Art & Copy (2009) - full transcript
ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time -- people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising's "creative revolution" of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation: George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney and others featured in ART & COPY were responsible for "Just Do It," "I Love NY," "Where's the Beef?," "Got Milk," "Think Different," and brilliant campaigns for everything from cars to presidents. They managed to grab the attention of millions and truly move them. Visually interwoven with their stories, TV satellites are launched, billboards are erected, and the social and cultural impact of their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce, and human emotion.
by IDDECO & Kinder
What is most frightening, and more difficult,
of what they call being a creative,
you do not have the slightest idea of
really where your thoughts come from
And especially, you have no idea
Where will the next day venirte
There is an urgency in the human, to put
something there and see what happens to people
We are doing the same thing,
those painted in caves,
we are creating an environment that makes us
feel comfortable, or feel concerned
or get a reaction from us,
which the community has wanted
The three figures above,
are lookouts
in the tradition of the
[Indians] Tsimshian
The watchers care about the house and all
those who were in it, and are guardians
And they sit on top of the eagle,
would be the carver's clan
The image below is an elder and
on the palms of the hands ...
... That eye means giving
something, or a gift
And the figure on the base is a mother
frog, with his son in the back
And that represents us,
Tsimshian culture because
Frog is the messenger:
"Croak-croak-croak"
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DOUG PRAY
ART & COPY
They call us "rotators" call us "rotators"
because we rotate a sign to another sign
and rotating along copies
City
My family has been doing it since
I do not know, 1900 and something, and 1930 and peak
My grandfather was billsticker
for the same company
That's my great-grandfather,
the grandfather of my father
I never thought, 'This is what my grandfather did,
and my great-grandfather, and I want to do, '
It was the day I came home
After graduating from high school was:
the next week or make a
Billboard interview,
or go to the army, or to college,
instead of staying on the couch
My father never missed work
while I was growing
Grandpa never lacked work,
Even my great-grandfather during the
Great Depression, was working
They were never without
employment, never
There has been activity ...
I do not know any that do
ads, I personally do not ...
I was once on a TV program
David Saskin of that
on What is Advertising?
And Jay's uncle Walter
was like 5 minutes talking
of Marketing, this and that
I do not know what
demons spoke
and he said: "George,
Why make funny faces? "
I said, "David, I think these two types
other profession are different "
He said, "What do you think
is advertising? "
Well, I think that advertising
gas is toxic
Advertising should you shred, atragantarte,
may give you chills and dismayed to see
It is a romantic story, it really is ...
Bill Bernbach, Ned Doyle, Bob Gage and I were working for the agency Gray
Bill went into Bob's office one day
and said, "Well, let's do it"
Ned Doyle has been with us and I thought:
"Mother, the seller fiercest I've seen"
And I had a friend, 'Mac' Dane
with whom he plays tennis ...
I said, "Doyle Dane Bernbach" [DDB]
has a great cadence
Gage and Bernbach ...
... And I am the one hand,
of that smoking
We were fourteen, fourteen people
when we started
Including the uncle of production,
and whoever answered the phone
And I was appointed Director of Copy
The same glasses, you see?
No thought, 'Wow, I enter a site that
Advertising is going to win, 'you know?
I had no idea of ??how large
important would be the movement
I knew it would be
exciting
Advertising until the end of
50 when he entered the Bill Bernbach
It was an old-style club, come from the
right school, have connections
And so for years,
increasing mediocrity
And at first gave no option,
you know, like wet gunpowder
They always go down, but
was not far below, were they ...
You said people who worked for DDB
and they felt that you became gold
Was where
had to be
And it was such an honor to work there
It was like working for someone
terribly powerful
Bill Bernbach added a whole new
Advertising creative force
by putting the Creative Director
the same office that the Copy
That had not ever done before
In J. Walter, my text had to upload
upstairs, the Director of Art
who had to make the announcement
from my text
He never talked, Art Director
not participate, in what was thought
Then Bernbach said, "Art Director
Here to Copy, work on it together,
from a blank sheet of paper "
Think Small
Lemon
Perfect
Nobody is perfect
Those of Volkswagen are the most
known, of course,
That stroller German,
no one liked,
because everything was so close
the dashboard
Nobody thought that this car ugly
sell German
The car became the most
'In', 'chic' and 'cool' the moment
He had the ability to see how
cut with a tradition
that stood in the sale of a product
and turn it around, making positive
There has always been
Fantastic copys
There are great story lines
of advertising
That "they laughed when I sat
at the piano "
or "walk one mile
for a Camel "
There are thousands of them, you know ...
What you wanted them to enter
is the fact that when you made
advertising always looking for the great idea
and do something that stuns ...
Dear and clumsy janitors,
taxi gross
receptionists neglected
and to all who have hands
Butter the world
We do have a suitcase
for you
American Tourister, from $ 20
It was a pleasure at this time
see advertising agencies come from 4,5,6
and I was glad to see these campaigns come
Now look at the advertising and stay
Wah, wah, wah '
Bob Dylan, Malcolm X, John Kennedy and Fidel Castro
And the evolution is that it was almost like a prophetic thing
Many of the covers of Esquire I did ... ads are cultural debates, a manifesto
who say, "These guys are doing fantastic things there
Here goes something, something exciting ...
The black Santa Claus was a joke of mine
America for white
Everyone said, 'My God, I favor
the rights of blacks
but they have gone too far, and black stockings'
I said, fuck them, this Santa
going down the chimney
and I will cut the balls
Mohammad Ali as St. Sebastian
boxing shorts came in and said:
"I want you to poses and Mohammad
relaxed, in the same way, but with your head in agony
I hated the system, the status quo
were changing the world
and all respected him
and really understand
you were changing the culture
policy statements and creating graphs
grab you by the heart, the throat
and are manifest, how the hell do you think life should be
And I think that's what I've done my whole life with my advertising
I was selling products, but also trying to argue something
The public can, and should, and sometimes has been evolutionary, subversive
six, eight, nine ... nine ..
... 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 ...
This is what is at stake:
create a world in which all children
God can live,
or fall in the dark.
Or love one another,
or we die ...
Vote for President Johnson
November 3
there is too much at stake for
you stay at home
The global business of Advertising exceed
the 544,000 million in 2010
You can not imagine today, life without satellites
44% of the satellites that are launched are for advertising
Satellites are the center of communications
Thanks to U.S. satellites
you can see on TV what happens on Earth
The ads come via satellite
but the satellites are in advertising
because advertising money can
pay and launch satellites
75% of revenues from satellite services
comes from television, and 70% of revenue comes from TV ads
My mother was very quiet, my father could not see
Ambulance driver was returned from the war total depressive
so most of my time growing up, he hid
and when we ate dinner not saying a word, you know ...
nobody talked about nothing
I think that people who are lone wolves
or have things to overcome when they are young
I think they get a fort, which is useful then
Everyone thought it would be an actress: It was unavoidable
and my mother in an attempt to get me out of Poland (Ohio)
I got into the theater because they could not afford dance classes
or singing lessons or anything like that
and my whole life changed, because everything was by / for the theater
And from the first time I worked in advertising
it was in a department store
all that experience around the theater all those years
I came thus: zzzsss, and I served
Switch to DDB showed me that was right from the beginning
it was the most exciting job where you could be
and it was the right place for me.
But it was like something printed, even for television
was like something printed on the move
I wanted to make theater
- Is not it wonderful?
So I left and went to DDB Jack Tinker & Partners
and I stay there for a while
and while I was there I tried my clients
do great things, they were very dramatic
Anyone who has been someone great in ads, at least in the creative
usually has those two qualities:
are vendors and entertainment, all in one
and she had a perfect
It was a time when all the planes came from the army
not thinking about food, not thinking about the service,
when you were there, was what could be more monotonous than
everyone seemed as army officers
But the campaign of the new Braniff was on my shoulders
and we had lots of fine papers with ideas,
piles and piles and piles
and hated all
And she goes down to the room
and for the fifteenth time
and look in the trash, along with my desktop
and see this fine crumpled piece of paper
and pulls on it, looks and says, 'What is this?'
'It occurs to us that every day,' I said,
'But we throw it, it's too obvious'
And she said: "Obviously? Is divine!"
He said, "Do that!"
"Brainiff International is building the world's most beautiful airline
Emilio Pucci hired to design our uniforms
Our hostesses are reversible coats green, open cut
space helmets to protect from rain
Red astronaut suits
and sometimes, something more comfortable
And Alexander Girard hired to rebuild our aircraft
Planes have blue, orange, yellow ...
You can travel seven times, without being in one of the same color
and in seven different color themes
And as we travel to Mexico and South America
or from Peru, Brazil and Argentina
cha, cha, cha
Braniff International announces the end of "jet plane" (plain plane)
It'll take you to your destination faster ...
... But I'll look
A Mary came up with the idea of ??painting the plane
it was she who "sold"-and believe me is no small-Braniff sold the idea to
and got the do
Oversaw the design of uniforms,
Pucci and hired Alexander Girard,
had all the equipment involved
And the advertising
was really the last piece, which was: how to announce this to the world ...
One of the hostesses of Braniff International
you'll find the plane
wear something like this
We had a stunning hostess of that
to which they thought well,
young, beautiful and with beautiful legs
and made fun of flying
People flying with us, it was a theatrical experience
It was a time when people worshiped the marketing
understood it, it went well with each other
The world had gone wrong in the war, depression, and people loved the fun ideas
Life was suddenly ... jovial
-Turn left
I can not, is looking at me
'OK, turn left
- We do not!
"No matter how badly you treat a Rebel
damage is very difficult "
- How am I doing?
- Much better than yesterday!
They needed a series of dramas, like a sitcom or so
I loved that extra effort, the fun, the drama that gave them
- Beware of the truck!
- What truck?
- Behind the bus!
- What bus?
"The Rebel has survived some of the worst drivers in the world"
- Should I turn on the wipers?
"It appears that the Rebel will take unexpected detours"
It starts at 4 o'clock in the morning
In my first job was between 5 and 5:30
In 70, the average citizen received about 1,000 daily advertising messages
Today they are near the 5,000
If conditions are right
and everything is ready, it takes about 13 minutes
A fierce seller, thank you very much, I loved
If you can find that kernel
the essence of what the product is
so if you speak of it no matter how you do it,
people will respond and say, "Yes, it is true";
But if you talk about it in an intense and memorable
say "Yes, indeed: I'll buy it"
It is a challenge to say the right thing, the right way
to get someone to do what you want me to do
And you have, and certainly have an effect on many people
If you want to move someone to do something, you have to connect to it
you can not throw in the face, with an explanation, or a joke about it,
have to reach them in some way
I worked for Clairol hair dye
I sold them the idea of ??showing youth
with the slogan: "He lets me be myself"
It has to do with people connecting with each other
I guess he got the message "Hey, someone give me recognition"
Bruce Gelb was president of Clairol
came with a friend and said:
'I want you to know
the woman who invented the 'me generation'
Bruce, I said no you're wrong
The 'me generation' was there, I realized
and I have mentioned, and I showed the evidence for this
In New York the worst employees, sent off branches
taking the worst of their creative and did creative director at San Francisco
When I walked into the office, there were many heroes in the creative
So creativity was not a word that was used both
The publicist was all, the movies you saw in the gray suit
While they were nobody's creative
Footmen were like they had in the agency
accounts and was the uncle important
So I thought I wanted to be the account
guys because they were important, if wanted to be an advertiser, you had to be accountable
and wear a suit, tie, one of those funny hats, things like ...
... That is what people did then
I tried for 6 months, and was the worst job I ever had
In the end I did a campaign in the late 60's, for a bank
It was an old bank, with its old customers
that they either were or dying, or about to do
and tried to replace these people for younger customers
I decided that there was nothing to talk about
so I went to the bank president and said:
'You know, I think with the money to call and write a song composers
on young people and their lives, and how they are changing, things like ...
And I can not tell what song it is, I'm not a composer,
and I can not say what will be the announcement, I can not until we have the song '
He said, 'That ... all sounds very vague '
Only just started ... to live ...
... White lace and promises ...
a kiss for good luck and the way we
only just begun ...
before sunrise ...
We got Paul Williams
We wrote the song
"We just started," which was number 1 or 2 throughout the country
So not only get a 'hit' national
also made some announcements pretty remarkable for the time
it said nothing
saved, "You have a long way to go. I want to help you get there", that's all.
All we did was to reflect the lives of people
and make it so that you 'play' the audience
They came in droves to the bank to borrow money and stuff
Then the bank decided that they do not want, because they brought money
would not give them money, they had no guarantees,
and finally decided to load the campaign and get rid of it
but meanwhile, what they did with the campaign was
who managed to extend to banks across the country
And the beginning of care received what was happening in San Francisco
something that finally happened.
The average American watches over 8 hours of TV a day
There are 1353 HD satellite channels throughout the world today,
this figure will grow by 350% by 2013
There are 565 channels of satellite TV in the U.S.
70% of households have 3 or more televisions
I grew up 'surfing' since I was 12 years
I went to the army guys from New York who had completed college
and already in a career
Missed an opportunity in his youth to rebel
when they were in their physical strength, sexual
and the ability to connect with life
I'll be happy until the day I die, having grown up on the beaches of California
I'm Lee Clow and offices are in Los Angeles
of TWDA Chiat Day
I am president of global operations and head of dep. creative
I was adopted and raised by working parents of lower middle class
who cared to continue cheering, "Go to art classes, I have told you go"
I drew a boat, with smoke rising in the correct direction of the fireplace
So I always had in mind, that my art could be my way of earning a living
I walked into the office in an agency that represents everything bad about the advertising business
an unscrupulous boss, he did do anything to keep a customer
did whatever it took to get a client
and basically despised all the creative department
With him was: "How big you want the logos, Lord?"
All they were concerned, was milking customers
and give them what they wanted
that bad formula, which composes the brunt of the work of our industry
And it almost seemed dishonest, let customers dictate a mediocre job
and pay us for it, when we aspired to do better
I was the head of the 'escape committee', because he said: "We can not stay here!"
It is a place of evil, we must go to agencies that created it right!
And I was fortunate to discover Chiat Day, who had been born
Jay Chiat and Guy Day were rebellious spirit of the pirate
I was trying to promote, not this other agency "lela"
By the time I left, they said, 'Do not let him re-enter'
realized it was an insidious cancer for the company
because he preached rebellion creatives 'Rebelaos'
'They can not do shit, if we do the ads for them:
You know, 'We should be in charge!'
California white wine and real fruit
mixed in bowl ... at a party ...
... On the beach
... And now comes the original mix in a bottle
"California Cooler, the real '
That's a beautiful sound!
I love this city, or not get me out of it
I grew up actually in the West Bronx deep
in a strict Irish Catholic vecinario
Wilder quarter of all
fistfights were 15, with 15 kids
that ended up being my best friends
but you had to fight your way, you know?
Because I am Greek
I always had this reputation of being tough with customers
and had been hard with customers,
I had this great idea, it is taught, and struggled to sell
and was trying to become rich
I had to drag them to become rich, going insane
You can thrill to sell a new type of pen,
'Wow, look at the pen, which pen-holders, what sensible
let me sell this bitch,
go feather, you know, it does work of art
You know, you could be excited about nearly anything
Watch the ads Maypo
all use the command, and changed by pressing,
and when you change, you see a scene after another,
command and pressing the son of a bitch,
and there is Mickey Mantle with a bat
"I want my Maypo!"
Johnny Unitas - "I want my Maypo!"
And press the knob, just in:
"I want my MTV!"
MTV I can get you to accept it, all cable TV operators
even if they were a year shitting on them
"Call your cable company and say, 'I want my MTV'"
They had no protectors with cable TVs
when I told Bob Pittman: 'I'll get
rock stars, you know,
and if we do it my way,
get thousands of rock fans,
going crazy with calls to the cable operators'
He said, 'You can not get stars, we all hate'
"The game will be getting rock stars'
And then went to see Mick Jagger and got:
"I want my MTV!"
They placed the ad in San Francisco on a Thursday night
at 8:30 in New York, which is 5:30 in San Francisco
And the cable operator calls Bob Pittman there
he gets the private line and says
'Do they remove that fucking TV ad "
Bob Pittman said, "take it off right away"
And San Francisco's uncle said, "By the way, I'll take it"
- Do you get what?
-The MTV - Why?
-Because I've had thousands of calls
It's done! In three seconds!
- I want my Maypo!
I have ... I have you I by the balls!
I have the ad!
That is advertising, baby
I can make a significant mark Hillfiger Tommy and famous
and in a couple of hours, you know
He is a visionary, seeing things that normal people do not see
And think they'll want to see before they know what they want
Just launch the launch of MTV ads
And this advertising campaign developed to present an unknown brand
the world of fashion, from morning to night
... And did
He said, 'I have an idea, why not put photos of Ralph Lauren
which is a white-haired old guy, Calvin Klein, it seems a little wrinkled,
Holstein and maybe he's dead ...
And then we say that you're next '
I said, 'You can not compare to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein
I can not compare myself, or so it sounds cool
I see myself looking at them, as gods
-I showed him the sign that says:
"The 4 major American designers are men's clothing"
And then C, and such ... Fill in the names ... Calvin Klein ... Ralph Lauren Perry Ellis ...
Then T_ H_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Who knew who T.H.? Tommy's mother "
'I do not want to participate in any of this "
"Of course, he saw that he could be penalized, said he could not do it"
He sat with me and said, 'Listen:
if you want a name you recognize something in this office
need to spend millions of dollars in advertising over and over and over again
and will take years ...
If you want your name out there right now,
and that people look for your clothes
only need something like this ... '
-I always hear the term "seemingly scandalous"
and if I look at something and think it is crazy,
2,3,4 in the following seconds or 20 seconds
you realize what you bet,
but it is better that the product is good,
because if the product is not good, I will bring to ruin
Because people will want to buy it and find that it sucks
-I do not sleep nights
because I thought this would be the end of my career
And now and then I thought, 'but ...
maybe you know my name, people look at the clothes and they like '.
They placed the ad, and the crowd went crazy
All Seventh Avenue said, "who is believed to be '
''...' Is not a designer Ralph and Calvin have worked years and years'
It was below Cousin Johnny, and the next week he was here
I said, 'There is a campaign that I have dreamed,
is a campaign that pictured Mr. George Louis
and convinced my partners, who must implement it
It was not my decision to make this campaign
I am struggling as a designer, I want the best for my company and my clothes
but I really am ashamed of it '
We made a giant billboard that put the same words
on Seventh Avenue to annoy Calvin
... And became famous overnight, literally
But I also brought such shame
I rolled up and worked as hard as I could never imagine
I knew there was only one way to demonstrate what they said was not true
and designing clothes was amazing
So I literally rolled up, and worked as an animal
Making sure that each button, zipper, keypad, color, fit, fabric
was a perfect
George gave him the "turbo" to my success, then took off all ...
began the the "hip-hp", then the rockers, then urban fashion,
then the parents and kids
My business grew into multi-billionaires and global
Good advertising makes food taste better,
makes the car run better, change the perception of all
In the case of "I Love New York" the most extraordinary thing was the music
The music came about two weeks to change advertising
And since the music came, New York changed
"Broadway is only one: it is in New York"
I think what you are manufacturing a feeling, you want
You can create any feeling that people want it to have
"Especially at night"
There are people who can play the piano, or singing
I was born, like other people from advertising, with the gift of
what they feel will make you feel 'on'
-I can not believe I ate that whole whoooole
'I ate, Ralph
Food companies spent 32,000 million dollars on advertising last year
The car spent more than 15,000 million
Advertisement of political campaigns: more than 2,600 million (in 2008)
This one here is my mantra, see?
"Simplicity brutal"
I have asked people to please simplify your ideas
He changed it to "brutally simple" one day ...
I'm not a rebel, I let go a lot
Does this table here? When school is designed
Every cut here is the art school
And it is with me ever since I've never changed my life table
It was a very good student, but his insights
It's like being the child [the story], he saw the naked Emperor
I saw things, but do not know what to do with them
I learned at the School of Art in New York, and saw the ugliness, and knew it was ugly, and I wanted to cure it,
and it is a curse, because when you see these things, you see nothing more
-I do not feel much stress, I'm a bit unconscious,
what makes it good at this, you know?
Rich guy is totally stressed
Rich is like a power cord
Well, I'm still showing my father that I'm good [something]
We think that is the key to everything ...
-I am the son of an uncle, who went to Wharton Business School
and a woman who is a painter and was born in Italy
And I think that is perfect for advertising
as if he had asked for it
-If the dog pee, we take
And he really liked a lot ...
-Jeff can be very different from me, but when we turn to an idea
somehow makes 'click', there is a yin-yang, and it works
'Our motto here is:' Art in the service of capitalism '
It comes from my father and my mother
'I wish to tell you we were so ready, we knew where they would go
Our goal was to make good publicity for milk in California
revive something like this product, which has been with us
from the beginning of time
Promote it as a generic product,
The reason is
there is no such thing as milk brands
if you ask people what to buy milk brand will tell
"The red brick of", or "2%, that's my check"
Milk sales fell 4% each year, and each year would ...
Everyone gave milk for granted and ended up being, "I put a Gatorade?"
If you are Nike, or if you use Apple
put new flavors, bottles, packaging, shoes,
White put a gallon bottle has not changed since 1993,
that's a real challenge
-The intention was that people do not run out of milk
implying buy some more, and that will be used for nonagricultural
They had to make a presentation, and had no title, and asked Jeff what do you want us to put up?
And I thought, why not put a question like 'Do you have milk?'
And someone corrected him: 'Jeff, that's not right, it should be, do you have enough milk?'
- 'Got Milk?' I looked and jam is the phrase ... is bad ...
is seedy, is not correct in English
And I said, "I like 'Got Milk' is something Molo. It is so short, that is almost nothing, is gone before you say the words
- Hahahaha ... it worked!
-The great advertising almost always begins with something that is true
-There were hundreds of millions of dollars were spent before this to say "milk is good for the body"
To say that you ran in a hurry, then Glu-Glu-Glu-Glu
And that's not true, not swallow milk after a 100-meter dash
I do not think that is good
The truth is you cut strawberries, put them in cereals,
Then you sit down and 'pests'
and do not have much ... 'agg, I need milk',
and that's the truth ... that's all
He had no idea where would the 'Got Milk?'
'We could spend all the time and money, to cut all such plagiarisms
but that would not sell more milk than
But more importantly, we were doing a favor
- 'Do you dance?' It's everywhere ... 'Do you' horse '?
It is also very sexual ...
'There's no other communication that draws attention, as an ad
Have a time limit to appeal to someone,
and you have to do with quality
It's like haiku
Since that announcement about Aaron Burr Got Milk
Each plane is working to get something
"And now, let this surprise call
with the question today of the $ 10,000-a difficult-
Who shot Alexander Hamilton in that famous duel?
Well, let phones and see who is out there ...
- '?Hoda?' 'Hello, $ 10,000 who fired ...?
- 'Abanbuu' - Excuse me?
- 'Abanbuu'
'I fear that time is running out
- 'Abanbuu!'
I'm sorry, maybe next time
- 'Abanbuu'
I think we try to entertain the society using the products, I think ...
And if a customer comes and hears him, 'you're not thinking about my product?'
Of course, but I think we are here every day to do something ...
... And especially to connect with society
some form of entertainment
'I always tell people, which is the same as creating art
I think things, and they set before the people, he changed
with a little luck, enriches them makes them feel something
and is a 'high' if it happens to hundreds of millions of people at once
Always differentiate between the things you experience as a person or individual
and you go and say, 'Wow, how cool' and you tell your friends;
and live as individual things, but you know that millions are living the while ...
It is a 'happening' community mass
and there is so much to offer you that in life.
Last year, Time Warner revenues of 8,800 million for advertising
A 30-second spot on "American Idol" costs $ 750,000
The value of Michael Jordan for Nike, is estimated at 5,200 million dollars
My name is David Kennedy
My ID number is 1944793
U.S. Navy
Blood type O, and atheist
I'm not an atheist
Creative people need that kind of duality
feel very safe, in a profound way
while they can take risks, and involved a lot at work
From what I've tried to worry about is the environment in which people work here
let them relax, be themselves, be adventurous
Have you seen the nest? Were you up in the nest?
This is a room where all our employees meet
There are all kinds of activities here
someone once said: "Wieden + Kennedy is like high school, but with money"
It's pretty much what happens to us
But back at 3 am
is like Santa's workshop [Claus], you know?
Owls do not return home at 5 [pm] ...
It's hard work, man ...
It is physically tough, mentally tough
We have to fight a lot so that people with crazy ideas come to mind
Where the hell is Kennedy's office?
I think most creative people are so damn insecure, they want to believe they know everything
but they know inside that are in trouble from rising in the morning
So if you say, "It's like you're supposed to be," sometimes as a release
This is the office of David ...
... And everything that has ever played is in this office
They are plastic pins
and this wall there are 100,000 thumbtacks
"Fail harder"
It took four days and four nights without stopping, do this
The background is made with pins
The easy thing would have been to make the lettering with them, and leave the wall blank
They chose the hard way
This concept is perfectly executed, you know?
And I think it should stay here forever
It's like Babe Ruth trying to hit a "home run"
If you fail, fail, but you should try at least herd with the bat as hard as you
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career
I've lost at least 300 games.
On 26 occasions, entrusted me with the game-winner ... and failed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my lifetime.
And that's the reason why I won ...
I have not had a failure in my life ...
... Probably had, but I have forgotten
Why not learn anything from a failure
If you sit down to think about why you failed, you're fucking alive
Because you have a business, and you suddenly say "George, be careful"
My mother told me to be careful, my father ... everyone told me to be careful
... Your coach, school, in the army they say, watch out ...
And when you go in advertising around the world there really tell you be careful,
at a meeting they say, "George, be careful"
Everyone wanted to load everything we did, just before it
Do you know? All were nervous
- Where's the beef?
They tried to load the "Where's the beef?" Issued the week before on TV
The guys said, "Oh, I dunno, maybe give us a good 'pan' to us"
-It really is a large loaf pan-A VERY large and large bread-Sponge
The test said "no way, under any circumstance emit?is"
- Hey, where's the beef ...? I think there is anyone out there back
Trained left hemisphere, with an MBA [business]
people with a mind trained to process data
which basically are the backbone of many companies
no creativity, no intuition,
no trust, no courage,
People think that if esl ice is three inches thick
that is too thick just
What I'm trying to tell everyone is
have the power to do what they're doing
Everything should be as ambitious
Ally, we got a new account and the first thing we did
was to be so damn absorbed by the enterprise
it was almost like owning it
and then going after the "truth of the product"
intense Ideas presented simply
Introducing a new company, FedEx
... Need to be in New York on Monday, Tuesday, Allegheny, New York Wednesday, Los Angeles Thursday, New York Friday, okay? ...
So you want to work here, why do think you deserve to work here?
Lord, I think I'll fit, I have a shrewd mind
Excellent, can start on Monday?
Conclusions ?, Gill, Bill, Bob, Carl, Fred, Lou, Dork, Aven, Ted?
Business is good, to work, thanks for coming to this meeting
Pete was on the bench, put him into office in Pittsburgh, Pete, Pete, Pete
Pete is perfect for Pittsburgh, I can call Pete would you?
In this fast paced world with so much pressure to "do it yesterday"
Do not you glad that there is a company that can keep up?
"When you absolutely, positively, has to be there the next day"
I certainly would face any tyrant, rather than a committee
The committees generally do not accept any risk
for that you create, so the blame is shared
Look at something and say, 'Oh, it's interesting ...' maybe 'Interesting'
I will make a final test, if I like ...
Many times people think of risk in terms of challenging the conventional
and is a form of risk, but I think that is the most important
is almost an easy target, you know?
I think the real risk is to be willing to be truly authentic
The whole trick to this office, is to stop pretending to be an advertising agency
and make sure that customer is a customer
and sit at the table and say, 'Well, what do we do?
How do we move people? '
What we do differently to advertising, we have to convince the customer, the uncle of the company,
to "buy" our idea, and after that, show it to the consumer
And you have to be able to talk to people who are not like you
and convince them to do things that are nothing to them
A 30 "during the Super Bowl cost $ 2.7 million
We made an announcement famous frogs
The Superbowl
All over the world to hear: "Bud-wei-serrr"
And the next Superbowl, the marketing people told me Bud:
"We have not taken anything from frogs, let's kill the campaign"
"Kill the campaign," interesting, rather, we should create characters that are charged to the frogs
Do you know? And kill the frogs in the Superbowl
And everyone thought it was a crazy idea
August Busch except third, which is like the autocratic dictator who runs the company
was: "It's like a movie. It's fun, I like. I like lizards.'re fun"
You could see the marketing plan thus: 'My God' ... they had no choice
'Wow, I'm not an electrician, but it must be dangerous
- Mother!
- Wow, brilliant!
-Franky, in the end, every frog has to "croascar" ...
'That's not funny
-Ehhh, I laugh when I'm sad
What does that have to do with beer?
Just want to take part in it, say 'Did you see that? I get it '
If there is truth in this, not a truth about the product
is not true of your relationship with the product when you buy
Sounds crazy, but I think what you say is: "I am part of people who understand this humor"
"I am part of that group" want to be part of that community, and the beer becomes the badge
I mean, it works
Brands are like people, something like:
"Do you think it is interesting that brand? Will take to the dinner? Is it always the same?
Or sometimes funny, sometimes serious? "
There is a black and white ad for Harley Davidson years ago
Harley's logo tattooed on somebody's arm, and basically said:
'When was the last time you felt a passion for something as well?'
It's crazy, you can feel how passionate people for brands
As if the marks were interesting people, fascinating, intellectual,
to which assigned a place of who you are
The interesting thing about branding is that you give an idea, not only the consumer
but also the company itself, who is she
and a sense, you know? And a sense of role and responsibility in the great economy
That's almost like being a midwife for [born] something amazing
I think we have higher aspirations for our customers
and more passion about what they can, should, or should try to be
than have them
We try to say, 'Hey, you can be more than a car company
can be more than a pet food company
can hope to give love to the dogs, instead of just giving them food
Throw a shot, but it will become, never do
But if you save it as it comes, you can edit it, and pretend that the methodology
There you go! Now put them together with the first part and ready
I think any competitive person
motivation to have something to prove
does not matter whether your father, or a Jay Chiat
but if you want to convey passion for the job
I think you almost have, to attack a rebel as well as
rather than, more organized
And I think that rebellious spirit, to be the David against Goliath,
as Chiat / TWDA against big agencies in New York,
or customers are small against the big
Is not it more fun, be small given the big kick?
Maybe it's because I could not kicking ass in high school to anyone
I saw that one way in the trade, to use my creativity
as jiu-jitsu, in terms of power and win the big storm
This is the original equipment from Apple, which launched the Macintosh
Each year in the Superbowl, someone calls to talk about 1984
people try to explain why it was a major milestone:
Some point to the fact that the product does not teach
large audience or the Superbowl, because nobody had done anything so dramatic
others point to the fact that once we issue only
But I really think it's one of those ...
everything happened just as it should
Number 1: We were presented something that was revolutionary
The Macintosh GUI and mouse, changed everything
How often in the history of advertising, you can really tell people that there is something great available?
And you can buy
Number 2: We had a client who believed in that would change the world, and he said:
'Make me an ad that looks like nothing you've done so far'
3: what happened in England with directors, had become film directors
were defining a genre of advertising, which had not reached the United States
And when frightened Board said:
'This is stupid, the company depends on this computer, what are you going to spendest that money on an advertisement or taught?'
Before the Superbowl, Jobs and Wozniak said, 'I'll pay half if you do the same'
"Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the directives of the Information Purification
We have created, for the first time in history, a garden of pure ideology
Where each worker flourish away from the plagues of confusing and contradictory truths
Our Unification of Thinking is a weapon more powerful than any army or navy on Earth
We are a people, a will, a resolution, a cause
Our enemies speak until his death, and buried them in his own confusion
We prevalerecemos!
On January 24th, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh
And you'll see why 1984 will not be like [the novel] "1984"
Everything was made to launch the product
is now done differently, thanks to that [same] product:
film editing, music editing and sound,
all TV production tools
all the tools we use to produce magazine ads, newspaper inserts
And to this day say that all computer companies make their ads on a Mac
Dedicated to the mad, the misfits, the rebels
that create problems, which do not fit the established mold
those who see things differently
not like the rules, and do not respect the "status quo"
can cit?rseles or disagree with them, glorify or vilification
but all is not possible, is to ignore
because things change ... move humanity forward
and where some might see some crazy, we see genius
... Because those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are those who succeed ...
It was all a communicator, indeed, was a very quiet boy,
when I came to advertising, I think even more than the 30, did not dare to speak at a meeting
and offer my opinion on what was
"If Earth were tilted slightly to the left
probably would not have happened
If the continents would have waited a day or two, start to drift
would be to doubt
And if the rain had not fallen that day, nor the moon had been full
Who knows?
Might not have a city called Vergeze
or its source, called Perrier
My father was a guy who did everything during the Depression
and struggled to earn a living, like many people then
and was rider, artist, funny, and a good salesman, and all that stuff
Still, it was essentially a failure
and ultimately led him to 'train' for signing bad checks
After that, I did not see much
I think that with the problems of my parents, my father was not much ...
emotions were a part of my life I always missed,
And I think (I'm not "shrink" or I left a lot to them) ...
but I suspect that the advertising was as a way to express some things that I experienced in my life
I missed many things, those wonderful families who still admire
And I think there a lot of that in my work
When Americans "buy" the experience Hal Riney
when they buy these campaigns, I often buy what they want them to be their lives
A feeling of childhood, or something that could be better,
if you had that father, the mother, or lived in such house, or in the small town
In an era of America that people would want to happen, and perhaps never did
But people do not understand, and I think that's how you live as a person
Actually, it was where he wanted his life
And is recreating it, and is so evocative and sexy, you're feeling it, you are living to this man
He drank a little more in those days, and there was a bar on the office,
so I used to do much work there and make Bourbon while working
And I wrote 3 or 4 ads for the campaign ... in about 2 ? hours, there
And a guy asked me 'What are you doing?' 'Well, writing a campaign
for re-election of the president, 'and said' Sure, Hal, take another drink '
It's morning again in America
Go to work today more men and women who have never in our history
with interest rates twice lower than in 1980
Nearly 2,000 families today will buy a new home
More than ever in the past four years
It is very common it is her voice that creates this feeling
and there is a cadence in it that is terribly relaxing
but I think after a while, and do not pay attention to exactly what it says
but the feeling that creates a warm and serene
it was perfect for a guy like Reagan
-It is day again in America
and under the leadership of President Reagan's most proud of the country, stronger and better
Why would we want to go back to where we were, just under four years ago?
Never forget the first time I showed the president the spots
he was broken, said 'I wish I was that good'
Reagan understood the power of emotion and of advertising
For him, a campaign [policy] was advertising
So, together with the 150 journalists, more skeptical of the world
and teach them the ads ... and silence
Obviously they had moved the ads
A few shook their heads, said it was great,
and then other skeptics said, 'We're manipulating the truth'
And I said: "Fortunately the people of the country does not look like you"
Hal was all move people with emotion,
either by Gallo or advertisements for Saturn, which was later in life
They are best for policy announcements, and I can testify, I have 40 years in politics
There's a bear in the woods
For some, the bear is easy to see, others do not see it at all
Hal Riney is the devil ... and the angel
Riney was that had the responsibility of the poster, that people knew that this was an ad
and when you talk to someone while you make it clear that it is in advertising,
but that world is gone and, you know?
Many of the things that happened in the name of advertising, is now upon us
forms seem absurd and otherwise
It is not advertising, is anything
Everything is an advertisement, a specialist
Graffiti on the wall, guerrilla tactics,
movies or theater, 'placement' of products
and thus, more, more, more ...
It's like air and water, is around you, and you happen
Always terrified me, Dan Wieden
will always tell you exactly what you think
Do much advertising is a very emotional, very difficult
not for the faint of heart
It was unusually exciting, being present at the birth of something like that
that looks like a 'bump' in the nerve in the cultural
Some things are not as long as you do, you know?
Otherwise, you could not make it the right way
It was clear that the mission # 1 of Nike athletes was to provide
but it was late 80's that the definition of athlete, expanded beyond the sponsored pros
Nike is often attributed the boom in the United States jogging
because Bill Bowerman, co-founder of 'imported' jogging to America
if you can imagine saying that ...
He had seen people jogging in Australia or New Zealand or something ...
People had started to run really for 'fitness',
what had not happened long before that
All I wanted to Nike, was to inspire people to participate in sport
mission is pretty good for a company
Actually, the inspiration came from a man who was about to be executed for murder in Utah
and his final words to the firing squad were: 'Let's do it! "
And so, I thought that I probably liked the "Do It"
That's not the version I heard when I came to Nike
sure did not want anyone to know that was the genesis of the phrase
None of us paid much attention, thinking, 'Yes, it worked'
And I think what happened is, like many things in life,
that are sometimes things that go unnoticed, do not really see,
people begin to take readings, beyond sport
I think they were surprised and delighted
but as admit, also completely stunned by the impact it had
-I think it's good to apply to life
- "Just do it"
'It seems that everyone can do it, you know?
'As he gave me a kick ... you know? It gave me new life with my career
- "Just do it", do what you want ...
It was the final year of high school, and encouraged me to ask this girl out
and get the courage to ask, and it worked ...
People will apply to all that put off, leaving for later
or to avoid confronting what
Women wrote to me saying, 'Finally I dropped the bomb'
Getting a divorce based on the slogan "Just do it"
I started receiving letters from people with emotional problems, or all subjects
in which this phrase, and this way of looking at the world,
they found something much more profound than even we were talking, you know?
There was a woman, Janet Champ, working in our agency with Charlotte Moore,
these creative and began to speak from within their experiences publicly
They took that discussion on what it really means to be a woman in today's world
and how women are looking for meaning in the world, and strength
They put everything all there, it was very personal, I think it was even a picture of Janet's mother, the ad
He was speaking at the University of Oregon and said, "Did you notice that women talking about women?"
"My God, I plucked, I went to my daughter will be 3 weeks and I said, 'That's what I was trying to tell you'"
-If you let me play
-If you let me play sports
'I myself more like me
I have more self-
-If you let me play sports
-If you let me play
-I have a 16% chance of having less breast cancer
-I will suffer less depression
-If you let me play sports
-Will be less likely to let a man hit me
-Will be less likely to get pregnant unintentionally
-I will learn ... learn ... learn what it means to be strong ... be strong
-If you let me play sports
Perhaps the "Just do it" made more healthy people in the world
maybe they got up and did: run and play and be healthier
but the reason why the campaign was successful
is because a nice man emotion, the notion that we can be healthier,
was suddenly in sync with a corporate mission
and sold a lot of equipment to the people
And we like, we like those two things together
We do not suspect these things, if they are in the same direction
People do not care to sell them things
if you understand why he has so, and enjoy the process ...
At the same time, you know, I wish you,
people to understand that the marks can be dangerous
are like a TV channel that you tune your body instantly
and if you like it, hear, like a dog waiting for something to happen
and attention as dangerous, which can be abused
and the greatest abuse is when you treat people like idiots
treat them as if they had no sense of humor, or like fools
that would be the greatest concern
I do not like my children to see bad publicity
I'm like everyone else, I think it's bad for them
I think I understand why people throw advertising, because a lot of advertising is basurilla
They are really trying to do something creative, enlightening and inspiring
very low point, something like:
'We want a piece of communication 30 "to tell people these five characteristics of product"
That is, as not very ambitious, you can do so much more ...
I see many ads on TV and think: there was no one in the room, saying 'not interesting'?
Nobody cares about that?
Someone would say that, in each room where you decide to adopt an ad
Each year, a typical child sees about 20,000 ads on TV
I think it's easy to be skeptical of advertising,
because we do not monitor us, and do things that people want inside
-We deserve the anger part
Americans see 61 minutes of ads every day ... on the Internet, TV, and mobile
65% of Americans think they are being "constantly bombarded with too much" advertising
My father was in the profession
so I thought that advertising was the most horrific profession which could be
It was late, away from family, and talked a long time,
intimate conversations with people who did not even like
and it was so nice to them, almost like a double-sided
It was a great man, you know, and I just thought the profession was something to avoid at all costs
It's what attracted us to be together
that mutual love-hate for the profession, you know,
I spent 15 years in Chicago before moving here
and hated publicity
I used to lie, tell the teachers of the children was a designer
do not mind a word on advertising
Most advertising is offensive, intrusive
infuriating, annoying, and intellectually based on the lowest common denominator
so it is a skill that is difficult, still feel proud
But I believe that when advertising is done well,
the wall or fence revere a brand, with art and beauty,
can become part of our culture, rather than one type of pollution
There are 17,500 photos for this session
this is like the final group, for vertical
and there are fifteen dance here
and I think there are chosen from top to bottom, that's a ...
... But also what works together ...
... There's more character, and makes everything a little more specific ...
... Hair is always nice ...
... Which is how this series will take ...
We brought this Latin dance instructor
and said "This rate, now is the samba"
and started doing the samba, with different partners
showing the different parts of the dance
was fun because we brought in plan consultant, and was talking about it, and began to dance
and the entire agency was around
and we knew it was a very special
Do we have taken against green screen?
Do we have some pictures of the dance "scat" that we use at first, to find out how it would work?
These things just out there in the world, as art
You know, if we go back a few centuries ago, in Paris
Toulouse-Lautrec was making posters that went through Paris
inviting people to the Folies Berg?re
Now considered art, and there are many books hardcover art, including works by Toulouse-Lautrec
But of that, just trying to get people out to take a drink
pay the admission fee and enter the Folies Berg?re
So I think we're in the office of art, when we do it right
We're on our way, we travel a lot
Now, I think I have a trip today ...
-Atlanta - Where? Yes, Atlanta ...
- What will you do there? I'm not sure
I had a great life, a busy life
but he had energy, I was born with that energy, is in my genes. I never tire
Maybe because I have no fear. I think the fear is a powerful ... sedative
This is an office of rejection. They "kill" things all the time
Start working, some ideas you yourself loads,
teach them to your partner and he / she is charged ideas,
Samples are customer ideas and charged
and they are taught to the control group and uploaded a couple of ideas
and then they teach the client again and decides that he does not like after all, because he saw his wife ...
And that can sometimes take a year, the process, you know, you can take a year
It is very stressful and depressing to be loaded and ideas
so there must be an environment that will strengthen around
because people have to get off the ground, and start again
This office is not a committee work, not a work of formulas
not a job, it is not a job that any of it go
It is not the large ones, or else
this is just a few really good
And if you're lucky enough, as I have been,
to have some of those people around you,
you can probably succeed, because not many of them, I tell you
There are many people in this job, but only a few really good
and only a few people who have the opportunity to do a good job
The agencies employ over 182.600 people in the U.S.. There are approximately 26,000 advertising agencies worldwide
80% of the advertising produced only four groups of international companies
?I can say anything else?
I do not think any organization or career success
If there is a lot of that love, old school, involved ...
and a deep sense of affection for each other, by the people you work with
And what you get ... if you cling to it, and make your choices with that in mind
even when you have to make tough decisions ... I think that makes a difference
It must be something more than an art hated, has to be bigger than that
is the way that large companies without a soul, you really have a personality
and interact with people in a way, hopefully, meaningful
They often do not have a way of interacting with the world
are as large solitary beasts in their caves, you know,
and help them get out ...
I think artists have a need, to express themselves and tell stories
and if you stop capitalist society, and will create a socialist / communist
in which there was no need for advertising, because you can only buy one type of soap, or car
people would not stop telling stories and things to convince
And if you do not say, 'Buy this car, buy this computer'
you would say, 'we should overthrow this government', 'we must change things'
But there would always be someone with a message ...
I've never been afraid of my talent or my ideas, or thoughts
or experience, or to learn ... I love new ideas
If someone comes up with a better idea than mine ... I love it!
For me is the celebration of the beam that [you] hit,
someone bumps into something and says 'God!'
"I think this is very very important or very 'cool'", you know ...
... And people feel that
So if you speak honestly and use this profession to do that,
Can go a 'shit' amazing!
I believe that creativity can solve everything ... everything ... everything ...!
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