From a fabric standpoint,our needs should be limited, but advertisers take advantage of our unlimited emotional needs to keep us shopping, or says a former ad writer. The first step to a solution,he believes, is seeing the problemTo hell with Don Draper: Greg Foyster is a genuine-life ad man gone rogue. After five of years writing ad copy to sell everything from toasters to condiments, and he just couldn’t take it anymore. So he started writing a magazine column approximately environmental issues,one of his passions, as a side gig. He spent his 9-to-5s coming up with pitch-perfect tag lines for big brand products, and his weekends writing approximately the devastating toll overconsumption was taking on our world.
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Source: theguardian.com