Colin Millward
President's Award Recipient — 1976
Profile
About
Colin Millward began his ad industry career in the 50s, working at Colman Prentice & Varley before joining Collett Dickenson Pearce as a creative director, in 1960. He’s credited with helping to galvanise a new kind of “well-crafted and gently humorous advertising”, as Campaign has described it, as well as coming up with the idea of using Bach’s Air on a G String for Hamlet. In 1976 he received the inaugural President’s Award from D&AD, although Millward sadly left the ad industry the following year. “He taught us how to see, think and try harder,” said director Sir Alan Parker in a 2004 obituary published in Campaign. “His standards were higher than anyone’s in advertising before or since.
About
Colin Millward began his ad industry career in the 50s, working at Colman Prentice & Varley before joining Collett Dickenson Pearce as a creative director, in 1960. He’s credited with helping to galvanise a new kind of “well-crafted and gently humorous advertising”, as Campaign has described it, as well as coming up with the idea of using Bach’s Air on a G String for Hamlet. In 1976 he received the inaugural President’s Award from D&AD, although Millward sadly left the ad industry the following year. “He taught us how to see, think and try harder,” said director Sir Alan Parker in a 2004 obituary published in Campaign. “His standards were higher than anyone’s in advertising before or since.
D&AD achievements
- Participation
- President's Award Recipient — 1976
- Participation
- President's Award Recipient — 1976