With all the internet reading everyone does, sometimes it’s even better to read a book. For advertising, the ultimate one-volume course is the award books.
I say books because I can’t decide whether The Art Director’s Annual or The One Show is the better volume. Joining The One Club offers a range of addditional benefits including their quarterly One as well as various meetings and get-togethers and portfolio reviews sessions.
Both are excellent and will give you the best in advertising the way nothing else can. They include work in every medium, so TV isn’t slighted in these print formats.
Then too, The One Club, at least, offers Annual best commercial reels as well.
It’s fun to browse online commercials for weirdness or occasionally quality, but for plunging into the best advertising work each year, nothing beats these heavy tomes. The Art Director’s Annual current edition weighs five pounds.
If you can read tiny type, you can study more than art direction and concept, you can learn long copy too. These books come out every January.