Jim Carroll, long serving strategist and former chairman of BBH muses on whether communication should lose its gloss

London buses are big and red. Sometimes they have adverts on. Normally, you don’t notice the adverts (which says quite a lot about our profession). But every now and again, you see a cracker: something that really ‘works’.

Not that long ago Washington DC was awash with rainbow colours and delighted celebrations as the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. A sea-change for America. And a signal for the rest of us, too.

In the endless battle to be heard, it’s rare for a brand to covet silence.

In the last couple of decades the ‘strange wilderness of the subconscious mind’ detailed in Vance Packard’s seminal work.

It must be tough being a Volkswagen sales person right now.

Ronnie Pickering thinks he is well known. He is not. He is your classic small-town, small-minded, small-penised buffoon. We’ve all encountered his sort before: full of trumped-up, untrammelled and unnecessary aggression.

Bringing a new product to market and creating an instant buzz is never an easy task.

Marissa Mayer is in the news again, this time for announcing she will take two weeks off on maternity leave when her twin girls are born

This month, Creative Culture is looking at the success of Citroën, and notably that of the legendary DS.