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My favorite part is all the amazing clients and the stuff they allow us to do for them. The hardest part is what they don't let us do for them.
Gustav Martner Partner, Executive Creative Director CP+B Europe Gustav is a digital re-inventor, media agnostic, creative and skinny Swede in tight jeans, who co-founded Daddy with five friends at the turn of the millennium. In the decade to follow, Daddy expanded whilst maintaining its presence in Sweden’s top echelon of digital agencies - bringing home numerous international awards for clients like ABSOLUT VODKA, Carlsberg, Scandinavian Airlines and TeliaSonera among others. In 2009, the US based creative powerhouse CP+B acquired Daddy, turning them into the foundation for their European operations. This exciting venture demands quite a lot of Gustav’s attention these days, but he still finds time to play with his punk band Bom Bom, practice the musical saw and hang out with his wife and kids. They also wear tight jeans.
Talk with colleagues and clients. That’s a pretty boring answer I guess, but I don't need much stimulation. Before the internet, I suppose you had to fly around the world to get inspired. Today you just read a few blog posts and get pretty much the same effect. And no jet lag.
50-60 hours. But a few of those are telephone conferences where I do laundry or xxxx at the same time.
I feel pretty relaxed most of the time but I don't mind having a beer and reading a book.
I would be the real world's Dr. Snuggles
My favorite part is all the amazing clients and the stuff they allow us to do for them. The hardest part is what they don't let us do for them.
Working two days without sleep happens every now and then. The worst time was when I was a programmer, got some serious bugs at the last minute before shipping and didn't sleep for two days in order to solve it. Then I drove directly from Gothenburg to the Swedish east coast to deliver the CD-ROM. Terrible. At that time there was no broadband to deliver these things. Thank god we have broadband these days....
I survive surprisingly easy with just a browser these days. Doodle Jump has saved our family many times though. It is the ultimate distraction tool for grumpy kids.
Well, we are one thousand people working very integrated in four offices. In the Gothenburg factory, we most likely have around 30-40 projects going at any given time. Hundreds in total within CP+B. I guess I'm involved in many of them.
I guess I have to say banners, It has always amazed me how little effort is put into that in general. The potential is huge.
That is how we work.
Hard to say. Mobile is here to stay and right now Flash kind of sucks for mobile. I'm guessing that will be solved soon.
Be enthusiastic. Come up with creative concepts as early as possible. Work more than everybody else, and not just spending hours at the office. Real work.
I like videoconferencing. It saves time and the environment. I already travel too much for my own liking.
Having great colleagues helps a lot. To sit in awards show juries has also been very valuable.
That depends on what kind of innovation you're talking about. Technical innovation? Well, Sweden is not so bad. If you're talking about innovation in terms of what a country is doing now compared to what they were doing previously, then some emerging markets like Turkey are really exiting. For a Swede to go there and see the mix of really old culture and new technology is really eye-opening.
All projects are dream projects at some stage of the process.
CP+B Europe is evolving. We are hiring like crazy and expanding into new, for us, markets and media. If anybody out there would like to relocate to Gothenburg please have a look at our website. If you've been interested and have read all my answers so far, you've already past the first test.
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My grandpa's. It is really cool!
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