Wednesday, May 1, 2013

To my long-suffering ADs, I can hear (and see) your pain

Stock photography.  The bane of an art director's life.  Cheap, cheezy, OTT stock photography is the ass-saving refuge of clients with no idea what to do ("just slap in a picture of someone looking happy... who's ethnic... and tech savvy... lying on a dock... ") and who needs something, anything as long as it's not risky.  Or original.  Or interesting.  Or expensive.  To ease the frustration of those art directors who struggle with having to use this loathsome library of lameness, there's this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/cliched-stock-photography-is-the-funniest-music-video-ever-m

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