Posts By: stradvertising

I am writing this blog post because I am not sure if we have one due this week or not. I would like an A in this class so I would rather be safe than sorry. I wanted to take this post make a thank you for Professor Croom and to reiterate some of the high … Continue reading Safe and Confused →

It’s crazy to think this is my last blog post for this class. Crazy to think how fast the semester went by and crazy to think it’s almost over. Professor croom did a great job with his limitations and set things he needed to teach. I do wish it was more of an Adobe focused … Continue reading Bye bye →

As the sun sets on another semester and another course this blog post lets me reflect on the things I have and have not learned in this course. I get to talk pros and cons and give my own personal OU eval. Let’s start. It is difficult to find one single word that sums up … Continue reading Goodnight Ad Copy and Layout →

These last few weeks we have been working with the adobe program photoshop. I think everyone has heard of photoshop and its wondrous capabilities when it comes to editing pictures, but one thing I was not aware of is that it can be used to design websites. Well, kind of, anyway, it can design how … Continue reading Photoshop is not picture perfect →

I am proud to say I, Gage Bauer, have made something in Adobe suite. It might be a very simple and awkwardly drawn puzzle piece, but it counts. It is also much better than the atrocity that the newest, and soon to be the newest failure, a bar on campus corner, Chyxs and Styx. Their failure … Continue reading Chyxs and Styxs makes me syxs →

Positioning, it’s something that Al Ries and Jack Trout laid out all the way back in 1980. Companies who do not hold to the laws of Positioning, that is the first two companies in a consumer’s mind will prosper and the others will slowly but eventually suffer, will suffer for it. They laid out several … Continue reading The Google Pixel is doomed to fail →

I will start with this, I am not a fan of capitalizing on holidays. I think they are special periods people experience a few times a year, but with that said, what’s up with Valentine’s Day? February 14th, it is a day of love for some and loneliness for others. Everyone is reminded of whom … Continue reading Valentine’s Day, where you at? →

This last week was dominated by our first project in Indesign. I am a planner and that is where my heart and mind are so I spent my first two and a half days or so doing research over the brand I was working on, Snickers. The research went well, but it’s hard to improve … Continue reading Blurred Pictures →

These past two weeks have been genuinely interesting because it has been over things that I have next to no idea about. The different forms of fonts were interesting and I started to the hang of the different games that were provided. (Google images) The teacher or Mr. Croom or whatever person I am supposed to be … Continue reading InDesign has me in confusion →

While I am an Advertising major, and I do find the creative side of things extremely interesting, I am an Account Planner at heart. This side of the tracks is completely unfamiliar to me. Not so much from a conceptual standpoint, but from a technical standpoint. I understand the “puking” or brainstorming process of simply … Continue reading Knee Jerk Reactions →