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11 Creative Directors from around the world gave us their thoughts on three campaigns that would win at Cannes 2015.

I can safely say this has been the hardest issue of Directory to put together ever. That's because we've had an unprecedented mailbag full of great work.

Each issue of Directory gives room to 40 case studies. Our ambition is to tell the story of each idea coherently.

On June 12th, just as the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity was beginning, Julian Koenig died at the age of 93. In 1959, when he was a copywriter at DDB in New York, he wrote 'Think Small' for Volkswagen. He followed that up with 'Lemon'. In 1999, 'Think Small' was judged the best press advertisement of the 20th Century by Ad Age.

In some ways, the third Directory of the year, the September issue, is always the hardest to edit.

As part of our Cannes Considered feature, Directory is pleased to be able to publish the text of Chris Clarke's seminar, which he delivered to a packed audience on the main stage of the festival on Innovation Day.

Directory is delighted to be able to publish one chapter of "Hacker, Maker, Teacher, Thief, Advertising's Next Generation", the third book from Creative Social and available from Amazon from mid-September.

Elvis Presley did innovation in bucket loads of original music for the 20th century, from rockabilly with Sam Philips, to singing loudly.

We put out an email asking creative directors for their Top 5 campaigns of the year, ideas they are sure will win Gold at Cannes in June 2014.

I was talking to some young entrepreneurs the other day about how they should build their companies around their values rather than around their products.

In 1863, the Paris Salon mounted its annual exhibition. What made this particular show infamous was the fact two-thirds of the paintings submitted were deemed not good enough. Among the rejected pictures were works by Édouard Manet, Gustave Courbet and Camille Pissarro, several of them acknowledged today as masterpieces.

My mother was a Jewish mother. Naturally, my Jewish mother, like all Jewish mothers, wanted me to be a doctor, or a lawyer... or as she used to say, "Be something!" I wanted to be a cartoonist. Oy vey, a cartoonist was not on her list...