I don t know him, but three cheers for Mike Soutar, former FHM editor and now managing director of Kiss FM. At last week s PPA conference, Soutar poured a bucket of cold water over a publishing industry that has deluded itself into thinking that masthead TV is the next best thing to, well, colour printing....
John Tylee chooses Leo Burnett s latest McDonald s commercial: As a kid who used to hang around White Hart Lane with an autograph book, I identify with this tale of the lad from McDonald s and the England striker. Written by Nick Bell, art directed by Mark Tutssel and directed by Kirk Jones through...
Eleanor Trickett selects J. Walter Thompson s latest ad for Colman s Sauces: This is truly obscene, and I don t mean all the humane issues surrounding a pig which doesn t want to end up as a casserole; I mean the prospect of eating something as hideous as this Bernard Manning lookalike .
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Fat Fish Films has closed and its two founders, Jacci Barrett, the managing director, and Carlton Chase, a director, have moved to Blink Productions where they will continue to work together.
Kevin Maloney has left Stark Films, where he has been working for the past year, to join Union Commercials.
Simon Levene, one of Rose Hackney Barber s busiest directors, has quit the company to join Pink Films.
Palomar Pictures Europe has strengthened its commercials roster with four new directors: Jean Pierre Jeunet, who directed Delicatessen; Pierre Winther; Jonas Grimas, the drama director, and the newcomer, Marco Chiandetti.
Aside from the flurry of excitement surrounding Nike s emotive parklife film and BMP DDB s mould-breaking Volkswagen work, a far less showy campaign has been quietly gaining significant industry approval.
Jason Harrington has spent the past few weeks sailing around the Bahamas on an 80-foot yacht, chasing dolphins and directing a commercial for John Player Gold Leaf cigarettes. He then tries to convince me advertising is not for him.
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