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My thanks to Adscam’s George Parker for reminding me how brilliant Dave Dye’s blog Stuff From The Loft is. In this piece Dave speaks to Len Sirowitz, one of the top art directors at Doyle Dane Bernbach in the 1960s. ...

DDB’s global ECD Jeremy Craigen, a former ECD of DDB London before the 2011 merger with adam&eve, is leaving after 25 years. Craigen (left) says it’s now “time to go and find some exciting new challenges outside of the world ...

Before you know it, it’ll be time to pack the Piz Buin and Restore and head for Cannes. And the International Festival of Creativity always has the capacity to surprise us – this time with a new award, ‘The Lioness.’ ...

Ad Age reports that Leo Burnett has won the task to refresh/rebrand McDonald’s (take your pick) promised recently by CEO Don Thompson. McDonald’s is suffering from falling sales inside and outside the US. Although Publicis Groupe-owned Burnett is McDonald’s’ main ...

Surely some mistake? No, McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson (left) has promised analysts in the US that the company is about to embark on an 18-month exercise aimed at making the flagging fast food giant a “more trusted and respected brand.” ...

That’s a big claim isn’t it? But Julian Koenig (left), who has died aged 93, was the man who wrote the celebrated ‘Think Small’ campaign (below) for Volkswagen and agency Doyle Dane Bernbach. This was in an era when American ...

The DDB network is famous for lots of things although, it must be said, more for what it did – Bill Bernbach and all that – than what it does now across the piece. But you can say that of ...

Why’s it such a hot seat? Because JWT (or J. Walter Thompson as we’re now supposed to call it, again) has had more creative directors on either side of the Atlantic than you could shake a stick at in recent ...

McDonald’s has just posted its first sales drop in nine years and so CEO Don Thompson (left) is threatening lead agencies DDB and Leo Burnett with all manner of horrors, including new agencies on the account or even losing their ...