Tributes are still rolling in for Jeremy Bullmore, former JWT creative director (in the days when big agencies had just one), chairman, WPP board director and eminence grise and the wittiest of business agony aunts. Martin Sorrell in Campaign called ...
Read More »JWT’s Jeremy Bullmore dies at 93.
It may be the holiday season but it’s also the time, sadly, that many people check out. Jeremy Bullmore, long-serving creative director and then chairman of JWT in its great days, has died at 93. He went on to be ...
Read More »WPP launches archive celebrating Jeremy Bullmore
WPP has launched an online archive in honour of Jeremy Bullmore, long-serving chairman of JWT and a WPP director. Bullmore is 93 this week. The archive includes various of Jeremy’s works: always an elegant writer this ranged from learned tomes ...
Read More »Adland’s philosopher king Jeremy Bullmore is 90
I see that Jeremy Bullmore, one time chairman of JWT London, WPP’s in-house intellectual and celebrated agony uncle, is 90. Jeremy was the other side of JWT in its great days, the intellectual (the word is un-ignorable with Jeremy) aspect ...
Read More »David Bernstein at his best – ‘improving’ David Ogilvy’s famous Hathaway ad
David Bernstein, one of the founders of The Creative Business – either a smallish agency or a big creative consultancy but famous in its day – has died aged 88. Bernstein had been a star creative director and writer and ...
Read More »Jeremy Bullmore reveals the flaw in agency/client marriage vows
Ask Bullmore is a venerable Campaign series in which former JWT chairman and WPP director Jeremy Bullmore answers various questions from readers. This is a fearsome job, like Dave Trott’s weekly musings, even though you don’t have to write very ...
Read More »Mad Men’s menu of managerial mendacity
t think it was the great Jeremy Bullmore who observed that Mad Men wasn’t actually about advertising. If it was, nobody would watch it. And he’s right – mostly. But some of it is about companies, the way people in ...
Read More »Now Samsung says Galaxy Gear holds key to romance
For some reason this opus from Samsung – which we might as well call Jack and Amy’s Galaxy Gear romance – has taken a fearsome amount of stick over in the US. Cheesy is just one of the more polite ...
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