Bob Moore
For some people, home is wherever you rest your head at night. For others, home is a specific place, and no matter where life takes you in this great big world, you’re always drawn to the familiarity of ‘home.’
Bob Moore seems to fall into that latter category, where ‘home’ includes the blue oceans, green forests and majestic peaks of the Pacific Northwest. Sure, he’s braved the wilds of Minnesota, and he helped put Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam on the map, but he has always come back ‘home’. Even today, as the Chief Creative Officer for Publicis USA, his main office is not in the network’s New York location, but rather in Seattle, where his career is as bright as ever,
Dominique Trudeau
Vice President, Creative Director
Bleublancrouge
Here’s a short excerpt of a recently overheard conversation between Dominique and another Montreal creative director we shall refer to as “Creative Director A” for the benefit of this short exercise:
Creative Director A: You’re the interactive guy.
Dominique: Well yes, but I do everything now.
Creative Director A: Oh…
It is kind of true that [...]
Robert Wong
Executive Creative Director
Google Creative Lab
How do you go from a career of left brain number crunching to being a right brain heavyweight at Google Creative Lab? You could try doing things the Robert Wong way, but then that would require you to be born Chinese, live in the Netherlands and become an accountant in Canada [...]
Tony Granger
Worldwide Chief Creative Officer
Young & Rubicam
Where do you hope to be in your professional career ten years from now? Five years? A year? Most of us don’t even have the slightest idea about what we’ll have for lunch tomorrow. Not that Tony Granger has his objectives mapped out to that level of detail, but the [...]
Andrew Keller
Partner/Co-Executive Creative Director
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
When you enter the ad industry, something becomes very clear rather quickly : everybody in the world wants to work at Crispin, even if they don’t know it yet. Be it for the wacky Burger King campaigns, Alex Bogusky’s personal guitar lessons, or the clean air you’ll breathe in the [...]
PJ Pereira
Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder
Pereira & O’Dell
PJ Pereira is somewhat of an overachiever. After fulfilling every creative’s career long dream of leaving the day job, starting his own agency and winning a couple of Cannes Grand Prix, he moved on to become the Executive Creative Director at one of the most innovative and fast growing [...]
Rei Inamoto
Global Creative Director
AKQA
Hey advertising creatives! Allow me to let you all in on a little secret about the future of the ad business. Are you ready? Here it goes…
The future is digital.
Wait a second. Didn’t Brett already say those exact words a few interviews back? Maybe so, but it bears repeating when you’re sitting down [...]
Tay Guan Hin
Regional ECD, South-East Asia
JWT
I recently had a chance to catch up with Tay Guan Hin, JWT’s Regional ECD for South-East Asia after what might’ve been the longest game of phone-tag in history.
He is very busy.
Guan’s ihaveanidea interview has been a long time coming. After overcoming the most fearsome of obstacles a young creative’s career could [...]
Michael Lebowitz
Founder and CEO
Big Spaceship
Hey advertising creatives! Allow me to let you all in on a little secret about the future of the ad business. Are you ready? Here it goes…
The future is digital.
Okay, okay, maybe that isn’t such a revelation. But it wasn’t that long ago when things like super-interactive websites, mobile content and social [...]
