PODCAST: LAURENCE GREEN (Pt. 1)

Finally; a planner! (Well, maybe my third, although Paul Feldwick and Sarah Carter weren’t talking about their careers.) Creatives operating the seventies hated planners. ‘They ruined the business’ and ‘they took all the fun out of advertising’ being their most common complaint. As they see it; planners stole half their job. Their instincts were replaced by the data obsessed views of these Oxbridge types. Clarity became more important than cut through. They get accused of sanding off the edges andRead more

PODCAST: Yvonne Chalkley

If you’ve ever wondered how reliant creatives are on their producers, count how many are married to them. Lots. Including me, my two creative partners at Campbell Doyle Dye and dozens of friends.  Psychologists say we seek qualities in a partner we don’t have ourselves. To create more complete children. So right brainers, who come up with the theories, need left brainers to help turn them into reality. Yvonne Chalkley has turned more crazy, impossible, can’t-be-done theories into reality thanRead more