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- Bill Bernbach
- transformed
- advertising the world
- over. A copywriter, he
- was a founder of Doyle
- Dane Bernbach, one of
- the great American
- agencies. Before the
- revolution he led in the
- Sixties, advertising was
- loud, raucous, hard sell.
- He made it low-key,
- ironic, endearing. He
- tore up the rule book,
- laying stress on
- creativity, intelligence and originality. He persuaded Avis
- to capitalise on not being the biggest, a most un-American
- concept. "When you're only number 2, you try harder. Or
- else." His Volkswagen campaign is still considered by many
- advertising men to be the best ever. He forsook lush
- settings, beautiful models and hype copy for a black-and-
- white picture of an unadorned VW Beetle titled "Think
- Small". Status-conscious Americans loved the
- advertisements - the ugly little vehicle was suddenly chic.
- Bernbach started the art director/copywriter team
- concept, now the norm, and he introduced photography as
- a vital ingredient. A passionate believer in the
- responsibilities of advertising, he refused to let his agency
- take tobacco accounts. He would not even allow the use of
- chess star Bobby Fischer in an ad: "I think it's wrong to
- work with someone so selfish and ill-mannered". His
- genius lay in proving you could have good taste, good art,
- good writing dedicated to good selling
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