Videos and Multimedia

Videos

How Much The Bill Blass Fashion Show Costs

Testing Wii Fit in the Office

Inescapable, Ever-Evolving Outdoor Advertising

Talking Brands with Head of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

DKNY’s Orange Bikes in New York City

Interview with Live Earth founder Kevin Wall

I interviewed Wall, a keynote speaker, at the American Association of Advertising Agencies Account Planning Conference held in August 2007 in San Diego.

 

Slide Shows and Interactive Features

The Hard Sell

When Hummer decided to release it’s longest ever vehicle this fall, I realized this would be one of the hardest sells ever. How would an advertising or communications agency successfully sell the new version of this icon of excess? So I asked four agencies to give it a whirl for the December issue. Here’s a slideshow of their results.

Digital Checklist

Even if you lounge in front of a 42-inch, plasma HDTV, you’re not immune from the effects of the digital transition. I explored the broader impact of the move away from analog television signals.

 

No Accounting for Talent

How do MacArthur geniuses spend their $500,000 prize? For the October 2007 issue, I revealed what a few winners from the class of 2002 did with their winnings. This is companion slideshow.

 

The Midas Tchotchke

For the December 2007 issue, I helped compile a list of the kitschy foreign-made tie-ins that New Line Cinema would be pushing for its holiday film, The Golden Compass. This is the interactive version of the feature.

 

The Felon Factor

 

That big donor’s white-collar conviction just turned Tycoon Hall into Felon Auditorium. What’s a nonprofit to do? It’s an interactive version of the piece originally published in the November 2008 issue of Condé Nast Portfolio.

 

The Ethanol Industrial Complex

Interactive version of the story from the November 2007 issue of Condé Nast Portfolio, where I took a bird’s eye view of the ethanol industry just in time for a record corn harvest.

 

You’ve Got Fatalgrams

This slide show of actual fatalgrams, announcements of coalminer deaths each with an illustration of the event, accompanied my story about coalmining safety in the debut issue Condé Nast Portfolio.

 

Cannes Do

Cannes

An interactive map of the must-attend parties and events at the 2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival for Portfolio.com.

 

 

The Goldenest Parachutes

Interactive version of the piece in the debut issue of Condé Nast Portfolio that highlighted some of the largest golden parachutes.