Wieden’s ad students out to fix America

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Say what you will about the students in Wieden + Kennedy’s W+K 12 in-house ad school, but they’ve got some great facial hair. This video shows W+K 12 director Jelly Helm and his protégés at the Portland ad agency working on a project called “America. Love it or fix it” for Good magazine. One of the hairy students, with the great advertising name of Scrappers Morrison, says of the program: “I don’t know if we’re making ads, or if we’re doing art school, or, like, part of some reality show without any cameras hidden anywhere.”

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