What’s The Deal With Brian Collins?
July 12, 2007
UPDATE: The Brian Collins’ info is just rolling in. Get the real truth about behind his job as VP of design for Apple Computers.
Stop asking us! Alright. Fine. We admit it. We don’t know what the deal is with Brian Collins. For those of you unfamiliar with Mr. Collins, dude spent 9 years leading BIG as it’s Chief Creative Officer under the Ogilvy + Mather banner. The story goes that Collins decided that he wanted to take an “extended” sabbatical to teach kids in China. Gush! How sweet! However, everyone knows that something went down, but what it is…? At least once every other day, we get an email from someone asking us for info or proposing a theory. Here’s one of our faves: “Please find out the scope on BC from BIG leaving. I now (sic) he got fired for being a major prick.”
Anyway, if anyone wants to chime in, create a fake email account at gmail or something and send us the dirt at agencyspy at mediabistro dot com In the mean time, stop sending us emails huh? We’re fricking working on it.
August 2, 2007 at 3:34 pm
[...] executive creative director of it’s Brand Integration Group. Hey industry – meet the new Brian Collins …. Richard Bates, a former senior vice president of creative affairs at Atlantic Records. The [...]
August 23, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I was Brian Collin’s Executive Assistant at BIG a few years ago. I have been waiting for the day for something karmic to happen to him. He treated people like crap, stole designers work and claimed it as his own, lied all the time, and messed up many projects at the last minute. Pretty much everyone that worked with me while I was at BIG, left becuase of him. Very sad!
August 24, 2007 at 3:51 am
This crap is hilarious!
Its funny that you are all so obsessed with finding out about Mr. Brian Collins of Ogilvy’s BIG. You’re like hungry bounty hunters lusting for a kill. If you really want to know whats up with him you should talk to people who have really worked with him closely for several years.
Brian is able to wow clients via graphic design and branding unlike anybody I’ve ever encountered. He can take small problems and turn them into the most successful groundbreaking work ever seen. He puts pure uncut dedication into every project, no matter if it pays millions of dollars or if it’s for a non-profit pro bono project.
Brian has launched the careers of countless designers and has continued to support, mold and evolve there visions long after they have left his presence.
A few people may want to talk bad about Brian but they are not business minded, forward thinking individuals. They are probably artists who haven’t quite figured out where they stand in the larger picture of corporate society and secretly wish they had the vision, charm and communication skills that Brian so unabashedly wields at anyone who dares to engage. I’ve seen Brian convince some of the most conservative and traditional companies to accept innovative and seemlingly risque ideas as there own. And, they’ve paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring the ideas to life, there bank accounts are very thankful they did.
Many designers, artist and creative people don’t want to see past there passions and Brian is able to take the passions of the most quirky and opinionated nonconformists and turn them into living, breathing brand environments.
I would pay him to do that for me, and any no-name company wanting to be somebody would eagerly do the same.
Get your heads out of your asses and observe brilliance when it stands before you, and take note…you may learn something.