“The truth isn’t the truth until people believe you, and they can’t believe you if they

don‘t know what you’re saying, and they can’t know what you are saying if they don’t listen to you, and they won’t listen to you if you’re not interesting, and you won’t be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.”

No, Doug Blanchard didn’t say that. Bill Bernbach did.

Doug, however, has used his beyond considerable talent over the years to create work that lives up to what Mr. B. laid out, as arguably, THE reality of our business.

Waxing advertising philosophic is easy to do when highly recommending Doug. I’ve known and respected him since his J. Walter days. More recently, we’ve worked on quite a few things together. Doug is an incredible talent with a high-wattage brain that is wired in a very interesting manner. Not only is he a great CD/art director, but he’s also a damn good writer, too. Some say this advertising ambidexterity is the result of his hitting his head as a child. Others say it’s the result of a lightning strike that Doug can’t remember. (Cut to Doug coming to and saying out loud to himself: That was some wrap party!)

I disagree, though.  

To know Doug Blanchard, is to simply know that there isn’t anything he won’t do to get to the right selling solution and execute it with aplomb in a fresh and interesting way. His craft knows no bounds and neither does his thinking. Doug is a big thinker. And he’s a big doer. You should be so fortunate to work with him. I was.

Kevin Teevens

EVP, SVP, VP, ECD, CD, ACD, CW, JR CW