Creative Vengeance

Gabriel Mattar and Ricardo Wolff have been a creative couple for most of their careers. They worked for agencies like Almap BBDO, DDB, BBDO Berlin and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in the past. In 2018, they joined INNOCEAN BERLIN as European CCO and ECD. We talked about Brazilian advertising, German efficiency, and how to put an unknown agency on the creative radar.

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Stefan Clauss is a co-founder and CEO of Heimplanet. He quit his job in advertising to challenge the outdoor industry with a revolutionary tent. We talked about the struggles of building a brand and growing up. Heimplanet was featured on WIRED and is listed at the MoMA Design Store.

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Alice Bottaro is an award-winning creative director, copywriter, and co-founder of SheSays Berlin. After studying anthropology, she accidentally got into advertising. We talked about the Wi-Fi dogs she invented, the story of Bertha Benz, and what kind of environments support exceptional ideas.

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Dave Hause is an American Singer-Songwriter. His childhood dream came true, and he can make a living as a musician. Maybe that’s the reason why his view of the world seems so relaxed. We met at one of his concerts in a church in Berlin to talk about songwriting, his relationship to social media, and how his latest album changed an episode ending of the TV show Billions.

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Axel Quack is a strategic innovator and has worked for companies like Publicis, frog, and Allianz. He is passionate about building accelerators and innovation departments, focusing on new products and their business models.

Axel sucked at school, but he now holds an impressive number of degrees, including a Master of Fine Arts and an Executive MBA. He lectured at Google’s Digital Academy, is on the Advisory Board of the Pi School for AI in Rome, and part of the Singularity University in Silicon Valley.

We talked about Axel’s career of constantly reinventing himself, and he explained what work looks like behind all the fancy titles and shiny processes that represent his industry.

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Justin Gignac is an artist, speaker, and co-founder of Working Not Working. His art project NYC Garbage spread around the globe. He is very passionate about helping other creatives and hosts his own podcast Overshare. We talked about the struggles of working in the creative industry and how to focus on what’s important.

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Yifei Chai works as an ECD at UNIT9, which was recently named Ad Age Production Company of the Year. In his work, Yifei finds beautiful ways to connect the digital world and the real world. We met at his office in London to discuss a wide range of topics. Quite a few of them have fancy acronyms like AI, AR, VR, QR, EDR, UX, CX – you name it. A fun conversation and reunion after a shared adventure in the snow.

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Johan Kramer co-founded the communications agency KesselsKramer in 1995 and moved on to become a full-time director in 2004. At the 20th anniversary of Heimat, we sat down to talk about his career. Johan failed as a football player. He could not get a job in advertising. And he was fired for having too much fun in London. Still, he became an icon of advertising eventually.

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Ivan Cash is an award-winning interactive artist, film director, speaker, and founder of Cash Studios. We met in his apartment to talk about his career of sparking cultural conversations, celebrating human connections, and inspiring strangers to interact.

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Rich Silverstein is one of the co-founders of Goodby, Silverstein and Partners. We met at his office and talked about advertising, politics, and how he managed to stay in the business for so many decades.

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