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Ad Celebrity Book List: Jay Giesen

Around this time last year, ihaveanidea created an extensive user survey to find out what our community liked and didn’t like about the site, and we used that info to create an all-new ihaveanidea. One of the things we learned is that while most of our users were indifferent about our old Literature section, they [...]

Ad Celebrity Book List: Rick Boyko

When we asked ad agency legend turned VCU Adcenter legend Rick Boyko to tell us what kinds of books would we find on his bookshelf, his coffee table, the back of his toilet tank, wherever, we didn’t know he’d respond so literally. May we present to you: “what Rick Boyko reads when he’s on the [...]

Ad Celebrity Book List: Luke Sullivan

Ask anybody in the business -from ad school hopeful to Worldwide Creative Director - to name their favorite books on advertising, and you’re guaranteed to hear multiple mentions of Luke Sullivan’s “Hey Whipple, Squeeze This!” Even our last ad celebrity put this ‘ad Bible’ on his own Top Ten list.

So that got us at ihaveanidea [...]

Ad Celebrity Book List: Chris Wall

I read a lot. I always did.

How can you write if you don’t read? If you don’t love words? If you don’t love stories?
I like writers more than books. If you’ve got one good one in you, why not another?
If I like an author, I’ll read more. Not always. [...]

Ad Celebrity Book List: Sharoz Makarechi

There aren’t too many shops like Think Tank 3 in the Big Apple, or anywhere else for that matter. For one, they’re located in a storefront in the West Village, with a set-up that encourages everyday passersby to peek through the windows and even come inside to see what kind of place. Two, they often [...]

Ad Celebrity Book List: Marty Orzio

You’d figure that someone like a high school English teacher would have a number of great books to recommend reading. Imagine the book list of somebody who started as an English teacher and went on to become the head CD of one of Chicago’s most prominent agencies? That’s exactly what we get when we asked [...]

Ad Celebrity Book List: Frank Palmer

The city of Vancouver is famous for its breathtaking mountain-meets-ocean scenery, an outdoorsy attitude and for having one Starbucks outlet for every twelve people. In the ad world, Vancouver is a city where some of the best ads in North America and the world have been created. And if one person could take credit for [...]

Ad Celebrity Book List: Alan Russell

A number of creatives build their careers by moving from shop to shop, going wherever opportunity takes them. Then there is Alan Russell, a man whose successes were built under one roof for nearly two decades. Alan has been instrumental in turning the agency formerly known as Palmer Jarvis into one of the most awarded [...]

Ad Celebrity Book List: Neil French

Neil French has been a rent collector, account executive, advertising manager, waiter, singer, matador, beach-bum, pornographer, bouncer, debt-collector, concert promoter, nightclub owner, Judas Priests’ rock-band manager, copywriter, art-director, creative director, film director, actor, television station owner, Worldwide Creative Director of Ogilvy and Godfather and Worldwide Creative Director of WPP. “Ten Favourite-ever books”, is a tall [...]

Ad Celebrity Book List: Chris Staples

Chris Staples is the founder and creative director of Rethink in Vancouver, one of North America’s most celebrated creative shops. Before turning Rethink into the award-amassing agency it is today, Chris was the creative director of DDB Canada Vancouver (formerly PJDDB)… basically helping turn that place into the award amassing agency it is today.
Rethink [...]