{"id":10773,"date":"2017-10-30T20:19:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T00:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10773"},"modified":"2017-10-30T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T00:22:33","slug":"episode-242-george-lois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-242-george-lois","title":{"rendered":"Episode 242 – George Lois"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 242: George Lois<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Everybody working today asks me, ‘How did you get away with THAT?’ I tell ’em, ‘Same way you could: if you had balls.’ And talent.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a> Legendary ad-man George Lois<\/a> joins the show to talk about 50+ years of shaping American culture and to give us some Damn Good Advice<\/a>\"\". We start out with the day he quit his life as the Greek florist’s son, began art school, and met the love of his life (all in the same day), before getting to the most prolific period in his monumental career, his experience as one of the first “ethnics” in the ad business, what goes into having The Big Idea, how he and Muhammad Ali busted each other’s chops, how he created the ad that created Tommy Hilfiger, making those Esquire<\/em> covers<\/a>, getting fired off the Xerox account three times before making Xerox a household word, what he wants to do next (at 86), and more!\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a>\u00a0[NOTE: This one’s got some N-bombs in it, but not in a derogatory way. If use of that word offends you, don’t listen to this episode.]<\/em><\/p>\n

“He said, ‘You like slogans? But that’s so old-fashioned!’ I said, ‘Phil, f***ing is old-fashioned, but it works!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n