Overview
This page is curated tour through some of the most compelling manifestos on the site. Whether you’re working on something specific or just broadening your mental library, you’ll find over a dozen lists below to help guide you on your journey. Do you have a favorite category that’s not mentioned? Send me an email.
Caveat
These lists are highly subjective based on my personal opinions. I’m also limited to only the scripts I’ve come across. There are hundreds of incredible scripts that aren’t on this list yet, especially ones in languages other than English. To those manifestos and their creators, no disrespect intended.
Top 10 Lists
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Top 10 Instructive Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 Epic Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Conservation International "Humanifesto”
CoorDown “Assume That I Can”
DDB "Let’s Tell the Truth”
Diesel "Be Stupid”
Miller "This is the High Life”
Rain Forest Alliance “Follow the Frog"
RED “The (RED) Manifesto”
The Big Issue “Cold”
The City of Perth “Thursday Manifesto”
Walter Gropius “Manifesto of the Staatliches Bauhaus”
Top 10 Negative Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 Funny Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Aviation Gin “The Process”
Dollar Shave Club "Our Blades are F***ing Great”
Dove “Twenty Fascinating Facts”
Metro “Dumb Ways to Die”
Newcastle Brown Ale ”If We Made it”
NFL Playoffs “Joe”
Old Spice "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like”
Ragu “Long Day of Childhood”
Rain Forest Alliance “Follow the Frog"
The City of Perth “Thursday Manifesto”
Top 10 Unique Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 Parallel Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 Portrait Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 Unknown Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 TBWA Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 Wieden+Kennedy Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 Nike Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 Long Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
BBH “The Power of Difference”
Cadillac "The Penalty of Leadership”
DDB "Let’s Tell the Truth”
Johnnie Walker "The Man Who Walked Around the World”
Miller "This is the High Life”
Nike “A Message from Nike Running”
Nike “Dennis Rodman, American Hero.”
Papercut “This is Not Your Life”
Rain Forest Alliance “Follow the Frog"
Ram “So God Made a Farmer”
Top 10 Short Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Top 10 New Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Antarctic Science Foundation "This Isn't Us Saving the Planet”
Athleta “Your world. Your rules.”
Claude “There’s Hope in Hard Questions”
CoorDown “Assume That I Can”
Girl Scouts of the USA “Manifesto”
Lilly “Shame”
Microsoft “Our Mission”
Nike “So Win”
Pinterest “How Did They Do It?”
Visit Oslo “Is It Even a City?”
Top 10 Old Manifestos
How do you define a “great” manifesto? The best writing? The most impact? The best use of language? All of those are definitely part of it. However, my main criteria was to find the ten manifestos that I simply couldn’t unread.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
The key to every manifesto is transformation, whether they leave you altered in some significant, permanent way. More than any other scripts on this site, these have stayed with me the most.
Avis “We Try Harder”
Cadillac "The Penalty of Leadership”
Cadillac “The Tribute to Initiative”
DDB “Do This or Die”
NASA “Foundations of Flight Operations”
Schlitz “The Owners Protect It”
Volkswagen “Lemon”
Volkswagen “Think Small”
Volkswagen “Ugly is only skin deep”
Walter Gropius “Manifesto of the Staatliches Bauhaus”