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Paul Tilley, 40, died Friday after jumping from a window the Fairmont hotel. His death has been ruled a suicide.
Tilley was the managing director for creative at local ad agency powerhouse DDB, which is located in the Aon Center next to the Fairmont. Tilley was responsible for the "Dude, You're Getting a Dell" campaign and codeveloped McDonald's "I'm Lovin' It" campaign, as well as overseeing the recent launch of Bud.tv. According to AdWeek, Tilley was also in charge of campaigns for Anheuser-Busch, Capital One, Cars.com, Johnson & Johnson, LensCrafters, McDonald's, Midas, OfficeMax, Safeway, State Farm, the Trib and Wrigley.
DDB's Chicago agency President Rick Carpenter released this statement over the weekend:
It is with great sorrow that I write to you this weekend. But I wanted you to hear this difficult news from me first. Last night, Paul Tilley tragically died at age 40. The reality of this news is difficult to comprehend. It is such loss for DDB, but also for our industry, our community, and certainly for his family and all who loved him.Paul was a mentor to many, a friend to all. His ability to lead, inspire, and yes, entertain will be so greatly missed.
Our thoughts are with his family and with one another during this very difficult time.
AdWeek, Crain's, S-T, Marketing Vox, image via AdPulp]
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How ironic a "sucessful" man that filled the heads
of the American consumer to the hilt with "buy!" "buy!" "buy!" in the end with all the money and the trinkets, glitter and gold it brings, was probably empty and hollow inside.
Perhaps in tribute, I'll go home, thumb through my dog eared copy of Beckett's Waiting for Godot
and raise a glass to him as well. Its been too long, but I'm sure my copy is around. I'm not one to toss a good read, or a bad one for that matter.
R.I.P. Paulie
Spook: How do you deal with the difficulties of being the only pure soul in Chicago?
I think it's sad. The pressure of working for such a large company and managing such large accounts must be maddening. Particularly if your shop isn't helping you produce quality work.
I'm not a designer, but I feel for people in extremely stressful job situations.
This guy was too young to go and I only wish he just took a step back and smelled the roses.
Tilda, don't F*ck wit da Bunny yo!
But again Matty Old Boy it sounds a tad bit deeper than that, perhaps just a scosh?
Cause it seems like he was "doing well"
I stand by my original words
Oh and Tilda, The Bunny aint got no claim on a pure soul! Shhhh*****t specially come weekend!
But ya Bunny is a soul thats learned and now understands what a brotha named Giambatista(sp?)Vico meant when he wrote that book way way back called "New Science"! Talking about the importance of deeping ones soul aka "maturation" in one's brief slide from womb to the tomb. Yea we all gone be there in the end but what we do do in the brief "interim" is what sets us apart!
Spook: I must apologize. While I know enough to ask for beer in about five languages, I don't speak nor understand your particular fusion of psuedo-Marxist, TV-inspired, Internet-ready ebonics.
Does Google offer a translator for such a language?
Or must I pay for the Berlitz immersion?
I know what you're on, Matilda!
Yea,you're trying to get Margaret to resend my "commentator of the month of march" award/shirt!
You're trying to get me to come right out and say that I don't have much sympathy for Tilley or any body else who makes a fat living by contributing to this hyper narcissistic and materialistic culture, unless they are using the money to do some thing "undercover" to radically change it.
But it aint gonna happend Tilda Till Till! But I'm sure you would find Beckett and Vico's work
interesting and telling
signed
Spook- Commentator for March- elect
p.s how do we know you can order beer in five
five languages! Put your pen were your mouth is!
post it here!
I'm in the advertising biz. It's the worst. I got there by default...not something I planned, and I would walk through broken glass to keep my kids from ever even contemplating even interning at an agency for one day.
That being said, my ex is in the biz too...big time exec....I wish he had been the one to jump instead.
It's a shame that he was at a point in his life where jumping out the window seemed like a good idea, but there are much more streesful jobs.
Kind of lame...and, yet, Spook still won't speak in complete sentences..
How'd he get the window open?
My condolences to his friends, family and co-workers.
i work with a woman whose husband works at the fairmont (not sure of his title). she said that the window was kicked out (32nd or 37th floor) and then he jumped.
I had no idea working in an office all day coming up with soulless catch-phrases was so terrible. I mean, yea I feel bad that this grown man took his life perhaps as a cause of the pressures of work. Maybe home. Maybe both. Lots of maybes.
Truth is A LOT of people take their own lives every day and like myself hardly any one of us notice.
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Luckily he didn't hit anyone below and kill them too.
Which makes me think: has that ever happened? That would be a crappy way to go.
Rather than speculate or get into the details of this man's final moments (because other public forums have turned very ugly in recent days regarding this), I'd like to think this place can stay above the fray.
Mr. Tilley left behind a wife, two children, a mother, and friends. My thoughts are with them during this time. I lost a close friend ten years ago in similar circumstances, and over time, I was fortunate that the bad memories faded and the good memories remained. It's my hope that the deceased's family and friends are blessed with a similar experience as each of them grieves in their own way.
@Swilly24
I recall that at least one (and possibly more) firefighter was killed on the ground at the WTC when a jumper landed on him--not quite the same situation I know, but close enough...
"You're trying to get me to come right out and say that I don't have much sympathy for Tilley or any body else who makes a fat living by contributing to this hyper narcissistic and materialistic culture"
So, your lack of sympathy because you put yourself above him due to labeling him as a person strictly on the notion of his career achievements places you in the "hyper narcissistic and materialistic culture."
If so, maybe you contemplated suicide before. . but failed to go through with it, for fear of an errection. You see, other people can read existential books as well, but don't need to make references based on the fact that someone committed suicide and suicide was mentioned in the play's dialog. Honestly, if anything, I would presume the characters in Beckett's play would make you understand there are many facets to a person beyond ego in every person.
Personally, I feel compassion for a man that is tormented enough to end his own life.