John Webster
President's Award Recipient — 1982
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About
John Webster was creative director at Boase Massimi Pollitt, and widely acknowledged as creating some of the UK’s most memorable adverts including Cadbury’s Smash Martians and Sugar Puffs’ Honey Monster. He won an enormous amount of awards over the course of his career, however evidently Webster wasn’t too interested in collecting them – which meant they’d arrive in boxes and be stacked up in the BMP reception. “The people John wanted to impress were not in Cannes – they were in Stoke Newington, Liverpool and Sunderland, on the bus, in the supermarket, in the playground,” wrote Dave Trott in a 2006 obituary in The Independent. “He was a typically eccentric Englishman. He approached multimillion-pound campaigns as if he were tending prize leeks in his allotment.”
About
John Webster was creative director at Boase Massimi Pollitt, and widely acknowledged as creating some of the UK’s most memorable adverts including Cadbury’s Smash Martians and Sugar Puffs’ Honey Monster. He won an enormous amount of awards over the course of his career, however evidently Webster wasn’t too interested in collecting them – which meant they’d arrive in boxes and be stacked up in the BMP reception. “The people John wanted to impress were not in Cannes – they were in Stoke Newington, Liverpool and Sunderland, on the bus, in the supermarket, in the playground,” wrote Dave Trott in a 2006 obituary in The Independent. “He was a typically eccentric Englishman. He approached multimillion-pound campaigns as if he were tending prize leeks in his allotment.”
D&AD achievements
- Participation
- President's Award Recipient — 1982
- Participation
- President's Award Recipient — 1982