ACD from AKQA gives creative advice

I received a message today via facebook from Steve Tornello, Creative Circus alumnus and ACD at AKQA in San Francisco. It's advice to young creatives well worth sharing, and the posting he shared is fun too.

Steven Tornello April 7 at 1:02pm

This is something i harp on with my teams. I think it's essential to have artistic interests outside of advertising, mainly because advertising is really moving away from traditional forms and into many other different expressions. Which means that someone who purely loves advertising and only advertising might not have the best skillset moving forward.

So I always encourage students and creatives to find different outlets to express yourself, whether it be what you do best or what you don't do well at all.

And if I didn't do some of that myself, I would be a hypocrite.

That being said, here's some horoscopes I wrote that just got published by divinecaroline.com. That's a website for women. I am a man. So it's a challenge. Whether or not I succeeded is somewhat irrelevant. But I'm a better writer for going through the process.

http://www.divinecaroline.com/32649/96015-roll-dice--april--visiting-visionary

hope all is well.

steve.
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