What a fine morning it was when Mark Denton - designer, advertising creative, opportunist, fashion designer, eccentric, President of The Creative Circle, I must stop now or this sentence will never end – spoke to a roomful of attentive, croissant munching Republicans. Mark has had a salubrious career to date. It all began when he was a young boy and spotted a comic strip in an Eagle Careers Annual entitled “I Want to be a Commercial Artist!”
So as he grew he drew and drew, and then he designed things, and then he had some ideas for some adverts, then he set up his own advertising agency which became famous and successful, and then he won lots of awards, then he got fired and made some more work, and then he founded his own design agency. And along the way he created work for clients such as Nike, Heineken, Levis and Wrangler. Mark also taught us some of his philosophies:
- He makes sure he only does the work that he wants to.
- He’s pretty sure that every silly idea can be made into something great one day.
- And he reckons the nation is crammed with people who want to do things for you for free. We like his style.
There’s no doubt Mark inspired us all by revealing his inspirations and the method that sprouts from his madness. Great thanks.
Here's the vid, pretty much unedited so it's a long one.....
