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Advertising For People Who Don’t Like Advertising was initiated by a group of creative people working from a church in Amsterdam.

The church features original stained-glass windows, an exquisite marble altar and (for reasons best left unexplained) a gigantic wooden fortress where the pews should be. Once the chapel for a local order of nuns, it is now the home of a communications agency called Kessels-Kramer. fig. 02

KK was founded by an art director/ copywriter team, after they’d been fired from a prestigious London agency. Frustrated by the politics, slow production schedules and routine of large agency life, Johan Kramer and Erik Kessels aimed to create a less structured, more prolific ...

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