Farewell to Dave
Yesterday, Caperton Gillett Creative had to say goodbye to our chief morale officer, Dave. Dave, Lord Puppypants von Buttstripe, Brave Dave, was my baby. He was mine from the moment …
5 Rules I Live By as a Creative
My guy and I have a fun exchange from time to time. He says I’m a professional liar, and I tell him no! How dare he! There’s a law against …
Work I Loved: A video for a children’s home
A couple of months ago, I shared an article I’d written that I’d enjoyed working on so much I felt compelled to talk about it. And lucky for me, that’s …
Why to hire autistic creatives. (The answer may surprise you.)
It’s World Autism Month, also called Autism Acceptance Month, which is great. I think knowing more about autism, and being more accepting of autistic people, is great. Let’s do that. …
Ads I Wish I’d Made: No Decision Without Us
CoorDown has released their annual video in honor of World Down Syndrome Day 2025, which is tomorrow, March 21. And I Wish I’d Made it because I would have loved …
My brain isn’t great, so here’s what I use instead.
Or, If You Can’t Make Executive Function in Your Own Brain, Store-Bought Is Fine. I’ve made no secret about some of the ways my brain isn’t always a team player …
Unrelated to Advertising: On humans and dehumanization
This isn’t related to advertising at all — I’m not even going to try to rationalize any kind of connection like I sometimes do. It’s just important. It’s also a …
Work I Loved: This one article about a passionate HIV researcher
So, yeah, I ran across an article I wrote a while ago, and re-reading it over (like you do) I found myself thinking about how much I enjoyed writing it …
Bonus Unrelated to Advertising Snow Day Content
We’re having a rare snow day here in balmy Birmingham, where the nationwide winter storm has dropped multiple inches of snow on north Alabama. We at Caperton Gillett Creative had …
Happy Holidays from Caperton Gillett Creative
I couldn’t do this job I so greatly love without the colleagues who support me, the friends who drink with me, and the clients who give me a reason to …