Creative Director Gifts

"Sometimes I think the collaborative process would work better without you."

Innovation department.

'Quick, Ted, get that one down on paper before you forget it.'

Good start. Needs more gibberish.

'Smith, we need more creativity. You have to learn to think outside the box.'

Advertising Agency - "...Fooling some of the people all of the time is damn hard work."

'And now, Gentlemen, that we have our thinking caps on, let us continue.'

Brainstorm in progress.

'I like to think our false and deceptive advertising is falser and more deceptive than anyone else's false and deceptive advertising.'

'This is where we merged our 'creative' and 'accounting' departments.'

'we need to do some out of the box thinking.'

'It's creative as hell! Now that you've got that out of your system, give me a campaign that will sell.'

'Step in here, Henderson - we want to pick your brain.'

"He spends hours waiting for his muse to strike..."

Animal office workers at a meeting. Lion says to giraffe: 'Gerry, I think you're best placed to do a spot of blue-sky thinking on this.'

The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

'Think tank' and 'Rethink tank'.

'It's weird, I know, but he does come up with some of our best ideas that way.'

The first week of the brainstorming session went slowly.

'I want a campaign that will fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people all the time.'

"Until we get reaction to the campaign, I want you to pretend it's your idea."

'Actually, this is when I'm at my most creative, when I don't seem to be doing anything.'

TV - Please stand buy. We've run out of ideas.

Creative department

A man having a light bulb screwed into his head.

'He's written some great slogans and some great labels, but he's never written a great coupon.'

"Okay! That's enough thinking outside the box."

"I see we've hired an ideas man."

'Advertising Agency' 'Out of focus group'

'Let me see your portfolio of stolen ideas.'

Toe Advertising.

"You're writing in the masculine again."

"The leadership team wants a catchy acronym for a new social media app they're calling Functional Applied Relationship Tracker. Any suggestions?"

"You want the bookkeeper? Let me put you through to our creative department."