When Mad Men premiered in 2007, I must say it was fun to have a popular tv show that sensationalized the early years of my career of choice—but it almost never happened. Matthew Weiner wrote the first draft of the pilot in the year 2000, but it wasn’t picked up until a talent manager on Weiner’s team dusted off the script and pitched it to AMC years later. Weiner had previously written a story about advertising in the 1960s and wrote Mad Men through the prism of recent American history. The original poster and subsequent marketing materials were designed by the entertainment design agency The Refinery.