Education Strategy

It was only a year-or-so ago that Miami Ad School alum Ali Ali founded his creative boutique Elephant Cairo. In that short time, he and his shop have attracted clients the likes of Google and Coca-Cola, gained international recognition at the Cannes Advertising Festival, and just plain-old did a whole lot of ass-kicking. But now Ali’s targeted another posterior. He’s brainstorming guerilla-marketing tactics aimed at toppling the Mubarak regime.

Ali Ali’s efforts have attracted the attention of AdAge, and they ran a an online feature on his current campaign in yesterday’s edition.

“Last week, he took a decades-old photograph of President Hosni Mubarak, added a Hitler-esque toothbrush moustache and floppy hair, and found an opposition-friendly printer willing to open his shop late at night and run off 100 copies of the silk-screened poster.

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For more than a decade, the Miami Ad School has been one of the most influential institutions for the ad industry. No other portfolio school has brought forth more award winners.

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Visiting Miami Ad School is a unique experience. Its hallways and classrooms have the look and feel that those of any institution endeavoring to teach advertising–as well as any other creative field– should have. As creativity is the heart and soul of this profession, it’s a wonder that many of the advertising schools that I’ve been able to visit, both here in Chile and abroad, offer no distinctiveness, no whimsy. They might as well have been teaching accounting or law within those walls. Our business is indeed different than most others. The schools that educate the advertising professionals of tomorrow should themselves inspire the people within.First, the classrooms of Miami Ad School are all unique; there is not one like the other. Eac

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From AgencySpy:  Aspiring and mid-level copywriters and designers, take notice. AgencySpy’s parent Mediabistro and the Miami Ad School are teaming up to launch an online advertising education initiative this fall. We here at AgencySpy are doing our part to bring in senior creatives from various shops to school up-and-comers as well as those looking to elevate their status in the agency world via this education effort (give us a shout if interested).

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