The Denver Egotist

Students, Let Your Voices Be Heard

Our Schools of Fools editorial has sparked a fantastic conversation. It’s gotten us thinking about ways to do more than just flap gums. As a start, we’d like to get a feel for how many future creatives are hanging on every twisted word The Egotist lovingly pens – so we understand whether this site is the right forum to feature some additional schooling of our own crafting.

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Creative Crackdown, Honest Bros.

We have differing opinions of the Honest Bros. work within The Egotist fold. Some of us are thinking about adding them to the recommended list and some of us would like to see more work out of them before a decision’s made. We’ve been honest with them about our take, so they thought a creative crackdown on their portfolio might be in order. In their words, “throw us to the wolves and see if we can still hold our heads high in the aftermath.” You asked for it, fellas.

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2 days ago / Comment [23] / Link

Schools of Fools

Let us ask you a question. Is it worse for a college to fail a student out of a major they aren’t equipped to succeed in, or to make them feel hopeful throughout their college years that they’ll get a career related to their degree – rewarding them with false grades simply for completing assigned projects – then send them out doomed to fail? The latter is happening at Colorado’s art schools.

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5 days ago / Comment [36] / Link

The Egotist Inverviews: Stefan Sagmeister

After one postal mishap resulting in the loss of the original interview, a month-long trip to Asia promoting his new book (buy the damn thing, it’s brilliant), and heavy back and forth with his publicist, we finally have Stefan Sagmeister’s interview in our hands. We didn’t want to do the typical Q&A he’s been through a million times. So we got together with a group of the best creative talent in town and put this visual masterpiece together. Hope you like it.

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7 days ago / Comment / Link

The Egotist Interviews: Fwis

Fwis, a small graphic design boutique, was all but unknown as of a year ago. Now that they’ve moved out of Denver and on to greener pastures, they’re blowing up. The Egotist asks them about what they think of Denver, their recent feature in PRINT magazine, and arm-wrestling.

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14 days ago / Comment [12] / Link

Advertising is Dumb

Editor’s Note: It’s Take Your Child to Work Day. We’re letting the little ones learn the ropes around here. Everyone is getting a lot out of it and the kids seem really interested in what mom and dad do for a living. Following is an editorial written by Jeffrey, Age 8.

Advertising is dumb. Jimmy’s dad drives a truck. That would be cool. How come you don’t drive a truck? Everyone here looks sad. There should be more candy. And you should have a big hamster cage. With tubes. I have to go to the bathroom. How come you stay here all the time? That guy is fat. Is he your boss? I could draw that. My trees are better. Do you want to watch me do a push up? Do you have any gum? That lady is pretty. I bet Mommy would like her. How come you don’t wear a tie? Cindy’s dad wears a tie. I don’t like it here. You drink a lot of medicine. Does Mommy know you are sick? Do you have a lunch room? Are we having meatballs? I still have to go to the bathroom. When do we take a nap? I want to go home. Advertising is stupid.

19 days ago / Comment [6] / Link

Question of the Day: Did You Earn It?

You took some money from a client today. The question we have for you is did you earn it? Did you trash a great headline or piece of design and push through the wall to get to something that one-upped it? Or did you settle so you could go home and sit on the couch? Did you push back when your brain (or gut) told you your client’s decision or revision was a bad one? Or did you go on autopilot and crap it out? Did you do something that would get a hot chick in bed with you after hearing your story? Or would you turn off even the most desperate cougar? Seriously, did you earn it today? Or did you create something any half-baked hack could?

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20 days ago / Comment [10] / Link

We Feel Good

Here at the worldwide headquarters of The Denver Egotist in Brighton, we’re in a decidedly chipper mood. Maybe it’s the spring weather. Maybe it’s the return of baseball and the Avs’ playoff hopes. Maybe it’s the longer days and the sweet smell of charcoal and lighter fluid in the air. Or maybe it’s the Xanax and Bloody Mary we had for breakfast. Whatever it is, we feel good. And we feel like spreading some of it around.

So, instead of ripping the work and complaining about bad clients and all things crappy, we want to hear about the good. We want to hear about the clients who get it.

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25 days ago / Comment [4] / Link

Rocky Mountain Low

Awful. Embarrassing. Hack. Ridiculous. Contrived. By now, we’re all familiar with the appallingly bad “Let’s Talk Colorado” campaign for Colorado Tourism created by MMG Worldwide, Kansas City. We would offer you a link as a refresher but really, why bother? However, what is worth checking out is the latest addition to the campaign — the online crap.

Andy Bosselman alerted us to some recent musings on the work by Westword big wig and straight-shooter Patricia Calhoun. She takes aim at an email newsletter inviting would-be visitors to learn how to talk like a Coloradan. She nails it, so please check out her comments. We spent some time exploring the glossary of Colorado lingo and the only phrase we’re left repeating over and over is “Are you fucking serious?”

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34 days ago / Comment [12] / Link

The Egotist Interviews: Benjamin Ray

For those of you who remember years back (alright months) when we put out a request for questions to ask Xylem CCI’s Benjamin Ray, and even for those of you who don’t remember, the wait is finally over.

We apologize for the delay, as it was mostly our fault for taking so exhaustively long to finally put together a solid set of questions for the intriguing Growth Officer. Regardless, it appears Mr. Ray took the time to put some real thought into his answers, so we hope you find the interview worth the wait.

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36 days ago / Comment [4] / Link

Advertising is Dumb

Editor’s Note: It’s Take Your Child to Work Day. We’re letting the little ones learn the ropes around here. Everyone is getting a lot out of it and the kids seem really interested in what mom and dad do for a living. Following is an editorial written by Jeffrey, Age 8.

Advertising is dumb. Jimmy’s dad drives a truck. That would be cool. How come you don’t drive a truck? Everyone here looks sad. There should be more candy. And you should have a big hamster cage. With tubes. I have to go to the bathroom. How come you stay here all the time? That guy is fat. Is he your boss? I could draw that. My trees are better. Do you want to watch me do a push up? Do you have any gum? That lady is pretty. I bet Mommy would like her. How come you don’t wear a tie? Cindy’s dad wears a tie. I don’t like it here. You drink a lot of medicine. Does Mommy know you are sick? Do you have a lunch room? Are we having meatballs? I still have to go to the bathroom. When do we take a nap? I want to go home. Advertising is stupid.

19 days ago / / Link