Creative Director Mugs

"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.'

'Apparently, wild hopes and dreams, re-enacted by Barbie and Ken, are no substitute for a solid business plan.'

Good start. Needs more gibberish.

'As our new company logo, I'm not quite sure it's sending out the right message.'

'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.'

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

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

Brainstorm in progress.

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

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

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.'

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

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

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'.

The first week of the brainstorming session went slowly.

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

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

'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."

Deep in the heart of the RAND think tank, the world's greatest scientists would gather to brainstorm Batman's fight sounds.

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

Creative department

"I'm still not sure if we've hired a creative genius or a complete cretin."

A man having a light bulb screwed into his head.

'I need you to start thinking outside the imaginary box.'

Toe Advertising.

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

'Sorry, Gowp, but I'm rteplacing you as Head of Advertising.'

Think Tank.