GRADMEN: Creative Circus Enlists Creative Directors To Woo MADMEN's Jon Hamm.

As the Atlanta-based Advertising school students tell the story it all happened one Sunday night. Inspiration struck a few booze-laden advertising students while watching the ad industry's favorite tv drama, Mad Men on AMC. They decided to start a side project to bring actor Jon Hamm to speak in character at their graduation as Don Draper.



The Challenge:
To get get actor Jon Hamm to speak in character as Don Draper at The Creative Circus graduation.


above: Creative Circus students Deanna Director, David Ma & Mike Quattrocchi lead the charge

The Pitch:
The students rallied various ad agency Creative Directors to speak, CD to CD, on their behalf.

The Video Plea:



The President of the One Club, Kevin Swanepoel, even sweetened the deal with the offer of a Gold Pencil for Best Fictional Creative Director Ever:


I hope it works (although they may need to woo the writers, too). Best of luck to them!

You can see stills of the Creative Directors who joined the movement on the GRADMEN Flickr page here.

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Steampunk Gas Masks & Helmets So Exquisite, They'll Leave You Breathless.

It's hard to believe that Tom Banwell has no formal art training and is largely self taught when you look at his expertly crafted collection of leather and metal Steampunk Gas Masks & Helmets. The masks and helmets are an impressive display of workmanship, complete with mechanical parts, fully wearable and entirely original.

A Temporary Tattoo Inspired by Pantone Chips!

In contrast to my earlier post today about permanent inking here's a much more light-hearted temporary option. As part of the Designy Temporary Tattoos from Tattly, graphic designer Josh Smith created an ode to Pantone color chips by creating a temp tatt inspired by their color chips.



The transparent rubdown is named TATTONE and uses the numbers and letters "5k1n" spell out skin:





Each sheet comes with 2 chip-sized Tattones and a deluxe-sized Tattone for when you need to send a stronger message. $5
Buy it here

To see the full collection of Designy Temporary tattoos, visit Tattly here.