STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye
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STUFF FROM THE LOFT - Dave Dye
Interviews with the best advertising, design, photographic, typographic, illustration and film directing talent that are still alive*. (*It's just easier.)
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29 episodi
Derek Day Part 2.
To hear Derek tell it, his career was totally unplanned.
One impetuous decision after the next.
Leading to endless mistakes.
Exhibit...
Derek Day, Part 1.
Being one, I'm very aware of my fellow double d's out there in advertising.
Dave Droga - met once, gave him a lift after judging D&AD together.<...
John Webster & Research - Sarah Carter
You can count the number of Creatives who embrace research on one finger.
The rest of us desperately try to fight it with lines like 'you can't...
JOHN WEBSTER by DAVE TROTT
British advertising may have had more successful businessmen.
More accomplished creative directors.
Bigger award winners.
But never...
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 creat...
STEVE HUDSON
Imagine a day where you don’t own a computer, and you lose your phone just after breakfast.
We used to live like that.
Every damn day.
Martin 'Captain Pitch' Jones
Creating is different to managing.
Creators try to break rules, managers set them.
Creators look inward, managers look outward.
Crea...
JOHN LLOYD
Whatever happened to funny ads?
Have clients stopped buying them?
Or have agencies stopped writing them?
They used to dominate the a...
NICK COHEN
“A lot of people on your podcast became creatives by accident.”
Someone messaged me this last week (after listening to four of them back-to-back...
ALFREDO MARCANTONIO
So far, I’m about eighty podcasts in.
If someone tells me they listen, they usually follow up with ‘that Frank Lowe one’s great’ (or ‘sick’, dep...
Paul Feldwick
I used to like Teslas, I nearly bought one.
Not any more.
Obviously it’s still a great product, but it’s an Elon Musk company.
Michael Johnson
A muffin company wants to make more money.
It's hard to increase their current customers weekly muffin intake - so they need add some new ones.<...
Mary Wear.
‘Remember how seriously we all took it?
Not that we took ourselves seriously or that we didn’t have fun, but we just tried so, so hard to make g...
Gary Goldsmith
Pick up any New York Art Directors Club Annual from the sixties and you can feel the heat coming off the pages.
The Writers are using words prev...
David Kolbusz.
When you start out in your advertising career, Pentel in one hand, Macbook in the other, you seem to be surrounded by good work.
Awards books a...
TREVOR BEATTIE.
'Recorded any new podcasts lately?'
I get asked this a few times every week.
The askees range from college attendees to retired adman.
RADIO: Paul Burke interviews Nick Angell.
Back in the seventies there was a tv show called The Waltons.
A depression era family mooched about Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains dealing with...
Graham Fink. (Pt. 1)
Context.
It’s the word that comes to mind every time I think about writing one of these intros.
What seems familiar today was once conside...
Bob Hoffman: The Ad Contrarian.
I was just about to write ‘the business I joined 30 years ago is unrecognisable today’.
But then it occurred to me; that’s bullshit.
Take...
Tim Riley.
Words.
Boy, they’ve really fallen off their perch.
They used to be so respected, as were the people who knew how to use them.
They c...
Chris Palmer (Pt. 1: Advertising)
Chris Palmer.
My 5th boss.
His 1st job was as John Hegarty’s writer.
He won 5 D&AD silvers in his first in his first year.
Set...
Tom McElligott
After years of being amazed at what was on the net, I’m now increasingly surprised at what’s not.
Three years ago I was trawling for a particula...
Tony Davidson.
It’s weird, I only interview people whose work I really like, but whenever I lay their work out end-to-end, I’m always surprised at how much better it...
Mark Reddy.
‘Art Director’ is an unhelpful title.
It has nothing to do with Art and very little to do with directing.
Some think it’s about making stu...
Richard Foster
Read any article on good copywriting and you’ll find the same names appear.
David Abbott and Tony Brignull usually battle for the top two slots...
Gerry Graf.
The best ads appear effortless.
As if created accidentally, the result of a chance corridor meeting by people letting off steam on their way to...
Chris Wilkins
‘Chris is one of the few very, very bright people around.’
– CHARLES SAATCHI.
‘On his day he’s a much better writer than I am.’
Dave Hieatt.
Since he quit advertising, Dave has had a big effect on it.
First, with Howies.
His mail order catalogues built up more than customer base...
Sir Frank Lowe.
“Frank Lowe single-handedly cajoled a whole generation of writers, art directors and film directors into revolutionising British and world advertising...