Articles tagged with: Photography
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When I begun in advertising, I had the luck to team with a veteran Art Director.
Walter was in his 60’s back then, I was in my early 20’s.
The man had a vision like I never saw again, probably because it is becoming more and more difficult to find art directors older than 50’s in the agencies nowadays – which is terrible, I think.
Walter knew so much that sometimes, he went mad with the guys who only learned from the digital school.
“These photographers think that they don’t need to set a …
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Finding a Job, or Vice Versa, Industry »
Every day I get a pile of postcards, polylopes, booklets and packages from photographers and illustrators. I have no idea who most of them are. The pieces are usually covered in interesting images of old ladies that are losing the plot, dogs in costumes, preppy street scenes full of dramatic poses, or a million beautiful images of water. Judging by the ‘personalization’ on the address label, it’s anything but personal and has been fired off to 1000 Creative Directors just like me. There are some great images in here, but …

