I’ve spent over thirty years working within a few square miles of Soho Square. Historically, it’s where the majority of the client’s headquarters were situated. It’s also where country’s magazines, photographers, printers, film companies based, so it became where the bullseye for the country’s ad agencies. Leaf through a bunch of awards annuals and you’ll be hard pressed to find work from another city. Birmingham and Manchester pop up periodically, but not regularly. But in the eighties, one city turnedRead more
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VOLKSWAGEN: ‘Abbo’.
‘‘Volkswagen want us to pitch.’’ If you’ve just started an agency – that’s what you dream of hearing. It was the Commercial Vehicles division, but was still big and still Volkswagen. Volkswagen; DDB, Bill Bernbach, Helmut Krone, etc. What an opportunity! But it’s 2009, the post-bank meltdown is really starting to bite. We’re officially in a recession and Volkswagen vans are dearer than non-Volkswagen vans. I need to find a writer who can actually write. Who can make the caseRead more