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What: Copy assistance, design,
production art.
For: “A Midi Production Studio in a Box” full page color magazine ad
Client: Akai Professional
When: 1987
After the closing of Linn Electronics,
Roger Linn developed this highly-regarded drum machine/sequencer for
Akai. I was greatly pleased when Roger requested of the
Akai people that I be brought in to prepare the product’s first ad,
especially after the strain of our last meeting, the day I resigned the
Linn Electronics account. The ad features my typical big big product
shot. The vertical stripe layout worked alright, but it would have
worked much better had a second product not been added to the ad at the
behest of the Akai Professional people in Texas. But that is nothing, nothing compared to what happened
subsequently, as you will see below. Having “bought” a
professional graphic design from
a “big shot LA designer” (who, me?), the Texas people proceeded to milk
the layout for subsequent products– hacking, hammering, bending, and
beating it into submission every which way. The result was a weird and
exceedingly ugly group of ads that I collected for my own amusement. I
include two of them here for yours. Please
remember that, beyond having my original layout “borrowed,” I had
nothing to do with the two ads you see below:
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