This art installation by the French designer Pierre David, takes a leaf out of Pantone books of yore. Now this is multiculturalism in full flow, in your face, and over the rest of your body too. It reminds me of

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You've got to love Google because they've got the guts, the balls and the brand to do this sort of thing. When a brand is big, it's big-hearted and big-thinking. The occasion here is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

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A soupçon of visual punning. A dash of good timing. A gentle invitation to break your fast at Amer.A cracker of an ad for the Ramadan season from DDB Egypt via Ads of the World. Advertising Agency: DDB, EgyptCreative Director

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Smart, hip and desi, Masala Chai is a steaming cup filled with desi design wit. Check it out. Posts range from an intro to the stellar fold-your-own paper dolls of Mira Malhotra (shown here) to the Madhubani-folk-art-inspired paintings of Arti

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A common sobriquet that describes Chinese Canadians with a job in Hong Kong and a home and family in Canada. The term finds its provenance in the post-1997 phenomenon that saw many Chinese Canadian families set up homes in Canada

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Indian English is being a bhelpuri language. It is being sweet and hot and tangy. In a most excellent piece first published in 1987 in the New York Times, Steven Weisman (who was being the Times' New Delhi bureau chief),

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This brilliantly wacky spot for Coke benefits from the fizzy mix of a Bollywoody dance sequence and bhangra homeboy Gurdass Mann's kickass delivery. Arre, chak de!

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An outstanding report from the NYTimes.com, this video on a Pakistani business illuminates, surprises and challenges our preconceived notions of what Pakistan is, whether there is any tolerance in an Islamic context, while celebrating plain old chutzpah and entrepreneurship. It's

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The debate on Chinese script carries on in the pages of the NY Times. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, professor of Chinese literary studies, Eugene Wang, professor of Asian art, Hsuan Meng, writer at World Journal Weekly and Norman Matloff, computer scientist

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This bold, humanistic spot from Argentina goes where few North American banks dare to go.Viva tolerance! Article and blog: Creative Commons License 2008 Gavin BarrettThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Canada License.

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As a long-time poet and poetry promoter, I thought I'd use April - being National Poetry Month - to throw the powerful magic of poetry into the rattle-bag that is Bheja Bazaar. Besides, poetry and social commentary have always made

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A tip of the turban (literally) to fellow ad man, occasional employee and international Sikh Dalbir Singh. His Sikh Park cartoon series reminds us why this successful, industrious community is so much fun to hang with. They know how to

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India just celebrated the incredible, colourful, uninhibited festival of Holi. Enjoy the The Boston Globe's photo essay on the festivities from its spectacular Big Picture website. And in the words of one billion revelers, "Holi Hai!" Let go and let

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A beautifully executed series of peace posters featuring all 12 animals from the Japanese/Chinese zodiac. Shown here, the Ox -it is the Year of the Ox after all. Enjoy. You can find the entire series here.Image by Graflex Directions, via

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Lord Leverhulme rather famously said "Half of my advertising budget is wasted. I just don't know which half."And with that somewhat tautological statement, he set off a craze for measurement and ROI that has, to this day, not found a

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Strategy = I think. Tactics = I do. Strategy = Analysis, planning, ideation. Tactics = Mechanisms, activities, deployment. Strategy - tactics = Einstein's brain in a jar. Tactics - strategy = Einstein without a brain at all. Strategy + tactics

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Over on LinkedIn, a fellow member posted this question, and the answer I sent in might be pertinent to followers of this blog.His question on Multicultural Agencies:Does anyone have any experience working with (as a client) full service multicultural advertising

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If you are celebrating the Lunar New Year, here's a simple wish from all of us at Barrett and Welsh: may the the Year of the Ox reward all your hard work with abundance and prosperity. Article: Creative Commons License

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A common sobriquet that describes Chinese Canadians with a job in Hong Kong and a home and family in Canada. The term finds its provenance in the post-1997 phenomenon that saw many Chinese Canadian families set up homes in Canada

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Asian American is a catch-all phrase that covers Americans whose origins are East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), South Asian (mostly Indian, and to a lesser extent Pakistani and Bangladeshi), South-East Asian (Vietnamese and Philipino, and to a lesser extent Thai,

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After writing some 10,000 words in this blog, I thought I'd like to see how one of my favourite web services handles the content. Wordle, as some of you may know generates these elegant dense tag clouds of any content

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