Article: Private view.(analysis of simplicity, Versanail etc )

Ahh, simplicity: The Holy Grail. What every great creative team fights for. So many ads start towards simplicity, only to get lost. The ads here clearly had potential. Sure, it's easier to critique the final product than make it yourself. But hey, that's what I've been asked to do.

* Versanail

A tough message with a lot of objectives. The photography did a good job of keeping a classic, artistic studio feel. But I hate that such careful photography and retouching is interrupted by typography. By putting all those color boxes in the ad, there was no place left to put the headline. This is just doing too much on one page; simply move the headline and ...

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