Never put an art director with a stunt man

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hipster+ramones.jpgBy Simon Veksner, ex-Head of Ideas, Naked Communications

Darren Bailes, ECD of British ad agency VCCP, has written an article for the UK’s Campaign magazine in which he proposes that “This year should be the year of ‘hiring the random’. How great would it be to hire a scientist and put them with a copywriter?” he says, adding “Or a stuntman.”

I’ll tell you how great it would be, Darren. Not great at all. In fact it would be shite. READ ON…