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Hovis is UK’s most “iconic” ad – 45 years later
Ridley Scott’s ‘Boy on the bike’ ad for Hovis and agency Collett Dickenson Pearce has been voted both the UK’s…
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Goodby Silverstein for Liberty Mutual: can jokes ride to the rescue of adland creativity?
We observed the other day that Wieden+Kennedy HQ in Portland was becoming quite the comedy factory, latterly for Orange Vanilla…
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Is the ASA’s bid to clean up ads the death knell for humour?
The UK’s ASA seems to have put the cat among the pigeons with its somewhat prescriptive plan to ban “gender…
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Not only Peter Cook but also Dudley Moore for CDP’s vintage Harveys Bristol Cream
Here’s a rare one from the archives – remastered by the look of it – reminding us that one of…
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Mike Everett: why CDP’s John Salmon was much more than a man in the right place at the right time
An appreciation of John Salmon by Mike Everett (left) Back in the seventies, Paul Smith and I asked John…
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Great creative director John Salmon of CDP dies at 85
John Salmon, one of the great British creative directors at a time when British advertising led the world, has died…
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A memory of great CDP art director Alan Waldie
Legendary art director Alan Waldie died last week aged 76. He worked on some of the most famous UK ads…
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Nobody made better ads than CDP did for Hamlet – have we found out everything and learned nothing?
Is it really true that ad’s ain’t (as good as) what they used to be? After all, in this wonderful…
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