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| (L-R) David Kennedy (far left), George Lois, Dan Wieden and Rich Silverstein of the film “Art & Copy” pose for a portrait at the Film Lounge Media Center during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2009 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Matt Carr/Getty Images)| |
Oregon Historical Society Chief Kerry Tymchuk said Wieden + Kennedy was vital for Portland.
"Similarly as organizations like Nike and Columbia made Portland ground zero for the activewear business, Dan Wieden and Wieden + Kennedy made it ground zero for the imaginative business," Tymchuk said. "Other publicizing firsts, other advertising firms continued to come to Oregon since they started out at Wieden + Kennedy or were drawn in here to what Wieden + Kennedy was doing."
Kennedy kicked the bucket very nearly a year prior at 82 years old.
Wieden was brought up in Portland, moving on from Award Secondary School and the College of Oregon, where he procured a degree in news-casting. Wiedne upheld and made nearby non-benefits.
Dan Wieden's family asks that recognitions be made as gifts to Caldera Expressions, a non-benefit he made that upholds Oregon understudies and specialists.