Sometimes people ask me where on earth I find all the work for these posts. To me, that’s the easy part. And although it’s sometimes time consuming, there’s a finite amount of places I have to check out. Like doing a big jigsaw. The difficult bit is this bit. What to say about it? Sometimes I have nothing to say. Putting ‘Check out these bangers!’ before a hundred ads seems lazy. But what if I didn’t know the person. NeverRead more
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THE WOMEN WHO BUILT DDB, 1: Phyllis Robinson
‘We used to have more female than male writers back in the 60s.’ Someone in the HR department of DDB NY told me that, about 5 years ago. Occasionally I’ll remember it and wonder whether it’s true, if it was; why it happened and why it changed. I just looked into it; it’s true. In looking into it, something else dawned on me. DDB in the fifties and sixties were, and still are in some quarters, considered the best, mostRead more