Tag Archives: John Webster

At BMP’s party to celebrate the work of John Webster (left) I noticed something he had once written, the gist of which was that in Rembrandt’s time very few people saw his work, whereas millions will see your ad, so ...

Sarah Carter, who I don’t know, has written a book about John Webster, the famed creative director of Boase Massimi Pollitt. Webster took over from founder creative director Gabe Massimi following his fall-out with co-founder Martin Boase. Boase won. And ...

Jerry Judge is a co-founder of self-styled ‘capitalist collective’ The Fearless Group. Based in New York. Fearless is a new-style agency bringing together senior people from a number of marketing disciplines. Born in London, he has worked in senior management ...

And when the opportunity arises you’ve got to make the best of it. Which both Nicola Mendelsohn, boss of Karmarama and president of UK agency trade body the IPA, and the sainted Sir John Hegarty (pictured) both did this morning ...

1/ The most important adman in the world in the 1970s was Marion Harper (a bloke), head, first, of McCann-Erickson and then of Interpublic, the marcoms groups that grew off the back of McCann’s. Harper, who was born in Oklahoma ...

They do say that consumer brands are really the advertising rather than the product and the newish owners of Sugar Puffs in the UK (Big Bear which bought it from Quaker) have gone a stage further by trading as Honey ...

One Dr Daniel Mullensiefen no less, a lecturer in pyschology, music and computing at Goldsmiths college at the University of London. The doc will spend one day a week advising DDB London on neuroscientific theory and pyschological testing. This all ...