A Different Kind Of Creative Peak

In the past year, art director Duncan Marshall has uprooted himself from an award-winning life at Saatchi & Saatchi in London to move to the U.S.—a market in which he’d never spent time—to help forge a high profile for Publicis, New York, an agency no one has ever accused of creative acrobatics. David Droga recruited Marshall, 35, as ecd. But maybe that wasn’t enough of a challenge.

Marshall is seeking his summer relaxation, come late July, in climbing Western Europe’s tallest peak, Mt.