Thank you for all the Don Draper entries so far. They are very entertaining.
We’ve decided to extend the deadline till Monday at 18.00 so if you’re yet to enter and fancy a placement at BMB have a think over the weekend.
If you need some stimulus have a look at this.
We’ll be announcing the winner of the placement mid next week.
Good luck!
PS. The placement will be from Monday 9th September to 4th October.
Out of all the books we rounded up for our site beforetheywerefamous.org, there was one Creative Director whose portfolio we just couldn’t track down, no matter how hard we looked.
But it did get us thinking about the kind of campaigns he might have had in it.
So, we’re setting a brief to all up and coming creative teams around the world:
Write a spec campaign that you imagine could have been in Don Draper’s first ever portfolio.
The work will be judged by Jon Hamm himself*
The best campaigns will be forever enshrined within Don Draper’s portfolio (along with links to the creative teams’ own portfolios), but the best campaign overall will also win a months placement at BMB London for the creative/creative team who wrote it.
If you’d like to enter, please send scamps or designs to Nathalie.Turton@bmbagency.com by Friday 30th August 2013.
*The 4 week placement will be from 9th September to 4th October 2013
* This may well be fictional
About six hundred years ago, Nat and I thought that it would be interesting to see the first student scamps of advertising’s most brilliant creatives.
A bit like how people love watching old clips of hollywood actors in their school plays.
It’s always encouraging to see that everyone starts somewhere.
Almost a year since we started work on it, we are finally ‘launching’ it today. Hope you enjoy looking at all the work. It certainly made us laugh a lot.
Thank you so much to all the creatives that have waded through moth balls in attics and dug deep in their parents’ sheds to forage for their work. Without you there would be no site.
And thank you to all the other people who have helped us get this off the ground. Paul and Daryll especially, Debbie and Kate. Maggie Souter from Central Saint Martins, Tony Cullingham from Watford, and Paul Springer from Bucks, who have all helped track down the work of their most illustrious alumni.
We would love the site to keep evolving. So if you’re a creative that’s been round the block a few times, and you have your old book knocking about, please email it to nathalie.turton@bmbagency.com.
So what’s next after #MyFirstFolio?
Maybe #MyFirstFilm – a chance to watch the first steps into celluloid of Ringan and other world famous directors?
Or #MyFirstSnaps – a chance to see Rankin’s first ever photographs, if they still exist in an attic somewhere.
Anyone want to help make that?
LORELEI MATHIAS 