Barrett Rossie is a fairly new Spin Sucks reader. I don’t remember the very first blog post he commented on, but I do remember he fit in immediately (read: He wasn’t afraid to make fun of me).

Because of my profession, I’ve always been intrigued with the advertising discipline, particularly of some of the great ad men who built the industry from scratch and those who have kept the creativity alive.

Barrett has worked with some of those men, including Dan Wieden and David Kennedy (co-founded Wieden and Kennedy and created the Nike “Just Do It” slogan), Mike Hughes and Harry Jacobs (of The Martin Agency, creators of the GEICO ads, and also who I had the pleasure of working with early in my career), Hal Riney and Jerry Andelin (of Publicis and the brains behind the launch of the Saturn for GM), and Chick McKinney and Michael Winslow (of McKinney known mostly for stealing business under the noses of New York agencies, from North Carolina). (more…)