Tag Archives: CDP

Campaign has just produced its list of the best 20 British agencies (to mark the mag’s 50th birthday) and it’s hard to argue with its choices although one might question to decision to include media agencies. Not that they haven’t ...

The UK’s ASA seems to have put the cat among the pigeons with its somewhat prescriptive plan to ban “gender stereotyping” ads, with lots of people saying its too bossy boots/Big Brother (the book that is). Here’s a compilation of ...

Here’s a rare one from the archives – remastered by the look of it – reminding us that one of the key aspects of the great Collett Dickenson Pearce was its ability to persuade proper stars to appear in its ...

An appreciation of John Salmon by Mike Everett (left)   Back in the seventies, Paul Smith and I asked John Salmon (below) how he got the job of creative director at Collett, Dickenson and Pearce. “I was in the right ...

John Salmon, one of the great British creative directors at a time when British advertising led the world, has died aged 85. Salmon was creative director of Collett Dickenson Pearce, following in the footsteps of the legendary Colin Millward. Salmon, ...

Legendary art director Alan Waldie died last week aged 76. He worked on some of the most famous UK ads in his years at the great CDP and, afterwards, at Lowe Howard-Spink. In November last year he was presented with ...

Is it really true that ad’s ain’t (as good as) what they used to be? After all, in this wonderful world of data and targeting we know what we’re doing – don’t we? We’re about to make our choice of ...

It’s the 60th anniversary of the first TV ad in the UK (September 22) so expect of barrage of surveys and so on to mark the event. Here’s the first one broadcast, for Unilever’s Gibbs SR toothpaste, now known as ...

George Cole, star of Minder, arguably the best comedy series ITV ever made, and, before that, Flash Harry in the St Trinian’s films, has died aged 90. In the 1980s he essayed some of Minder’s Arthur Daley (although he denied ...