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Hitting The Fan: Clever Teasers For Al Gore's Day Of Climate Reality

In preparation for the 24-hour marathon of climate change presentations, the Climate Reality Project has prepared a few short videos to amusingly communicate how dire the situation is.READ»

Alex Bogusky: Avoiding Crisis By Taking A Turn At Midlife's Crossroads

Alex, his wife Anna and friends Rob Schuham and John Bielenberg have launched a new social entrepreneurship platform called COMMON that is part incubator and part creative community that enables collaboration to find better solutions to pressing social problems. READ»

Photo Issue 2010: Alex Bogusky Fades Away, Shot by Mike Piscitelli

The shot by Mike Piscitelli that ran in the magazine was prescient. Bogusky quit the advertising industry shortly after the shot was taken, kicking off a firestorm of buzz and panic.READ»

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Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign?READ»

Alex Bogusky Tells Fast Company He's Never Going Back to Advertising: Meet the New Gang at Crispin Porter

Alex Bogusky tells us he's done with advertising for good. The big question for Crispin now is how well its 1,000 employees will do now that their old leader--a solo pop superstar--has been replaced by a big band. Let's meet the members of that band.READ»

How Much Is Bogusky Worth to MDC?

MDC's CEO says Crispin Porter +Bogusky is worth less to his company than analysts would have us believe.READ»

Why MDC Will Never Love an Ad Man Like It Loved Alex Bogusky

The inside story of how a "life contract" between MDC Chief Miles Nadal and his rock star Chief Creative Insurgent soured.READ»

Insiders Dish on What's Ahead for Crispin, Porter + Bogusky Without Alex Bogusky

The so-called Ad Jesus announced yesterday that he'd quit the biz he so heavily influenced. What's that mean for the powerhouse "ad agency of the decade" that traded on his name?READ»

Alex Bogusky, Advertising's Elvis, Tells Fast Company Why He Quit MDC and the Ad Biz

“Miles [Nadal, CEO of MDC] started getting phone calls from some clients that didn’t like things that I had said,” Bogusky tells Fast Company exclusively.READ»

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Alex Bogusky's Simple Message for Climate Change: Pollution Sucks

Creative Jesus-figure Alex Bogusky, co-chairman of Crispin Porter + Bogusky and the man behind Denver's B-cycle bike sharing program, has come up with a simple way to make the world understand the seriousness of climate change. Rather ...READ»

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Stop Learning From Your Failures, It Creates a Culture of Fear

It's become a classic business mantra: you learn more from your failures than from your successes. But what if that idea is all wrong? Alex Bogusky, co-chairman of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, believes it is--and recent MIT research ...READ»

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Alex Bogusky's Bike-Sharing Baby, B-cycle, Launches in Denver

The country's first large-scale bike-sharing program debuts in the Mile High City.READ»

An Open Letter to MDC Chief Creative Insurgent Alex Bogusky's Mom

We've got a lot in common: We're both big fans of her son, the founder of Crispin Porter + Bogusky. And we both love to read Fast Company.READ»

He's Conquered Burger King and Microsoft, but Can CP+B's Alex Bogusky Oversee 32 Agencies?

Ad powerhouse CP+B announces a new relationship with its parent company, MDC Partners, with a new role for Alex Bogusky as creative head of MDC's mini-empire.READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in Marketing and Advertising

1. Alex Bogusky, Co-Chairman, Crispin Porter + Bogusky He shattered the rules of 20th century advertising with campaigns that resemble multi-media hijinks, rather than commercials. Brands like Burger King, Old Navy, and ...READ»

Lemon Head: A Q&A With CP+B's New Director of Design Kevin Grady

While working as a creative director at Arnold Worldwide in Boston, Kevin Grady landed a choice account as the original design director on the Truth anti-smoking campaign, propelling him to fame. His "Singing Cowboy" ...READ»

Alex Bogusky is Doing Buell Wheelies

Regardless of whatever Alex Bogusky says about "relinquishing the creative reigns" at Crispin Porter + Bogusky now that he's chairman, you can bet the Evil Knievel-obsessed Bogusky will be micromanaging Crispin's ...READ»

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Alex Bogusky Isn't Jesus After All

As marketers slash their ad 2009 budgets and Madison Avenue continues to purge talent (3,000 at Omnicom alone), it turns out that even agencies at the top of their game are proving vulnerable. Back in June I chronicled the diefied ...READ»

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Career Advice from Jeff Hicks and Alex Bogusky, Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Jeff Hicks has been in advertising for over twenty years. He became CEO of Crispin Porter + Bogusky in 2004. Alex Bogusky joined Crispin Porter in 1987. He became a partner at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in 1996, and then Co-Chairman in February 2008.READ»