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July 29, 2009

I made Obama say cupcakes are good for your health!

Posted by : Bjorn Borstelmann

So… President Obama had a town hall meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina today. He was welcomed by a local cupcake bakery owner, and he bemoaned the fact that she hadn’t brought him cupcakes… then he recited the logline from a fake news video I made last February at Miami Ad School Minneapolis and sent to [...]


July 20, 2009

Ramenomics

Posted by : Bjorn Borstelmann
Filed under : Food, Miami Ad School

I just got this print campaign off to the The Show, an advertising award show in Minneapolis: Carving up hundreds of Ramen noodle bricks for these letters was the most frustrating typographical experience of my life, with dry noodle bits flying all over the place like shrapnel, and if you put the knife in at [...]


March 18, 2009

Minneapolis’ mashed potato pizza outdoes Idaho

Posted by : Bjorn Borstelmann
Filed under : Food

Hot potato, this is one heck of a pizza: Nestled near Miami Ad School in downtown Minneapolis is a pizza place of perfection, for there you will find what my great second-state of Idaho should have done long ago – mashed potato pizza. Pizza Lucé’s website says their Baked Potato pizza is: “Pizza crust smothered [...]


August 4, 2008

Blue Sky Bakery, Brooklyn NY

Posted by : Bjorn Borstelmann
Filed under : Food, Travel

While we were in NYC, we ventured forth to an old family friend’s bakery on 5th Ave and Bergen St., near Atlantic Station in Brooklyn… Blue Sky Bakery – Google Maps Holy North Dakotan cow, do they make incredible muffins! We had a chocolate banana muffin, a blackberry nectarine muffin, and a whopping glass of [...]


The Boooooooring Print Portfolio

Some results of the fun I had while confined in Miami Ad School Europe is available for your perusal in this PDF. Obviously, this is a compilation that will merrit a lukewarm reaction at most, and this student work is not germane to my current adventures – but these projects represented huge learning experiences for me and, I believe, merit noteworthiness. In other words, if you're a hypercritical creative executive, go outside and breathe or something.

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