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The Milo Chao Show is a biography podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. In so doing, we hope to better understand the roots of creativity and how we all might nurture more in ourselves and those in our care. Season One In season one, Cao Jingxing and Milo Chao interview creators from China in Chinese. We interview a wide spectrum of people from author to actress and astrologer to barefoot doctor. Season Two In season two, Milo Chao interviews creators from Chi ...
George Lois. The story of George Lois is the story of a Greek American rabble-rousing pugilist from the rough streets of The Bronx who has spent most of his life fighting against social injustice and fighting tooth and nail for his art. The first time I heard of George Lois was while watching Art & Copy, a 2009 documentary about the advertising ind…
NILS ANDERSSON I am joined today in Shanghai by Nils Andersson. The first thing you notice about Nils is how tall he is. His Dad was a Viking from Sweden. His Mom was from Durham in the North of England. I am going to go out on a limb and say that Nils is the Phil Jackson or Alex Ferguson of the advertising industry here in Asia. He won’t tell you …
NORMAN TAN How does the eighth child in a family of thirteen children emerge as one of the most awarded advertising creatives in Asia and still manage a laid back smile? Please listen in on my conversation with Norman Tan, formerly Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of North Asia at JWT and now head honcho at “onbrand” a new type of agency that of…
We’re in a small sound booth at the Santa Monica headquarters of Headspace, the health company that guides people to mindfulness through meditation. I’m here with Caroline Pay, currently Chief Creative Officer at Headspace. Caroline was Co-Chief Creative Officer at Grey London, considered one of the most creative agencies in what is arguably one of…
LEE CLOW In this episode, I speak with advertising legend, Lee Clow who, for 25 years, partnered with Steve Jobs on some of the most brilliant pieces of advertising the world has ever seen: 1984, The Crazy One’s, and Mac vs PC (to name a few). I go into some detail about his career at the beginning of the interview so I won’t list everything here. …
SCOTT ROSS Hi. And welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today, I am in Santa Barbara with Scott Ross, best known as the founder of Digital Domain, the company that created the visual effects for such Oscar winning movies as Titanic, What Dreams May Come, and The Curious Case of Benj…
SCOTT ROSS Hi. And welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today, I am in Santa Barbara with Scott Ross, best known as the founder of Digital Domain, the company that created the visual effects for such Oscar winning movies as Titanic, What Dreams May Come, and The Curious Case of Benj…
Bill GRUNDFEST Hi. And welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today I am in Beverly Hills with Bill Grundfest, comedian, writer, producer, and director. Bill is the co-founder of the famed Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, New York, which has headlined such legends as Chris Rock, Je…
Bill GRUNDFEST Hi. And welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today I am in Beverly Hills with Bill Grundfest, comedian, writer, producer, and director. Bill is the co-founder of the famed Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, New York, which has headlined such legends as Chris Rock, Je…
BRYCE WHITWAM Hi. And welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today, I talk with Bryce Whitwam, newly minted Chief Executive Officer at MRM McCann, formerly Chief Executive Officer of Wunderman China. Both Wunderman and MRM are direct marketing agencies. Wunderman is believed to be the…
RONNIE WU Hi. Welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today, we are at TBWA Shanghai – in the sprawling yet sparse office of the Chief Creative Officer – Ronnie Wu. This interview is a bit different from earlier interviews. It involves cheese and a bottle of decent wine. Plus, it is th…
RONNIE WU Hi. Welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today, we are at TBWA Shanghai – in the sprawling yet sparse office of the Chief Creative Officer – Ronnie Wu. This interview is a bit different from earlier interviews. It involves cheese and a bottle of decent wine. Plus, it is th…
TOMAZ MOK Hello Everyone. And welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today we speak with Tomaz Mok, the second of the four godfathers of advertising in Mainland China that we’ve had on the show. Tomaz’ advertising career spans more than 45 years. 35 of those years were spent at one ag…
Hello Everyone. And welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today we speak with Tomaz Mok, the second of the four godfathers of advertising in Mainland China that we’ve had on the show. Tomaz’ advertising career spans more than 45 years. 35 of those years were spent at one agency, McCa…
杨明洁 YANG DESIGN及羊舍YANG HOUSE创始人、福布斯中国最具影响力设计师、同济大学客座教授。 在浙大与中国美院完成七年学业后，获德国WK基金会全额奖学金赴德留学，完成德国工业设计硕士学位后，任职于慕尼黑西门子设计总部。囊获了包括德国红点、iF、日本G-mark、美国IDEA、亚洲最具影响力设计银奖及福布斯中国最具影响力设计师在内的上百项大奖。 2005年创办YANG DESIGN，迄今成为中国最具前瞻思维的设计顾问公司。2013年投资创办中国首家私人工业设计博物馆，2015年创办生活方式品牌“羊舍YANG HOUSE”。 融合了德意志逻辑思考与中国人文精神的设计理念，也使得杨明洁成为了包括波音、奥迪、博世、NATUZZI、百事可乐、Steelcase、三宅一生、Swatch…
SHEENA ZHENG Hello Everyone. And welcome to the Cao & Chao Show. A podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Today, we talk with Sheena Zheng, Chief Creative Officer at McCann Worldwide China. Prior to joining McCann, she was the Chair and Chief Creative Officer of Publicis China. She was with Publicis for an amazing19 y…
MAYAN LO Welcome to the Cao& Chao Show, a podcast where we talk to remarkable creators about how they got here. Mayan recently became the Chief Creative Officer of the newly formed Wunderman Thompson APAC. He has been with J. Walter Thompson, one of the finest agencies in the world and one of the top agencies in China, for 23 years, an astounding n…
Jimmy Lam Today we are joined by Jimmy Lam. He is the President of the Asia Pacific Advertising Festival, one of the founders of Adfest and the Longxi International Chinese Language Creative Awards. He dedicates a lot of his time reinvigorating the Longyin Review magazine. Jimmy offers up his wisdom on climbing up the ladder as quickly as possible.…
Robert Kuo He was born in Beijing, grew up in Taipei, and has made his mark in Los Angeles. Architectural Digest called him the King of Cloisonné, the Raja of Repousse, the Lord of Lacquer. Others have called him the Imperial craftsman of the 21st Century. His father was considered Taiwan’s Cloisonné master. His work is on permanent display at the …
Dr. Bechara Saab CEO and Chief Scientist of Mobio Interactive, a digital therapeutics and performance enhancement company.Before setting up Mobio, he was the Principal Investigator of Neuroscience at the Psychiatric Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. After fifteen years in academia, he went off to study the effects of mindfulness meditation, resultin…
Lin Ou Famous for her elaborate embroidery designs at Anthropologie, the American fashion label, and more recently at Robert Redford’s own fashion label, Sundance. Lin is originally from Beijing, the daughter of a diplomat. She left home to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer in the United States almost twenty years ago. She started her…
Shih-Ting Hung Her first film from Hollywood’s USC Cinema School, “Viola: the traveling rooms of a little gialt (2008)” got her the 35th Student Academy Award, the cover of the Academy Report from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a projected digital showcase onto the New York Guggenheim Museum’s iconic curved wall. She has also …
Dr. Michael Zyda Founding director of USC GamePipe Laboratory here in beautiful LA. The Laboratory has been ranked the number one video gameprogram in the United States for the last 9-years by the Princeton Review. Some say it is the best program in the world. His alums have shipped games played by over 2.5 billion players with about $100B in reven…
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