Un-Gatekeeping a Creative Industry Secret.

Using Handles to Create Better Ideas

Josh Rose
6 min readAug 13, 2023

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“Ready to Sail,” Image by Josh S. Rose, MidJourney, 2023.

Handles are the undiscussed, maybe even gate-kept, tool that creative teams use at bigger ad agencies. It was a specialty of mine for over twenty years and I wrote them for some of the biggest campaign concepts in the country: Volkswagen, Dr Pepper, Playstation, Coors, Fisher-Price and many others.

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Josh Rose

Filmmaker, photographer, artist and writer. Writing about creator life and observations on culture. Tips very very much appreciated: https://ko-fi.com/joshsrose