https://www.donovantriplett.com/twitter daily 0.75 2023-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583542008141-RAVCJ7XS66CN7OW7LZY7/IMG_2579.PNG Twitter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583542630746-T5QKLFVUBHPZMOZXX79B/image-asset.png Twitter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583541927572-JYTK4CFOLSTABCFHQBY3/IMG_2626.PNG Twitter https://www.donovantriplett.com/home daily 1.0 2025-02-05 https://www.donovantriplett.com/albums daily 0.75 2020-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583450552477-MGEKBAWM8OTDUMB8R273/MBDTF.jpg Albums - “This the real world, homie, school finished. They done stole your dreams, you dunno’ who did it.” - Kanye West, Gorgeous Napkin note: Frustration is cumulative. Sometimes, the most devastating part of feeling beaten down is not being able to ID any one thing that makes your feelings make sense. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583452358497-9IJWSR4TI6FGFK4V1X4W/More+Life+1.jpg Albums - “Winnin' is problematic. People like you more when you’re workin' towards somethin' Not when you have it.” - Drake, Lose You Napkin note: People want their favorites to succeed, but rooting gets less satisfying once there’s nothing for them to overcome. (Game of Thrones isn’t as exciting if the big chair gets secured in Season 2.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583453973728-2MSU4D1BODN32ZY07XEA/DAMN.jpeg Albums - “Seems like I point a finger just to make a point nowadays.” - Kendrick Lamar, PRIDE. Napkin note: Prideful behavior isn’t usually about inflicting damage so much as displacing a sting you think you don’t deserve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583454201594-FSFD4XN9R4H7K65ERAEZ/Blond.jpg Albums - “First time I done saw you… You text nothing like you look.” - Frank Ocean, Good Guy Napkin note: Most people’s writing is doused in the kind of person they are - from word choices to references to emojis used or unused. Maybe the best compliment a copywriter (or a planner) could get is to be able to write nothing like they look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583454571868-PRVKGNVKPSMI5XN1V354/ASeat.jpg Albums - “I tried to run it away. Thought then my head be feeling clearer. I traveled 70 states. Thought moving ‘round make me feel better.” - Solange, Cranes in the Sky Napkin note: Pain travels well. https://www.donovantriplett.com/books daily 0.75 2023-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583510610152-VO3LWT5UV9ZP8G9P29FI/Alice.jpg Books - “She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it.)” - Alice in Wonderland (1865) Napkin note: Sometimes, the pride you can take in “knowing better” slows down the urgency to do better. (See: diversity efforts) A less plannery interpretation a friend/CD pointed out: Tumbling down a rabbit hole can often get us where we need to go quicker than figuring out the perfect route. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583511939982-7B976W1CB8OXLQGDRKOI/Oscar-Wilder.jpg Books - “Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength is wasted in friction...such battles do not always intensify strength, they often exaggerate weakness.” Napkin note: The ad industry has a passionate love of absurdity. (Crazier, weirder, more unexpected.) But what used to be a surprising rebellion against reason has (in many cases) become a fairly routine result of agencies broadcasting their own taste. My point isn't that absurdity is bad; maybe we just need to stop treating it like a rebellion. Or maybe better, find a more modern way to make it rebellious again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583512307305-HHXIASUU46ZEYM4KVAYO/Abdurraqib.jpg Books - “The soundtrack to grief isn’t always as dark as the grief itself. Sometimes what we need is something to make the grief seem small, even when you know it’s a lie.” Napkin note: This is from an essay about Chance The Rapper’s album, Coloring Book. Anything I’d add would be unnecessary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583512551042-8CTOOYAIJ36J1QKZIQA1/WTDWIG_jacket_art.jpg Books - “Keep in mind that life is a loose mix of odd circumstances that together can sometimes yield great results.” Napkin note: We don't say "sometimes" enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1583512785629-4Y1I63CJYE63G2EPOOFU/Hayakawa.jpg Books - “In a competitive society, conversation is often a battleground in disguise on which we are constantly (and unconsciously) trying to win victories.” Napkin note: Is the problem that we have too many meetings or that they last longer than they need to? So much time is spent making points that are smart, true and unnecessary. Aiming toward “necessary” rather than “correct” might get us off the battleground. https://www.donovantriplett.com/work daily 0.75 2023-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/9047e9a5-0ac5-4c95-8520-54445da6ad65/Screen_Shot_2022-06-19_at_10.46.24_AM.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1600896553398-ROISYGIZK2EU6BZH34NH/andre-3000-gq-style-12-extra.jpg Work Photograph by Jason Nocito Article by me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1600896138148-MRBIPN1OE04PY3GBOJD5/BHM-POSTER+Cover.jpg Work A poster takeover I did at McGarrah Jessee for BHM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1600896691874-G4UHDK1094IP80KA84WJ/og-home.jpg Work After winning the Bill Sharp Award in 2018, I was able to share some thoughts on diversity in the ad industry for The Drum. https://www.donovantriplett.com/about daily 0.75 2023-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5dc5ff2cfccf43ea83c82b/1625500525920-E9BEMU5Q5FPXTIZAURT8/DSC_3418.jpg About - Donovan Triplett The homepage is really the heart of what I try to do every day: find the truth and make it compelling. I pull from a lot of places to do that and lean toward things that don’t seem like they belong - with brand work and diversity work. At the moment, I don’t have any children to be proud of, but I do hope they’ll be proud of me one day. 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