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By Staff on May 3, 2013
Two weeks ago Dave Dye set up London’s newest agency Hello People with former Ogilvy UK managers Hugh Baillie and Rachel Hatton. He previously worked at BMP, AMV/BBDO, Leagas Delaney, Campbell Doyle Dye and DHM winning awards for The Economist, Nike, Volkswagen and Google and Adnams. He is the only person to design two D&AD [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged after eight, apple, brutus jeans, Dave Dye, desert island ads, fedex, hello people, Jean-Paul Goude, John Webster, JWT, Muhammad Ali
By Staff on May 1, 2013
Andy Law is chairman of innovation consultancy Fearlessly Frank. Prior to joining FF he helped to found some of London’s better creative agencies including St Luke’s and The Law Firm. Here’s his choice of, mostly, ads. Asked to pick my ten favourite ads and I’m stumped. Where to start? Fortunately the kindly folk at Moreaboutadvertising [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Andy Law, bandcamp, benson & hedges, desert island ads, fearlessly frank, first direct, ikea, Margaret Thatcher, Yoko Ono
By George Parker on April 16, 2013
I was flattered when Stephen asked me to sully the pages of MAA with my choice of “Desert Island Ads.” After all, the previous writers have indeed been the crème of London’s adverati whose opinions are valued in the best West End bars and worst East End boozers. I shall endeavor to live up to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged apple, chiat day, collett dickenson pearce, ddb, desert island ads, George Parker, goodby silverstein, IBM, ogilvy, snow plow
By Staff on April 11, 2013
Neil Christie is managing director of Wieden+Kennedy London, one of the UK’s most awarded agencies and, since winning Tesco and Three among others, one of its biggest. He began his career in 1984 as a ‘lowly dogsbody’ (his words) at Allen Brady & Marsh, moving via Yellowhammer and BBH to become managing director of TBWA [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged apple, burger king, desert island ads, Neil Christie, stella, tango, vw, wieden+kennedy
By Paul Simons on February 25, 2013
The influences that began to shape my thinking started in university days with TV programmes such as Monty Python. New ideas were slowly creeping out and the migration to advertising didn’t take long. It was a period when the creative juices were like the sap rising in spring across various pursuits such as music, photography, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged bbh, bmp, bouncing balls, cadburys, desert island ads, fallon, gorilla, JWT, Paul Simons, simons palmer, smash martians, Sony
By Staff on February 20, 2013
Mark started at the BBC in news and current affairs then moved to the music business at Warner Bros. He joined advertising as a producer at CDP, becoming Head of TV in the late 80s, producing some of the most award-winning work of the time. He launched Propaganda Films (Polygram) in the UK and European [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Alan Parker, audi, bbh, bmp, CDP, desert island ads, federal express, hugh hudson, John Salmon, John Webster, Mark Andrews, Paul Wieland, rawlings, volkswagen
By Staff on November 22, 2012
Simon Gill joined digital agency LBi in 2006 as head of design for the web development team with responsibility for interaction and user experience design. He was rapidly promoted to creative director and is now executive creative director. He has helped to judge the D&AD Awards, Guardian Megas, Cresta, Creative Showcase, BIMA and New York [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative | Tagged desert island ads, digital, lbi, lynx, Mercedes, orange, Simon Gill
By Staff on November 13, 2012
John Townshend is one of the founders and the creative director of new UK agency Now. He started his career at Ogilvy and then co-founded Rapier which began as a direct marketing agency and became one of the biggest integrated agencies in the UK. He has won many awards for both above-the-line work and direct [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative | Tagged desert island ads, hamlet photo booth, John Townshend, linguaphone, now, ogilvy, rapier, Tim Delaney
By Staff on October 15, 2012
Giles Keeble started as a rep (account man) at JWT before moving to BMP. There Stanley Pollitt told him that JWT’s Stephen King (the co-founder of account planning with Pollitt) had wanted him to become a planner. John Webster encouraged him to become a writer but after a number of years Giles moved to French [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative | Tagged amv, bmp, cadbury's gorilla, David Abbott, desert island ads, Giles Keeble, honda, leo burnett, Sony, union carbide
By Staff on February 15, 2012
Jerry Judge is a co-founder of self-styled ‘capitalist collective’ The Fearless Group. Based in New York. Fearless is a new-style agency bringing together senior people from a number of marketing disciplines. Born in London, he has worked in senior management roles in a number of top creative agencies including TBWA, BBH and Lowe in London [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged bbh, Charles Inge, desert island ads, fearless group, guardian, heineken, Jerry Judge, John Bartle, John Hegarty, John Webster, lego, leo burnett, Lowe, Tim Lndsay, y&r
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