For the first time in history, Americans don’t believe their children will enjoy a better life. This is bad news for business. The currency that sustains brands, businesses and governments is trust – and it’s never been in shorter supply. If the American consumer wrote a letter to management, it would go like this: [...]

In the 1994 the Bugs Bunny short “What’s Opera Doc” was voted the greatest cartoon of all time. The film was the anchor of the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals. There are many reason for this, including the brilliant mockery of Wagner’s ponderous operatic style, the unbridled glee with which the [...]

In 1919, Alex Osborn joined with Bruce Fairchild Barton and Roy Sarles Durstine to form the BDO advertising agency. He was largely responsible for the 1928 merger of BDO (Barton, Durstine & Osborn) with the George Batten Company to create BBDO. After years of success and having survived the Great Depression, BBDO underwent a crisis [...]

It’s on! So now we’re figuring out the logistics to bring the remarkable exhibit “Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010” to The Art Directors Club Gallery this June. It’s a cohesive selection of 153 amazing posters presenting an overview of diverse creative strategies employed by many countries working within their own [...]

In 2007 we started our firm with The Martin Agency and with the support of Mike Hughes, its President and Chief Creative Officer. Our partnership has been an extraordinarily productive journey on both sides. We’ve done terrific work together, including the design of the Microsoft Store and the launch of The Alliance for Climate Protection [...]

This time last year Creativity magazine chose to honor the iPhone rather than an ad campaign. It marked the ad industry’s arrival at a tipping-point. A year later, with consumers in control of ever more of the marketing conversation and economic news getting worse, design is now displacing messaging as the engine of brand success. Brilliant [...]