Okay, so I got a late start on my weekly homage to all things bacon today, because I was putting the finishing touches on my presentation tonight for the students attending the WSPR panel discussion. Of course, I must serve them up some bacon in the form of career insight. For tonight’s event I will give an obligatory introduction, including past work, awards, etc. etc. But if you’ve hung around me enough, you know the thing I value the most in my career is the incredible people I’ve been fortunate to work with. The relationships, the friendships, the bonds. That’s bacon. My closing slide is meant to impress on them that getting your work in an annual is great, but the people you work alongside will become your lifetime achievement award.

The closing slide. Always start and finish with your best bacon.

Oh, and @adny, you didn’t make the slide because you are not on Facebook. #baconfail

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PUMA Fuseproject

Nothing screams bacon more than a suede pair of PUMAs. Now, check out their innovative Fuseproject packaging, thanks to @tsevis and @Nixondesign who obviously are always sniffing the air for the merest whiff of frying bacon.

RT @tsevis: The New PUMA Fuseproject–Packaging as Branding. +reduces material costs/shipping http://bit.ly/93w3gB! (via @Nixondesign)

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Two Person Creative Teams

If you’ve ever fried bacon (and if you haven’t, stop reading this blog immediately) you know there is inherent danger in preparing something so delicious. It is a forgone conclusion that at some point, grease will splatter and you will be burned. With that, I direct you to this searing post brought to my attention through the magic of RT by creativebeast.com’s Trish Hundhausen.

Good stuff. RT @T_Haus: Advertising Agencies: Kiss Your Creative Teams Goodbye | TalentZoo.com: http://bit.ly/cMxSxH via @addthis

Read the post. But don’t miss out on the splattering bacon grease in the comments section. Yum. It will be the subject of an entire blog post here on Just Sayin’ next week.

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The Brief in the Post Digital Age

Bacon never has to change. It is infinitely perfect. Creative briefs, on the other hand, need to work a little harder in this day and age as Goodby’s Gareth Kay astutely explains in this deck posted to Slideshare.

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An Intellectual Take on Farmville

Go ahead, rub your eyes. It’s smokey in here from the bacon we’ve been frying. But no, you did not read that wrong. Hunt Adkin’s Josh Smerick shared this cerebral piece on the importance of games and play, and why Farmville #FAILS at all criteria.

What is—and what isn’t—a game. Some scholarly thinking in this post from media commons on Farmville: http://bit.ly/bnXMOT

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A Decade of Digital

Your t-shirt sir, is pure bacon.

Somewhere, there must be a bacon hall of fame. If there isn’t we’re getting on it, pronto. And when it’s completed, the first inductee will be Faris Yakob, Chief Innovation Officer at MDC Partners. Bacon is pure genius. So is @faris. Read this. Save it. Read it again.

Great thinking on why digital demands a different approach RT @TheMarketingSoc A decade of digital: 10 things for 2010 http://bit.ly/c0VgJ5

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A Last Minute Entry

Bacon, good. Democracy, Bad.

My good friend Rob Franks (@R_Franks formerly known as @blogfoot) tweeted this huge slab o’ bacon my way while I was in the middle of writing this post. Apparently, long before there was Fathead there was Soviethead. As the body copy clearly states “Stalin and Lenin—as awful and sinister as any wild dream.” That, I must say, is hickory-smoked. It’ll take two pieces of paper toweling to soak up the grease dripping from it. Did I say I love this? I love this.

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As always, if there’s something we missed (we probably did, we were busy this week) please share it with us below. Bon Appétit.