Sir John Hegarty began his career as an art director at Benton & Bowles (he was later fired) and then moved to Cramer Saatchi and Saatchi & Saatchi before helping to launch TBWA in London. He founded Bartle Bogle Hegarty ...
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Desert Island Ads here is an always an illuminating experience and sometimes you come across something you hadn’t seen and think: that’s just great. Michael Lee’s recent DIA selection was interesting all the way through and he kicked it off ...
Read More »Michael Lee of Madam picks his Desert Island Ads
Michael Lee is a former ECD of Euro RSCG New York, handling Volvo worldwide. Born in England, he spent 20 years in New York agencies winning and working on integrated accounts including Intel, JP Morgan, Exxon Mobil and Jaguar. In ...
Read More »Hello People’s Dave Dye picks his Desert Island Ads
Two weeks ago Dave Dye set up London’s newest agency Hello People with former Ogilvy UK managers Hugh Baillie and Rachel Hatton. He previously worked at BMP, AMV/BBDO, Leagas Delaney, Campbell Doyle Dye and DHM winning awards for The Economist, ...
Read More »Andy Law picks his Desert Island Ads
Andy Law is chairman of innovation consultancy Fearlessly Frank. Prior to joining FF he helped to found some of London’s better creative agencies including St Luke’s and The Law Firm. Here’s his choice of, mostly, ads. Asked to pick my ...
Read More »AdScammer and author George Parker picks his Desert Island Ads
I was flattered when Stephen asked me to sully the pages of MAA with my choice of “Desert Island Ads.” After all, the previous writers have indeed been the crème of London’s adverati whose opinions are valued in the best ...
Read More »Neil Christie of Wieden+Kennedy London picks his Desert Island Ads
Neil Christie is managing director of Wieden+Kennedy London, one of the UK’s most awarded agencies and, since winning Tesco and Three among others, one of its biggest. He began his career in 1984 as a ‘lowly dogsbody’ (his words) at ...
Read More »Paul Simons picks his Desert Island Ads
The influences that began to shape my thinking started in university days with TV programmes such as Monty Python. New ideas were slowly creeping out and the migration to advertising didn’t take long. It was a period when the creative ...
Read More »MADE in London founder Mark Andrews picks his Desert Island Ads
Mark started at the BBC in news and current affairs then moved to the music business at Warner Bros. He joined advertising as a producer at CDP, becoming Head of TV in the late 80s, producing some of the most ...
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