When we becomes me: Mcgarrybowen’s Angus Macadam on leaving a creative partnership

Paul Jordan recently left his post as joint executive creative director of Mcgarrybowen London to become ECD at WCRS. His former partner, Angus Macadam, now sole ECD at the Dentsu shop, reflects on life as a creative divorcee.
I’ve recently parted ways with my creative partner Paul Jordan, after 20 years. It was a conscious uncoupling. And it’s been emotional.
We teamed up in the summer of 1998. I remember it well because we were working in our kitchens, assembling a portfolio o