Creative

This is about as woke-free as it gets, A Benson & Hedges Silk Cut cinema ad from 1970 from the clearly over-stimulated psyches of CDP’s Paul Weiland and Graham Fink. Zulu had been one of the big hit films of ...

This short film uploaded by Mark Zuckerberg takes a moment to reflect on the importance of real people and real faces to our lives, with a poem read by gritty UK spoken word artist, Kate Tempest, and visuals that don’t ...

April is the cruellest month famously opined TS Eliot (can’t help recalling a celebrated Private Eye spoof with January, February and March crossed out by Ezra Pound – try April, he wrote.) But it’s no laughing matter for UK adland ...

In these isolated, locked-down times, with uncertainty and hardship ahead, my blast from the past is a beautiful slice of future-facing optimism – the launch commercial for Orange by WCRS. I re-joined WCRS to work on Orange just after this ...

Heineken 1985 by Lowe Howard-Spink I joined Gold Greenlees Trott (GGT) in 1984 and found a place with widely diverging social backgrounds from Dave Trott’s proletariat view of the world versus my assistant Bella who was from the Hanson family, ...

WPP CEO Mark Read has had a pretty good war so far and now he’s responded to the Covid-19 virus and consequent dramatic slowdown by scrapping its share buyback plan (saving £650m) and suspending its final 2019 dividend to save ...

I think my blast from the past has to be pretty much every ad BBH did for Levi’s. Always different, always spot on and always dictating cultural conversation. But if I had to pick one it would be Flat Eric, ...

Nobody likes online paywalls very much but journalism isn’t free (to provide that is) and they are one way of supporting it. In the nearly ten years of More About Advertising we’ve been free throughout and intend to stay that ...

People are reading more magazines and newspapers (if they can get hold of them) in the time of Covid-19 (I even read the leader in the Mail on Sunday which I never do.) Online magazine digital subscription app Readly has ...