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How to Make It as an Advertising Creative

 

 

 

How to Make It as an Advertising Creative
Simon Veksner

Paperback
80 illustrations
160 pages
230 x 190 mm
ISBN 978 1 85669 657 9
17.95
Published May 2010

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Contents

Chapter 1: Do you have what it takes to be an advertising creative?
Chapter 2: How to get a job
Interview with Jeremy Craigen (executive director, DDB London, England)
Chapter 3: Where to get a Job
Interview with Flo Heiss (creative director, Dare, England)
Chapter 4: How to work in a team
Interview with Simon Reynolds (founder, The Photon Group, Australia)
Chapter 5: How to sell your work
Interview with Jeff Benjamin (interactive executive creative director, Crispin + Porter + Bogusky, USA)
Chapter 6: How to get the best out of the people you work with
Chapter 7: Managing your career
Chapter 8: The Intangible aspects of success
Chapter 9: The differing career paths of art directors and copywriters
Chapter 10: Becoming a creative director
Interview with Amir Kassaei (chief creative officer, DDB Germany)
Chapter 11: Starting your own agency
Interview with Paul Silburn (executive creative director Saatchi & Saatchi, England)
Chapter 12: Getting out

 

 

This book is aimed at anyone who is considering becoming an advertising Creative, studying to become one, or would like to become a better one.
    Written in an entertaining and informative style, the book explains the diverse set of skills that you need to make it as an advertising Creative above-and-beyond the ability to write good adverts, and demonstrates: how to get the best out of the people you work with; how to present your work to clients; how to manage your career; even how to start your own agency.
    Getting a job as an advertising Creative is not easy. This book will teach you the intangible skills that are essential if you are to get a job, survive, thrive and ultimately make it big in one of the most exciting industries on the planet.


Simon Veksner is a copywriter at Bartle Bogle Hegarty in London, where he has produced campaigns for some of the agency’s most iconic brands including Levi’s, Audi and Barnardo’s. Previously he spent seven years at DDB London, where his work included a Cannes Grand Prix-winning ad for Volkswagen. He has won over 50 industry awards in his 16 years as a Creative, and is a frequent D&AD juror. Prior to entering advertising he worked as a journalist, for publications including The Independent, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.

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