 | Ad Nauseam: Commercials I Love and Hate
by Pete D., copywriter · MadisonAvenue/Agency
A junior copywriter's takes on the TV commercials of 1999, and what makes an ad work. |
 | Clip Art Corner: Free Graphics for Your Page
by Wendy S., graphic artist · MadisonAvenue/Studio
Tips for using clip art, backgrounds and buttons on a home page without making a mess. |
 | Jingles I Can't Get Out of My Head
by Ted Morrissey · MadisonAvenue/Billboard
A radio producer's affectionate history of the advertising jingle, and why it works. |
| The Junior Account Executive Survival Guide
by Priyanka Desai, 25 · MadisonAvenue/Account
First year at an ad agency: status reports, the client lunch and learning what a CPM is. |
| Zine Scene: How to Make a Zine
by Kelly Tran, zinester · MadisonAvenue/Press
Making a photocopied zine in 1999: layout with scissors and glue, the copy shop, and trading by mail. |
| Signature Promotions BUSINESS
MadisonAvenue/Agency
Imprinted pens, mugs, calendars and shirts for businesses, teams and reunions, with 1999 pricing. |
| Copy JOURNAL
by Rebecca Hirsch · MadisonAvenue/Layout
An advertising copywriter writes about her third round of IVF, the office baby showers and the two-week wait. |
 | Ex-Mad Man JOURNAL
by Chip Harrington · MadisonAvenue/Billboard
A fifty-seven-year-old ad man pushed out after a merger writes about freelancing, pride and fixing up an old sailboat. |
| nice to meet you
by Lena Seo · MadisonAvenue/Studio
A shy graphic designer who is better at fonts than at introductions. |
 | The Unremarkable Life of Me
by Philip Crane · MadisonAvenue/Press
A thirty-six-year-old copy editor writes a very well-edited essay about how nothing has happened to him. |
 | Getting Found: My Search Engine Diary
by Marsha Salter · MadisonAvenue/Billboard
Seven months, nine search engines and three tries at Yahoo!: my diary of getting a covered-bridge page found, and the ten rules I learned. |
| Exactly 55: Very Short Stories
by Clifton Fiore · MadisonAvenue/Press
Every story here is exactly 55 words, not counting the title. I write headlines all day; at night I write these. Count them yourself. |
| Hand Lettered by C. Iversen
by James Iversen · MadisonAvenue/Layout
Dad painted signs in northeast Iowa for forty-four years. Where his work still shows, how he did it, and why nobody does it now. |
 | Why I Took the Banners Off My Bass Page
by Preston Cadwell · MadisonAvenue/Account
I ran banners on my bass page for eight months. Here are the numbers, and why I took every one of them down. |
 | ~*Audrey's Free Page Designs*~
by Audrey, 14 · MadisonAvenue/Layout
Free page designs made from the backgrounds already on GeoCities.us! Copy the code, change the words, keep my little credit link. ~*~ |
| FW: FW: FW: The Forward to End All Forwards
by Adam Ratcliff · MadisonAvenue/Press
This page has been around the world nine times. A man in Duluth ignored it and his toaster unionized. Read it, then forward it to nobody. |
 | UNDER CONSTRUCTION - The Comic
by Robin Lowery · MadisonAvenue/Layout
Dig has been working on your home page since 1996. He is not almost done. A weekly comic made entirely of free clip art, new every Monday, by a web designer who has used all of it. |
| Inside Verse JOURNAL
by Yvette Dennett · MadisonAvenue/Studio
All day I write birthday wishes and sympathy for people I'll never meet. This is where I write my own. Three years in the card business, one broken engagement, and a sister's baby. |
| The Chalk Creek Ledger - Your Weekly Since 1887 BUSINESS
MadisonAvenue/Press
The Chalk Creek Ledger comes out every Thursday. Subscribe, advertise, send us your news, and read this week's front page here. The rest you'll have to buy at the counter. |
 | Signs Along the Road: Remembering the Shaving Cream Signs
by Edwin Irish · MadisonAvenue/Billboard
Six little red signs in a row along the highway, and the last one told you who'd paid for them. What it was like to read them from the back seat, how they worked, and forty sets of my own. |
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