By Stuart Smith on January 16, 2012
Creatives, sharpen your pencils. Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, has a new challenge for you. Well, not ‘new’ perhaps; more “retro”. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hone those copy skills which you might, if you were extremely lucky, have learned at the knee of David Abbott or, very distantly indeed, Bill [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged amc, avis, beetle ads, Bill Bernbach, daily beast, David Abbott, ddb, Don Draper, lionsgate, mad men, Matthew Weiner, newsweek, Tina Brown, vw, we try harder
By Stephen Foster on July 26, 2010
The fourth series of Madison Avenue drama Mad Men about the Sterling Cooper agency began in the US at the weekend with our heroes Don Draper, charismatic creative director, and smoothiechops CEO Roger Sterling, freshly fired by their villainous new British owners, setting up their own agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Cooper, Roger’s father’s partner, [...]
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By Stephen Foster on July 18, 2010
Legendary New York adman Jerry Della Femina is plugging a reissue of his seminal book ‘From those wonderful folks who gave you Pearl Harbor,’ set in the 1960s , and claimed to the Guardian that he was a combo of Mad Men stalwarts Don Draper, Peggy Olson and Bert Cooper all in one person. Well [...]
Posted in Agencies, News | Tagged collett dickenson pearce, Don Draper, Jerry Della Femina, mad men, Matthew Weiner, the guardian
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