RIP Dan Wieden

By Ken Williams. 1 October 2022. 1 min read.

Like the very, very best creatives, Dan Wieden transcended his discipline. I watched Art & Copy on a weekly basis at the beginning of my career and think about this segment all the time. RIP.

Dan Wieden, co-founder of Wieden+Kennedy, in an excerpt from Art & Copy (2009), directed by Doug Pray.

A Dan Wieden quote painted on a white wall, on giving creative organisations permission for disorder. It ends: “Excellence is not a formula. Excellence is the grand experiment. It ain’t mathematics. It’s jazz.”