tunes though lately I've skewed moody emo-teen. So here are some things I've been listening to. Try them. I'm always open for suggestions. Any good stuff I'm missing?