Creative Skirts

‘Creative Skirts’ vs. ‘Morrisey, Totten & Peters’

Here's a good post questioning why men tend to name their agencies after themselves, and women don’t:

A rose by any other name ain’t as sweet.

My guess is most women shy away from putting their name on the door because it's a tad egotistical, and it pretty immediately breaks down the idea that "we're all responsible for the work that is made here".

But hey, maybe we should have started this blog as Morrisey, Totten & Peters. (Although that would now have to be Whigham, Aspinwall & Peters - which might be another reason women aren't as apt to tie everything to a name.)

Cheryl Berman. Article from AdWeek

One Year Strong

Barnes and Noble is proudly displaying a new (although not that new) magazine on their "high-traffic" racks this month. It's called Pink - and describes itself as representing "more than a color. It's a badge of honor celebrating a global mission of equity and opportunity - a movement acknowledging all that women are today and will be tomorrow."

This month's 1st Anniversary Issue features Lynne Seid, who recently resigned as President of Foote Cone & Belding New York (leaving behind a six-figure salary). The article discusses Seid's need to be "authentic at work" and what Pink deems the next big hurdle for women: being unapologetically female in the workplace.

In the article Seid reveals that one of her reasons for leaving FCB was she was "tired of having to act like a man." (Apparently the inspiration for the photo.)