Guy Day (July 30, 1930 – January 16, 2010) was an American
advertising executive who cofounded
Chiat/Day with
Jay Chiat
Jay Chiat (October 25, 1931 – April 23, 2002) started his career as an American advertising copywriter.
Biography
Chiat was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx in New York City and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers ...
in 1968. The agency went on to do memorable work for
Apple Computer
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, including the
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1984
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January
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Super Bowl
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commercial. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Day founded an agency called Faust/Day with Tom Faust. When Faust left, Day called Chiat to discuss a merger with Jay Chiat & Associates. Day won a
coin toss to see who would be the president of the new agency.
[Turner, Dan (July 19, 1999)]
TBWA Chiat/Day: advertising agency - 20 Years that Changed Los Angeles.
''Los Angeles Business Journal.''
Day retired from Chiat/Day in 1986. He later did business development at Keye/Donna/Pearlstein.
[Rothenberg, Randall (June 19, 1989]
'' New York Times''
From 1994 - 1997 Guy sat on the board of The Leap Group and advised the partners of The Leap Partnership.
Day had two sons, Cameron and Bill, who also work in advertising and a daughter, Colleen. Guy died in January 2010 in Pflugerville, Texas.
Bibliography
*''Chiat/Day'' Rizzoli, 1989,
References
1930 births
2010 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
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