Frozen out: for ten years Pat Burnham was the creative center of arguably the country's most creative shop. It turns out he was on thin ice

In Minneapolis, commercial director Rick Dublin’s annual….Then Pat Burnham walked in. There was just the hint of a smile dancing around his mouth and a crude cardboard sign hanging around his neck. It read: Will Work for Food.”It was pure Burnham,” says one Minneapolis creative. “In a single stroke, people knew whatever else he might have lost, he hadn’t lost his perspective.”