American - Artist | June 26, 1931 -
Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.
George Lois
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With the way I worked, a client can give me everything they know about something, and then I go away and come back with advertising that knocks them out of their chair. They finally understand what kind of a company they are.
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You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.
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My concern has always been with creating images that catch people's eyes, penetrate their minds, warm their hearts and cause them to act.
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People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper.
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The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'
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What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy.
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You don't create a magazine for your readers. You don't take a poll, you know, like the politicians do, and find out what they're thinking and what they want... You're supposed to be telling people what the hell you think is exciting and dynamic and thought-provoking, and do it - and do it your way.
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'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'
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It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
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If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.
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When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.
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