28 Feb 1997
| by TREVOR BEATTIE
As some of you may already know, I ve spent the last 21 of your
earth days in something of a tabloidic two-and-eight. And of all the
advice I ve been given over this period, the most oft repeated and
strangest so far has been: Make sure you re eating properly, won t
you? . This, I hasten to add, coming...
21 May 1999
| by TREVOR BEATTIE
. If perfection
is from Mars, then elitism is a product of Uranus. I await my fatwah.
Peace.
Trevor Beattie is the creative director of TBWA GGT Simons Palmer.
...
31 Oct 1997
| by TREVOR BEATTIE
be wearing THAT dress and she
won t be going home at midnight.
Trevor Beattie is creative director ...
17 May 1996
| by TREVOR BEATTIE
.
Trevor Beattie is the creative director of TBWA
Club Med
Project: Club Med
Client: Henri de ...
01 Nov 1996
| by TREVOR BEATTIE
...brown.
Ahhh Bisto. Oh. Julie Walters. Why is Julie Walters?
Trevor Beattie is the creative director ...
09 Jan 1998
| by TREVOR BEATTIE
New Year s Eve. Bloody rubbish isn t it? In order to discover why,
I recently conducted an experiment under laboratory-controlled
conditions.
09 Aug 1996
| by TREVOR BEATTIE
Rome, 1960. A gangling 18-year-old wins gold at the Olympic Games. Days
later he flies home in triumph and, medal still hanging round his neck,
marches into his local restaurant to order a steak.
01 Mar 1996
| by TREVOR BEATTIE
What does it feel like in the new Club World tilting cradle seat...?
Well, funny you should ask me that, Bernard, because by some spooky
twist of advertising fate, I am at this very moment writing this very
column in that very seat in the lump on top of a British Airways jumbo,
45,000 feet above the...
25 Aug 2000
| by TREVOR BEATTIE, the creative director a
TREVOR BEATTIE...TREVOR BEATTIE
I met a girl the other day who wasn t pregnant. Weirder still, she
didn t have a pierced belly-button, a Palm Pilot, a bag strap stretched
diagonally across her chest, a bottle of (still or sparkling) mineral
water or a wheat allergy. She wasn t slurping a tall, skinny ...
01 Oct 1999
| by JENNY WATTS
TREVOR BEATTIE...TREVOR BEATTIE
CREATIVE DIRECTOR TBWA
To argue creativity versus hard sell is to miss the point. The real
issue is why the mightiest bulk of advertising out there falls under the
category mediocre.
Why do I see no lengthy diatribes about the appalling dominance of
mediocrity ...