Spooner on…so farewell then Tod Norman, one of a kind
“Change has never in history happened as fast as it is happening today; and it will never happen this slowly…
Lovin’ Spoonful
Spooner on…the early retirement of Sir Martin Sorrell
It is with great trepidation, a fluttering heart and trembling knees that I mount the huge curving staircase that leads…
Spooner on…where have all the old creatives gone?
Onward I trudge this bitter morning, knee-deep in the thick snow, stumbling, flailing, striving onward onward towards the cruelly-early-morning locomotive…
Bah humbug Spooner on… this year’s Christmas ads
The rain is lashing against the windows like a punishment here at Montpelier Heights, the classy, new, cosmopolitan nerve-centre of…
Spooner on…JSYK the world of co-creation is well sick
#TotesOMG!!! In a radical departure that has caused consternation within the vast, echoing halls and galleries of the exquisite Palladian…
Spooner on…Xmas, DMA Awards and bah humbug
Merry Xmas to all my readers…Those of you who have had the social misfortune to have worked with me during…
Spooner on…the lessons of a move to Shoreditch
So the fabulous, shiny, new Signal agency (in which I am a small yet not entirely insignificant cog) has moved…
Spooner on…isn’t it time we all upped our game?
Happy Xmas from <insert brand name here>! Is that the faint aroma of rotting pumpkin? Is that the haunting-yet-slightly-nauseating trilling…
Spooner on…let’s fix the TPS for the sake of us all
Ineluctable: unable to be resisted or avoided, from the Latin ineluctabilis; ‘in’ as in ‘not’ and eluctari, to ‘struggle out’…
Spooner on…ad-blocking and the creative malaise
There is no finer source of information, opinion and, indeed, salacious gossip, than this, Charlie McKelvey’s enormously vivacious online organ,…