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Happy hour conversation series launches
Former Wieden+Kennedy creative director Jelly Helm kicks off new discussion program on consumer culture by Oregon Council for the Humanities.
17 November 2008
How does advertising create desire and shape identity? Is shopping a patriotic act? Is it better to buy local or buy nothing at all? These are a few of the provocative questions about consumer culture that participants in a new happy hour conversation series, Think & Drink, will tackle.
The series kicks off on Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at 6:30 at rontoms, 600 E. Burnside, Portland, with Jelly Helm, former executive creative director of Wieden+Kennedy’s Portland headquarters and founder of 12, Wieden+Kennedy’s experimental in-house advertising school. Helm will discuss advertising’s role in creating desire and shaping identity.
Think & Drink, which invites the public to think and talk together, is sponsored by the Oregon... More
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