Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
Leo BurnettRead
Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
Interpretation
Create content that is straightforward, appealing, and enjoyable for the audience.
This quote by Leo Burnett emphasizes the importance of simplicity and appeal in creative work, particularly in advertising and design. By advocating for simplicity and memorability, it calls for creators to engage their audience through visually inviting and enjoyable presentations that captivate interest and promote readability.
In practice
During a workshop on graphic design, to emphasize the importance of clear visuals...
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.
A good ad which is not run never produces sales.
We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'
Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
I love that because that's what I'm supposed to be doing - whether it's accepted b everybody or not. I'm supposed to be pushing that envelope and trying new things. And people are supposed to say, Hov, you might have went too far.
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.
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