One of Madison Avenue’s legendary names has shifted its sights to China.
DDB (Doyle Dane Bernbach) in New York is moving its global creative headquarters to Shanghai. While DDB will continue to have offices in New York and elsewhere, it will base its chief creative officer in China. (Susan Krashinsky March 7)
“Move over New York, London, Paris. Hello Shanghai, Mumbai, Singapore” was CEO Chuck Brymer’s comment according to Julia Fuhr from the German trade magazine Horizont. Amir Kassaei who I know to be empathetic and likable pointed out to Campaign Asia, “This is not to say that other regions are losing importance, but it is a clear sign of how we believe the world and the industry will develop over the next few years.”
I have a liking for Amir and his straight forward naiveté by what I know from his digital footprint. He has been toutet German wunderkind and has a remarkable story of his own to tell.
John Zeigler chief digital officer of Tribal DDB also moved to Singapore in January of this year.
Berlin Spreerunde, named after the river Spree, and Isarrunde, named after the river Isar running through my birthplace Munich, are casual talkshows videotaped by mediaworkers from Berlin and Munich on the influence digital development has in our daily lives.
Speculations on what’s next and what will persist as much as sociological and technological aspects are being highlighted in weekly roundtables, most of which take place in the neighborhood cafe at 7 am in the morning.
Here’s an introduction for you to get to know the faces even though recorded in German Language:
Both groups or rounds collaborated in streaming live recordings from Germany’s largest blogger event, the re:publica in Berlin.
While the bottom up approach of Isarrunde may be a favored way to go (with no budget it’s the only way), DLD Women was built top down and resembles a technically less feature rich TED.
It was built around the notion that women are playing an increasingly important role in digital, hence in business and politics, and seem to be better equipped than men in all things transformative (female intuition).
Sir Ken Robinson has previously challenged and delighted us with his vision for changing educational paradigms to better optimize a broken system for creativity.
Open George Stubbs.pdf (via buchhandel.de) in a new window.
Make the knife go with the pencil
I spent a most lovely morning in best company at the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, currently exhibiting British Painter George Stubbs.
I took home a line from George Stubbs as my headline , a few postcards and my favorite shortbread from the museum store.
>You can learn more on Stubbs by selecting the pdf icon above.
However, before you do that, do us all the favor and run the video in the center column.
It will make your day and ruin your life or vice versa.
You wish to stay at the surface, not to get drowned in deep waters, aware that dwelling makes too many peoples lives miserable?
You wish to ressemble the sunny heirs, who make up my friends and enjoy pleasures and eye candy, making you repellant to deeper meaning?
Be carried- even tossed through life like a flat stone cast amongst the water surface? Have no fear of brain injury as so many athletes have to be aware of?.
You want to hold a job at age 85 as does Pope Benedikt XVI (Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger)?
Inochi
Manga blood to quench your thirst
After two decades of restraining myself from indulging in what the art world had to offer caused by a complete lack of interest (besides some concepts Jeff Koons came up with during my time in NCY), art has lost its punch, much like advertising, and I had lost my appetite in living a corporate life.
Art was even more obvious shut down than economy or politics, or should I say turned off, detached or disconnected?
Jerry Saltz explains the discovery of Takashi Murakami within the context of art legacy, by means of the Andy Warhol myth, which is as overrated as any myth waiting to be de-demonized for good and has very little to do with what drives our lives and our economy.
Takashi Murakami lacks a perception of boundaries (between art and commerce). He does what is being valued by businesses as being holistically.
Murakami goes to work with a broad, integrated perspective, necessary to attain the best solution. Something Murakami may have retained from being a child.
The Weekend magazine of German paper, the Süddeutsche Zeitung from April 15, No. 15 offers a chart, making the success factors graspable at first sight.
(c)Murakami is as much an accident as are most global business successes.
Global branding of accidents such as Google, Pinterest and tumblr took less time to develop with even greater momentum, it took ten years of Murakami’s time to become the world’s best investment in art.
In his brilliant video, Ben Lewis introduces a fellowship of young artists such as Masashi Okamoto with Manga blood.
Murakami steals like an artist from the new aesthetic of today’s world culture awaiting its discoverers and further explorers.
(c)Murakami tapestry
What’s with Murakami’s supposedly dark vision?
With dark vision Murakami caters to the expectations of the art industry with its dominating high brow feuilleton, whishing for deep insights and critical viewpoints.
When a museum Kurator sees cotton candy she also sees tooth decay.
Murakami recognizes patterns and turns them around instantly. A well tempered talent not ever hesitent at making instant best use of what is so very obvious. His twitter account is @Takashipom_En. Cabin porn, food porn… you get the idea.
Iconography, Emoticons, symbols available to us all though the system fonts of our computers: ❉❖✽●❀ .
His inability to draw a line between term worlds while having a stable hand with categories, catch phrases and key words, besides being easy going with allowing each pot a matching lid.
Prompt collaboration with proven brands such as Louis Vuitton as well as rising brands such as Kanye West.
The overbearing joy for the contemporary obvious (the underrated dominance of digital athletes and their worlds play a big part in this) has lead to friends of New York’s art collector Adam Lindemann’s kids stand in line to sleep over in the kids room covered with Murakami tapestry.
Help our ad industry be transformative.
Show your ideas that do. Register under 'Log In' and help with your comments and entries shape our industry for the new world. Let's hear what things you do with your ad agency. More info?
About me
I am Mark Sargent, I don't have ideas for advertising, I am advertising ideas. Much like Nicolas Roope, I do things, not advertise things. Your support is welcome:
.
I am Mark Sargent, I don't have ideas for advertising, I am advertising ideas. Much like 
