Richard Gorodecky is ECD at Amsterdam Worldwide. As a kid, he didn’t seem very disciplined, but today he believes in working really, really hard. His sense of humor is in a big part derived from Douglas Adams’ Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – he read it over and over again. Gorodecky started to develop an interest in advertising when stealing ads from the trains on the London Underground. And one of his most important lessons in advertising is not to be an asshole. Maybe that’s why he is not a big fan of all the dog shit in Amsterdam. Read the entire interview here.
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Interview: Richard Gorodecky
Monday, February 1st, 2010Interview: Erik Kessels
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Erik Kessels is founding partner and ECD at KesselsKramer. When he was a kid he already loved drawing, but he is careful to address this as creative moments. He loves storytelling and among the creative minds that inspire him are: Jim Jarmusch, Marlene Dumas and Helmut Krone. What he enjoyed especially about his first job in advertising at Ogilvy & Mather was working with people from different backgrounds. His favourite client is Hans Brinker Budget Hotel and he loves to shop at Parallaxe – specialized in photography accessories. Click here to read the full interview.
Interview: Wencke van Amstel
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Wencke van Amstel is founding partner and ECD at Pink and Poodle. Though she is a typical Amsterdammer, she grew up and studied in the south of the Netherlands. Apart from dancing on bars and drinking cocktails, Wencke loves to use her creativity in fashion, photography, psychology and advertising. Therefore it’s not much of a surprise she admires a broad party of creative minds; from John Irving to 50 Cent and from Jeff Koons to Maria Callas. And although she picked up some wise lessons from the Scientology Church, Muhammed Ali and Donald Trump, she doesn’t like people who are angry. Click here to read the full interview.
Interview: John Norman
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
John Norman is art director and ECD at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. He grew up in Texas and as a kid his first creative moments were ‘playing war’. Unlike George W. Bush, John got over it and nowadays he is fascinated by design and nano science. Apart from that, he is inspired by Michelangelo’s stubbornness for his own believes and by Terrence Malick for the sparseness of his dialog. John moved to Amsterdam after following up Jelly Helm’s advice to check out the city. And now he loves it so much that he wouldn’t change a thing about it, if he had the chance. Outside work, John loves racing bikes and is a sucker for a field full of bunnies. To read the entire interview, click here.
Interview: Andy Fackrell
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Andy Fackrell has worked for 180 Amsterdam since 2003. He also worked in Wellington, Singapore and Portland, but his love for the Dutch ‘krentenbollen’ keeps him here. We could call him a specialist in sports advertising, since he worked most of his career for Nike and Adidas. Funny is not his thing; he likes the element of art in advertising. Andy is clearly fond of talking about advertising and, as a true creative, his mind jumps quickly and associatively from subject to subject. Enthusiastically he shares his love for Napoleonic battle scenes, Anthony Gormley’s plinth in Trafalgar Square, Aha’s ‘Take on Me’, Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘The Sirens Of Titan’, Bill Murray in Groundhog Day and that ‘little one lane bridge at Ouderkerk’ – among many other things. To get the full picture, you can enjoy the entire interview here.
Interview: Colin Lamberton
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Together with our new visual identity, we’ve added a new section to Amsterdam Ad Blog; Interviews. And we are very happy that Colin Lamberton, art director and ECD at Grey Amsterdam, is the first Amsterdam creative to answer our 9 questions about creativity, advertising and Amsterdam. So if you want to know what Colin Lamberton says about Betamax, Booty videos, Post-war Modernism, Kraftwork, Lowe Howard Spink, Eric Cantona and Artis Zoo, then click here to read the full interview.