Creative

Fashion and fragrance ads occupy a strange and rarefied world of their own but this latest opus for Chanel No 5 featuring Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt takes the petit gateau sec. How much did Coco’s old gaffe have to pay ...

HP Sauce (Houses of Parliament sauce as it used to be) is one of the hardy perennials of British life, as is its agency M&C Saatchi. And this new campaign, the brand’s first TV effort for five years, is very ...

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 ...

Earlier this week we had Alex Bogusky’s anti-sugar diatribe for the CSPI and now indie film maker Ariel Broggi is gaining some traction with this online film claiming that US children now are dying at a younger age than their ...

Windows 8, coming just two years after its predecessor, is the biggest bet that Microsoft has ever made. A decade ago Microsoft had the tech market signed up; everybody bought its ever more frequent upgrades for even more money even ...

Sarah Carter, who I don’t know, has written a book about John Webster, the famed creative director of Boase Massimi Pollitt. Webster took over from founder creative director Gabe Massimi following his fall-out with co-founder Martin Boase. Boase won. And ...

Here’s the new ad from TBWA’s Media Arts Lab for the latest iPod Touch. We haven’t seen one of these in a long time as the mighty Apple seemed to have forgotten about the iPod, even though it was the ...

What a nice client Unilever must be: just when BBH was reeling from swingeing cutbacks in its New York office the consumer goods giant has given it the global Dove Men+Care account, to be handled out of London and New ...

In his last incarnation at MDC Partners, the company that bought the agency he founded Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Alex Bogusky rejoiced in the title of chief insurgent officer. Well he’s back in the ad business, sort of, and has just made ...