Category Minneapolis Advertising

Ron Anderson and a new generation of ad creatives

Meet some of Ron Anderson’s “kids”

I found this captionless photo on page 3 of an 8-page newspaper titled Amazing Ad World News published on December 19, 2000 in Minneapolis. So I shared it with the Bozell Alumni Group on LinkedIn and asked, “Do you recognize anyone?” Thank you, Steve Centrillo, Jim Courtright, Gayle Dieck, Mike Gustafson, and Kurt Tausche for […]

Ron Anderson hires Tom McElligott

Quite possibly the most understated moment in the history of modern day advertising

After my formal education at the University of Wichita, newly married, degree in hand, I had to decide where to ply my trade. The obvious answer was New York City. After all, it was 1961—the creative revolution was in full steam. I was already doing my postgraduate work, in a sense, by correspondence. Every year […]

Ron Anderson moved to Minneapolis in 1962

Meet Ron Anderson

In 1962, Ron Anderson moved from Kansas to Minneapolis. The rest, as they say, is history.