Yorkshire born, Aussie flavoured commercial creative & truth seeker. I’m a conceptual thinker, digital tinkerer, discerning storyteller and hands-on crafter.

Currently living and working in London at global innovation consultancy Fahrenheit212 defining business growth strategies and helping design new services, products, business models and experiences for some of the world’s largest companies.

I thrive off of solving real business and consumer problems through innovation and design thinking, using research and data-driven choices to achieve an elevated creative and commercial solution and then applying pixel-perfect craft to create something truly beautiful.

Over the last decade as both Creative Director and Art Director at Clemenger BBDO, KWP! and The Distillery I’ve built an eclectic portfolio across an equally broad range of industries & channels. 

Whether leading multidisciplinary teams or working with peers/clients I love to see others thrive too. It’s one of the reasons why I’ve lectured/mentored at AWARD school for the past five years; meeting upcoming talent and (hopefully) inspiring the next generation of thinkers & doers.

Personal Projects

Every creative has their own projects simmering away and I’ll be updating this site soon with some of my other side projects. I make no apologies for how many of them feature AR, vending machines or both at the same time.

Awards

My work has been recognised at local & international levels; NYF, AWARD, One Show & AADC (SA) awards as well Cannes nominations. In 2014 I created a campaign that broke records at the AADC (SA) awards collecting 14 trophies including 2 gold chairs and helped Clemenger BBDO Adelaide climb to #2 most awarded Australian digital agency. Another AADC heist was repeated a year later for other projects. In 2017 whilst at The Distillery we proudly took away 6 awards across 5 different projects, for film, UX design, innovation and branding.

Skills

Design Thinking, Innovation Design, Ideation, Concept Development, Art Direction, Design, Typography & Layout, Retouching, Interactive/UX design, Mobile/App Design, Interactive Prototyping & Animation, Content Creation, Editing, Copywriting.

Experience

Feb 2018 - today
Senior Designer at Fahrenheit 212
Innovation Consultancy
feb 2016 - feb 2018
Creative Director at The Distillery
Digital Agency
jan 2015 - feb 2016
Senior Digital Creative at KWP! Advertising
Adelaide's largest independently owned ad agency
sept 2013 - jan 2015
Senior Creative / 2IC at Clemenger BBDO Adelaide
Part of the BBDO network with offices Australia-wide.
jan 2008 - sept 2013
Digital Creative/Art Director Clemenger BBDO Adelaide
jan 2008 - dec 2010
Front End Designer/Developer at Clemenger BBDO Adelaide
mar 2007 - dec 2007
Independent newspaper (print & digital) based in Adelaide.
jun 2004 - jan 2008
Digital designer & flash developer
Freelance in UK and Australia