Tag Archives: Don Draper

Were the wages of sin better in those days? WeWork’s head of visualisation Greg Rogers has recreated Mad Man Don Draper’s swanky Upper East Side New York apartment, which looks pretty contemporary considering Don lived there nearly 60 years ago. ...

How many of you have wanted to do this? Mad Men’s Don Draper gatecrashes a Miller beer meeting to hear some researchnozzle (thanks George) stating the bleedin’ obvious from his pile of, no doubt, expensively acquired data. But he’s not ...

Client/agency relations seemed to have reached a nadir – in the UK and US anyway – with mistrust rife on both sides, financial and otherwise. Much of the talk, in media land anyway, is of contracts which leads to the ...

A soundbite can sometimes bite you back and WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell is more fond of them than most. Way back we had his “bath-shaped recession” (bumping along the bottom before a belated recovery) then “grey swans” (his version ...

For an industry that talks a lot about creativity, innovation and the future, advertising strategy is surprisingly rooted in the traditions of the past. DDB’s 50s creative teams and JWT’s 60s planning revolution were innovations created in times of cultural ...

Only one episode left before Don Draper and his band of merry madmen head off to that great pitch deck in the sky. Self-loathing cheat, serial lady-killer, fraud, alcoholic, ad man – I love Don Draper. I love his sharp ...

Mad Men (and increasingly crazy women) is winding to an end in the US at the weekend so the Orange Couch, which has faithfully been deconstructing the antics of Madison Avenue’s not-so-finest, is having to turn its attention to Game ...

You couldn’t make it up really. Is this what agency life on Mad. Ave. was like in the 1960’s? Still probably the way to a creative director’s heart…or something

Here, courtesy of Adweek, are some of the highlights of the latest Mad Men. Don has a threesome with Megan and a hippie, a mad writer slices his nipple off to impress Peggy and, still, agency and client deal with ...