Smashing read: Sam Delaney captures the spirit of London’s adworld in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Back to the 70s for Life on Mars If you’d arrived from another planet and were hovering above London’s Soho sometime during the mid 1970s, you might have been surprised...

Word upWho’s the daddy? The copywriter or the art director? It’s a battle familiar to anyone who’s worked in an agency environment. Designers are notoriously frustrated by the inability of their writing partners to contain their purple prose and horrified when 50...

If your brand were a person, what would the upshot be?Later this week, I’ll be hosting a workshop for the Chartered Institute of Marketing in London on the ways in which marketing communication is changing. It’s a chance to give professionals in the field an overview...

Manx marketing: Phil Woodford speaks at a meeting in Douglas, Isle of Man last month. The theme was the promotion of the island to investors.How Sir Geoff Hurst scores for Germany in the world of location brandingDavid Ogilvy once observed that “people don’t go half...