Bill Bernbach: "Beneath the technique what do you find? Sameness, mental weariness & mediocrity"

It's impossible to pick a single quote from this incredible letter from Bill Bernbach written in 1947. For those who don't know their Mad Men, Bernbach was Chairman of DDB and responsible for Volkswagen's Think Small . We Try Harder for Avis and It's so simple for Polaroid.

Bill Bernbach "Look beneath the technique and what did you find? A sameness, a mental weariness, a mediocrity of ideas. "

Every sentence in the letter deserves its own post. So you're just going to have to read the whole damn lot yourself... that is, if you're interested enough and your attention span hasn't yet been completely denuded by social media.

Here's a few topic headings:

• Big agencies lose their creativity

• Advertising is an art, not a science

• Advertising is becoming a rational, scientific technique

• Which leads to sameness / banality

• And plenty more besides...

Here's the Letter:

See the full article here from MM&M.