Here at Marshall Creative, we go searching through iStock to find the supposedly innocuous photos that we use to craft our beloved stock bits. There are literally thousands of photos uploaded to the iStock archive, and every so often your search terms will find you some deeply weird images that … CONTINUE READING /
Awhile back it occurred to us that one of the quirks of the iStock archive is that all photos are numerically coded, and that many of these numbers are seven characters long. In other words, you can see if your phone number, or the phone number of a local business, or … CONTINUE READING /
Jon Schickedanz took our simple little stock photo contest and made a tiny Ingmar Bergman film out of it. For his funny-yet-sobering look at the world of the Marketing Department, Jon wins a shiny iTunes gift card!
Thanks, Jon! Thanks also to everybody else who submitted. The October caption contest will … CONTINUE READING /
After awhile, it just happens without our even trying. For example, last night our friends from Schadenfreude stopped by the office to do a little brainstorming, and without even meaning to they found themselves involuntarily posing for stock photos.
This is what business magazines would call a “company culture.”… CONTINUE READING /
When we unveiled the new Marshall Creative website last month, we also re-started our monthly Stock Photo Caption Contest.
(Rules are pretty simple: We show you a Stock Photo. You email a caption to hello@marshall-creative.com. Best entry wins an iTunes gift card. No big deal.)
Last month’s contest winner was Homer … CONTINUE READING /
Here’s one of our latest. Thank you, Glenn from payroll.… CONTINUE READING /
When you adopt a series of stock photos as your tongue-in-cheek stock-in-trade, you have to get used to other people using them for their intended, yet boring, purpose.
So while we were surprised to see our very own ad shipped to us on the label of this “premium compatible toner” box, … CONTINUE READING /
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