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6 unusual facts about Leo Burnett


Dominic Meily

Artquirks Studio has worked with various advertising agencies, including Mccann Erickson, Leo Burnett, and Lowe Lintas, as well as with various production houses, including Electromedia Production, Unitel Productions, and Filmex.

Leo Burnett

He was known for being heavily involved in the Creative Revolution in the 1960s, with other great advertising heads like David Ogilvy, William Bernbach and Mary Wells.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Her corporate marketing career included stints at the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago and Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Michael A. Miles

Miles began his career at Leo Burnett & Co. in 1961 as a Media analyst, and progressed to the position of VP Account Supervisor.

Roberto Duailibi

From 1956, he worked as copywriter in advertising agencies such as CIN - Companhia de Incremento de Negócios (now Leo Burnett Publicidade Ltda), JWT, McCann Ericson and Standard Propaganda, where he was Creative vice-president.

St. Johns, Michigan

Leo Burnett - Advertising Executive, Founder of Chicago-based Advertising Company Leo Burnett Worldwide


Chicago Recording Company

Advertising agencies such as Draft FCB, Leo Burnett, Young & Rubicam, and DDB frequently produce in the company's nine post-production studios.

Ephemeral Museum

The first Ephemeral Museum of the world, created by Leo Burnett for the Pampero Fundación, expands its frontiers.

The idea jump-started when Leo Burnett set up a marketing plan for Pampero’s rum, creating a place where everyday street artists could be acknowledged.

In July 2008, Leo Burnett transformed the streets of Bairro Alto – Lisbon’s bohemian quarter - into a true outdoor museum.

M. T. Carney

After working at London's Leo Burnett she spent six years as an account planner for the former Ammirati Puris Lintas.

Ted Vogt

From 1995 until he entered the United States Air Force in 2000, Vogt spent time chiefly in the private sector as an investment banker in the New York metropolitan area, advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago, (beginning during the U.S. presidential election, 1996) executive assistant to then-former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and at night a member of The Second City comedy troupe (1997–2000).

Yasmin Ahmad

Yasmin Ahmad (7 January 1958 – 25 July 2009) was a film director, writer and scriptwriter from Malaysia and was also the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur.


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Dino Kotopoulis

Kotopoulis did graphic design and animation work for advertising firms in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles for more than 20 years, including for StarKist's "Charlie the Tuna" brand {created by Tom Rogers of the Leo Burnett Agency} for which he won a coveted Clio award.

Marc Muench

Muench has worked with such companies as Leo Burnett, IMI, Kodak, Grey Advertising, Ogilvy and Mather, McCann Erickson, Karsh and Hagan, Hakuhodo Inc., Hallmark, Time-Life, Reader's Digest, and The National Geographic on various projects.

Outdoor Media Association

Contributors to OPEN include Stephen Banham of Letterbox Design, Adam Ferrier of Naked Communications, Sudeep Gohil of Droga5 and Micah Walker of The Monkeys, whilst the books foreword is by Todd Sampson of Leo Burnett Australia.