You may have heard about the D&G advertising faux-pas last week. If you haven’t you may still be able to google the news reports. Here’s the high-level summary: China was offended and D&G may well have lost a big market. For something that could have been avoided. A simple truth... There …
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Oh H&M…
2018 has just started and we have our first public misstep in advertising: H&M had a black boy modelling a hoodie that brands him as the “coolest monkey in the jungle”. Are you kidding me?! The white kid next to him is the “survival expert”. Ah… if only someone had caught this during the …
Oh Dove…
Last weekend we saw another mis-step in the advertising world. If you didn't see Dove’s Facebook ad, you can see it here. Dove pulled it down, and apologized for the “racial insensitivity”. Well. The ad is not just racially insensitive, it perpetuates (and is perpetuated by), systemic …
What Images Tell us About Bias and Inclusion
Last week I visited a Health Care Practitioner. As I sat in the in the waiting room I watched the TV screen display with a slide rotation of all of the practitioners who work in the office and offer complimentary care. While there is a range of offerings and small bios underneath so one can …
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