CLIO: Nick Law's Art (and Science) of War

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LAS VEGAS A culture war’s been brewing at advertising agencies, said Nick Law, evp, North American CCO at R/GA, on Thursday at the final day keynote speech of the 50th anniversary CLIO Festival in Las Vegas.

The good news? This one doesn’t seem to involve “teabagging” of any sort. The speech, titled “Divided We Fall,” was Law’s way of sticking advertising and technology types on a mountaintop, handing them Cokes and teaching them to talk to each other — or at the very least acknowledge that they sometimes approach the task of communicating quite differently.

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