Colin Millward, a legendary figure in British advertising has moved on up to the big agency in the sky. In 1960 he was made founding creative (art) Director of Collett Dickenson Pearce where he worked on now classic campaigns like Hamlet, Hovis, Vogue, Fiat and Benson & Hedges.
The Telegraph writes today: "The legendary maverick who put British ads on the map" - Ad Hoc.
We will have a silent minute while reminiscing over the old posters and ads in the History of advertising trust archives of CDP work.

Hear Scott Collins, author and reporter, discuss his book, “Crazy Like a Fox: The Inside Story of How Fox News Beat CNN” as well as how the cable and broadcast news industry has changed. Collins is a television/media reporter at the Los Angeles Times and he previously worked at The Hollywood Reporter and Inside.com.

Tune in Saturday 8-10 p.m. CET (2-4 p.m. EST) to theadvertisingshow.com for their live webcast. Or check out their commercial free archives.

Hear Austin Howe, founder and creative director of Radioland, discuss the radio industry, sound design, as well as casting celebrities and directing talent. Howe has worked to create award winning spots for agencies such as Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Wieden + Kennedy, TBWAChiatDay, Deutsch and Publicis. A longtime agency mogul, Austin Howe is most known for creating and producing radio campaigns for brands like Nike, Budweiser, Levi’s, Starbucks, AT&T, Mitsubishi Motors, Toyota, and E&J Gallo.

Apparently, some advertising organization is behind turning Madison and 50th into the Hollywood Boulevard of NY, only in this case, names of famous advertising characters will be immortalized in the sidewalk.

The title of this shenanigans? The Advertising Walk of Fame. If you want to find out more -- and perhaps vote for characters like Mr. Clean, the Energizer Bunny, and Charlie Tuna -- visit advertisingweeknyc.com... Read more about this on adweek.com, too. If you care.

What do Ogilvy’s Brian Collins, Wieden’s Ty Montague and Euro’s John Rea all have in common?
Yes, they’re all creative directors at the world’s finest ad agencies but they also share the responsibility of judging the first annual STEP inside design advertising competition.

Have your work (printed, published or aired between Jan. 1, 2003- to May 1, 2004) reviewed by the industry’s finest. Selected work will be featured in the September/October issue of STEP.

Print $30 each; $50 per TV spot and web banner, $150 multiple media campaigns.
Deadline May 15.

Hear Alex Ben Block, editor of Television Week Magazine, discuss the future of television from reality TV to network entertainment programs. A renown author of “Outfoxed: The Inside Story of America's Fourth Television Network” and “The Legend of Bruce Lee”, Block has a widespread industry background in not only television but radio and the entertainment business.

Hear Jon Margolis and Sean McCarthy, co-founders of The Michael Alan Group, discuss their stealth and guerilla marketing techniques for Christian Dior’s handbags to premiering HBO’s Project Greenlight.
Tune in Saturday 8-10 p.m. CET (2-4 p.m. EST) to The Advertising Show for their live webcast. Or check out their commercial free archives

FREE GIFT INSIDE! Got your attention didn’t I? Learn how to tease consumers from the expert Stephen Brown, author of “Free Gift Inside”. His website sfxbrown.com says Stephen Brown is The-Professor-Formerly-Known-as-Retailing at the University of Ulster but really he's an academic installation artist.

Former Wieden+Kennedy Creatives Join Forces With Ex-Microsoft Ad Director to Open Full-Service Agency With Offices in Los Angeles and Amsterdam today.

Robert Nakata who will head the 72andSunny Amsterdam office comments “Who wouldn’t want to work at a place called 72andSunny?”

Hear serial deal maker, Richard Yaffa, share partnership marketing secrets on Givenchy/Disney, Sephora/Sam Goody and music icons Mariah Carey, Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand. As president and CEO of The Leverage Group, Richard weaves brands, entertainment and media into mega campaigns.

Here the "Adventures of an Advertising Woman" by Jane Maas including her behind the scene anecdotes on the "I [heart] NY" campaign, Merrill Lynch's "Bullish on America" campaign, Leona Helmsley and more.

As a former creative director at Ogilvy & Mather and Wells, Rich, Greene, Jane has worked on advertising for General Foods, Johnson Wax and American Express.
Tune in Saturday 8-10p.m. CET (2-4p.m. EST) to The Advertising Show for their live webcast. Or check out their commercial free archives.

86 the onions is now looking for photographers around the world to distribute up to 25 Hello-signs each to their neighborhood's homeless and take a picture of each person in their environment holding their oversized nametag, complete with their own handwritten name as part of the Hello project.

We will compile all of the images for an exhibition, website, and a book that will be published, sold, and distributed to relevant press and politicians. Proceeds will go into other projects benefiting the homeless. We encourage you to do the same.

Is there such a thing as bad PR?
Del Galloway, President and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), discusses how public relations is turning into crisis management. Listen up Martha Stewart! In order to be more effective, Del believes PR should be more proactive not reactive by integrating advertising into public relations.
Tune in Saturday 8-10p.m. CET (2-4p.m. EST) to The Advertising Show for their live webcast. Or check out their commercial free archives.

Do you know who Mark Walsh is?

Seems all our iconic advertising characters are retiring to the ad-stage in the sky as of late - Jan Miner who played Madge the manicurist for a whopping 27 years in the Palmolive adverts died last Sunday at the grand age of 86.

The best place to read up on her long stage career as well as ad career is Googobits, where obituaries and essays from google searches are compiled so that we may learn from the dead. Jan Miner and Type king Rob Roy Kelly who revived wood type in the 1970's with his book "American Wood Type 1828-1900: Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types and Comments on Related Trades of the Period" currently grace their front page.

uppdate: I found that the DesignObserver also wrote about Roy Kelly and has a nice shot of his book.

Long before the Big Idea show, The advertising show has been on the AM airwaves, every Saturday 2pm -4pm Eastern time. International adgrunts rejoice, they archive their shows and have a live webcast, as long as you have windows media player installed you can tune in too!
Bigwigs have joined the hosts Brad Forsythe and Ray Schilens at the mike, like Jerry Della Femina, Luke Sullivan, George Lois and Donny Deutsch, to gab about our favorite topic - advertising of course. Now go on, give it a listen. :)

Be appalled, be very appalled at josefandmari.com. Love from Mother London.

Dear fellow mourners,

If you wish to share your sorrow, please visit the book of condolences.

Logo RIP

Logo R.I.P is a commemoration of dead logotypes that have been withdrawn from the landscape, some we miss dearly, others died of old age.

Something for the Art Directors/Designers, logo lovers
and other brand-hags from The Stonetwins in Amsterdam.

Just in time for the holidays the Wurstgallery opens with an exhibition of plastic plates designed by 11 international artists. You can even buy a kit and make you own set, fun for the whole family. ;)

Sweden Graphics, supermundane and Danish street artist Huskmitnavn are some of the artists that have contributed a set, go and watch the whole show at Jason Sturgill's Wurstgallery.

Punk-icon Nina hagen struts her stuff for Ikea in Berlin, dressed up as Pippi Longstocking declaring: "Berlin is the secret Swedish capitol".

Complete with Herr Nilsson (the monkey) on her shoulder the Pippi-Nina is supposed to attract shoppers to the third Ikea store in Berlin which opens this week.