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PODCAST: Mark Reddy.
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Manage episode 185583237 series 1523603
‘Art Director’ is an unhelpful title.
It has nothing to do with Art and very little to do with directing.
Some think it’s about making stuff look cool, I think it’s about communicating at speed.
We work in a medium people are actively trying to ignore, so we can’t hang around.
Art Director’s can only communicate quickly if the understand:
a) Their basic toolkit; photography, film, illustration, editing, cropping, fonts, colours and the rest.
b) The world around them: how humans behave, the meaning of gestures, what’s fashionable, what’s unfashionable, the difference between someone looking excited and crazed, whether to it’s funnier to cast the tall skinny guy or the short fat guy, whether it would be more dramatic to fill the frame with sea and have a thin strip of sky or vice-versa?
I don’t know an Art Director who understands both better than Mark Reddy.
https://davedye.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DAVE-DYEMARK-REDDY-FINAL.mp3
LONDON ADVERTISING PARTNERSHIP/COLMAN’S.
CAMPING GAZ.
McDONALDS.
BRITISH AIRWAYS.
‘HONEST DECENT AND TRUE’.Above, a Saatchi’s era Mark sitting next to Ade Edmonson in the mid-eighties.
Well, Richard E. Grant playing Mark in ‘Honest, Decent and True’ after tagging along with Mark for a month.
He stole his kimono, broach and demeanour.
You can see the full programme below.
THE COI.
Part of a presentation for a road safety campaign, printed on a strip of tarmac, it’s about 3ft by 2ft, and is one of twenty, Saatchi’s didn’t do things by halves in the eighties.
SILK CUT.
Ideas for a tv ad from Mark’s notebooks.
Storyboard for Silk Cut tv ad developed with legendary photographer and director Brian Duffy.
HOLMES KNIGHT RITCHIE.
HARVEY’S BRISTOL CREAM.
CHEF’S BEANS.
DOYLE DANE BERNBACH.
TREBOR.
VOLKSWAGEN.
(Alternate, rejected picture.)
TATE GALLERY.
Ex and current DDB-ers say goodbye to their home of 25 years, Baker Street, as they head for Paddington and a merger with BMP. (Mark is at the front, dead centre.)
BMP. (REEVES ROBERTSHAW/DAVIDSON PEARCE/DOYLE DANE BERNBACH/NEEDHAM)
MICROSOFT.
LABOUR.
ABELOUR.
SCOTRAIL.
(ScotRail outtakes.)
HELLMANN’S.
TAYLOR’S PORT.
AYER. (Previously Leagas Davis Shafron Chick)
AQUA LIBRE.
CREATIVE CIRCLE.
THE RIP-OFF AWARDS.
ILLUSTRATOR/TIN BASHER.
THE MILLENIUM DUDE.
OXFAM.
Rejected idea for Barnado’s logo.
AUDI.
ROBINSON’S.
WOLSEY.
21 episodes
Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on August 22, 2019 02:44 (). Last successful fetch was on May 05, 2019 01:27 ()
Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.
What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.
Manage episode 185583237 series 1523603
‘Art Director’ is an unhelpful title.
It has nothing to do with Art and very little to do with directing.
Some think it’s about making stuff look cool, I think it’s about communicating at speed.
We work in a medium people are actively trying to ignore, so we can’t hang around.
Art Director’s can only communicate quickly if the understand:
a) Their basic toolkit; photography, film, illustration, editing, cropping, fonts, colours and the rest.
b) The world around them: how humans behave, the meaning of gestures, what’s fashionable, what’s unfashionable, the difference between someone looking excited and crazed, whether to it’s funnier to cast the tall skinny guy or the short fat guy, whether it would be more dramatic to fill the frame with sea and have a thin strip of sky or vice-versa?
I don’t know an Art Director who understands both better than Mark Reddy.
https://davedye.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DAVE-DYEMARK-REDDY-FINAL.mp3
LONDON ADVERTISING PARTNERSHIP/COLMAN’S.
CAMPING GAZ.
McDONALDS.
BRITISH AIRWAYS.
‘HONEST DECENT AND TRUE’.Above, a Saatchi’s era Mark sitting next to Ade Edmonson in the mid-eighties.
Well, Richard E. Grant playing Mark in ‘Honest, Decent and True’ after tagging along with Mark for a month.
He stole his kimono, broach and demeanour.
You can see the full programme below.
THE COI.
Part of a presentation for a road safety campaign, printed on a strip of tarmac, it’s about 3ft by 2ft, and is one of twenty, Saatchi’s didn’t do things by halves in the eighties.
SILK CUT.
Ideas for a tv ad from Mark’s notebooks.
Storyboard for Silk Cut tv ad developed with legendary photographer and director Brian Duffy.
HOLMES KNIGHT RITCHIE.
HARVEY’S BRISTOL CREAM.
CHEF’S BEANS.
DOYLE DANE BERNBACH.
TREBOR.
VOLKSWAGEN.
(Alternate, rejected picture.)
TATE GALLERY.
Ex and current DDB-ers say goodbye to their home of 25 years, Baker Street, as they head for Paddington and a merger with BMP. (Mark is at the front, dead centre.)
BMP. (REEVES ROBERTSHAW/DAVIDSON PEARCE/DOYLE DANE BERNBACH/NEEDHAM)
MICROSOFT.
LABOUR.
ABELOUR.
SCOTRAIL.
(ScotRail outtakes.)
HELLMANN’S.
TAYLOR’S PORT.
AYER. (Previously Leagas Davis Shafron Chick)
AQUA LIBRE.
CREATIVE CIRCLE.
THE RIP-OFF AWARDS.
ILLUSTRATOR/TIN BASHER.
THE MILLENIUM DUDE.
OXFAM.
Rejected idea for Barnado’s logo.
AUDI.
ROBINSON’S.
WOLSEY.
21 episodes
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