An invisible problem

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...

Being a judge at an award show is easy. You get to hang out with loads of fellow creatives and have fun looking at, and discussing, loads of work, some of which is rubbish and some of which you magnanimously award metal to.

“No, No, No, No, No, Yes” is not just the title of Gideon Amichay’s new book, which was published on January 24th 2014, it is also the name of his new company.

When you have five spare minutes today, try opening up these two YouTube videos and get them playing side by side.

The 2013 rankings are compiled from 8,004 awards for 4,780 separate pieces of work won by 1,317 agencies around the world, including.

Welcome dear reader to the latest issue of Directory

In 1994 I ran my first e-marketing seminar, including some guest speakers from different organisations. Little did I realise at the time how indicative it was of the industry that was to evolve to the ‘digital marketing’ one we know today.

The Caples Awards were founded in 1977 by the late, great Andi Emerson.

About a year ago I had lunch with the splendid Steve Henry. He recalled an evening spent sitting in the offices of HHCL in 1994 waiting for the advertising campaign to break for Ronseal Quick Drying Woodstain.