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Bernbach opened doyle dane bernbach with his two cofounders in 1949. He attended new york city public schools and in 1932 earned a bachelors degree from new york university. Bernbach was born in new york city on august, 1911 to jacob and rebecca bernbach. Bernbach is in fine form in these vintage pair of videos, produced in 1977. Bill bernbach was born august, 1911 to rebecca and jacob bernbach, to most people he is the father of the creative revolution. As a child he enjoyed reading and writing verse and grew up with an appreciation of art. This is the place to find the real story of how one ad agency changed advertising from dull, patronizing, even dishonest to human, accessible, totally authentic and often funny as hell. To understand the importance of his legacy we have, in addition to his works, his brilliant operational intuitions a couple of examples. William bernbach american advertising executive britannica. He was one of the three founders in 1949 of the international advertising agency doyle dane bernbach.
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