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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...