David Kolbusz, Droga5 London

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06/07/21 • 46 min

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On this bonus episode, we chat with David Kolbusz, chief creative officer of Droga5 London, who’s brought a consistency and level of creative excellence to the agency’s U.K. operation that was missing before. We dig into some of David’s celebrated work across his career—with stops at Mother, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, BBH and Wieden + Kennedy—and how his time at W+K and Droga, in particular, has increasingly been defined by making ads that don’t look like ads at all.

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