The other day, I was updating my dad on my life & it escalated into a discussion around advertising which, if you know me, is my absolute FAVE subject. For those who don't know what I do, I'm part of the in-house agency at LRS ; working with the brand teams to plan and develop creative & digital strategies for their marketing communications, which my team then produce.  I've always been very passionate about the industry I'm in and ALWAYS want to talk about what I'm working on; even cornering people when drunk, babbling ideas at them. Anyway, this chat with my dad led us on to talk about his dad, Richard Cripps, who worked in advertising around the 50's. As you can imagine, I got hyped that he was a real life "Mad Men", so this is a little post around him and a couple of notable things he worked on. He said he could only work with a cigarette and yellow paper In 1947, a few years after serving in the RAF during the war, Gr...