5 minutes with...
Every month we talk to leading advertising, design and media professionals from the industry. If you'd like to contribute to the feature then please email Owen for more information
Our latest Interviews...
Creative Director, Guerilla...
Hi, my name’s Geoff, I’m 5’ 7” with blue eyes and GSOH, I’m a Capricorn who’s married with three children, one beautiful grandchild (believe me when I say I don’t look old enough) and a dog. I enjoy watching films and long, romantic walks by the sea.
Creative Director, JWT London...
JWT London is an integrated creative agency of international imagination. Our heritage of innovation, our scale and experience of the world, along with the quality of our people, defines who we are.
Creative Director, Collective London...
Collective London create highly effective interactive work through insightful strategy, innovative ideas, and beautifully crafted experiences that people want to share.
I head up Realise, one of the top 20 independent digital agencies in the UK with offices in Farringdon and Leith, Edinburgh.
Group Creative Director, LBi...
Simon Attwater is the Group Creative Director at LBi London. LBi is a global marketing and technology agency, expert at blending strategic, creative, media and technical expertise to build business value. We help companies of all shapes and sizes decide what’s next for their business - and then we take them there. We define and execute transformational digital strategies for clients including BT, Coca-Cola, E.ON, Lloyds TSB, Play.com, SAB Miller and Virgin Atlantic.
Creative Director, Rufus Leonard...
James Ramsden is a Creative Director at Rufus Leonard, an independent creative communications agency with over 25 years experience helping brands succeed in today’s always on world, located in the heart of London’s busy Clerkenwell district. We’re proud to have remained an independent agency for over twenty years and still thrive on our individual and entrepreneurial spirit.
Head of Client Services, We Love...
We Love is a strategic creative agency with digital at its heart. We offer a smarter way to connect and create resonance with audiences, across multiple digital platforms. At We Love our imaginations have no limits and we work collaboratively to make sure that our clients always shine. We understand that influence and change are only available with reason and stimulus, and we provide both.
Together makes a bigger impact. Together is more knowledgeable. Together is more cost effective. Together is easier. With strategic planning, advertising, digital, design and media planning under one roof, together is Nexus|h.
Creative Director, Forever Beta
Forever Beta is an integrated creative agency that believes in the power of WOW. We were voted ‘Best breakthrough agency” in this years MAA Awards. We believe everything is Forever Beta. Constantly changing, improving, researching, testing, discovering and creating.
Creative Director, Leo Burnett London
We don’t make brands famous, we make brands popular.
We create work that is inclusive and bold and appeals to the mass market. We want to create work that a brand can grow into, that will appeal to more than just the immediate target audience.
SheSays is an award-winning organisation running free mentorship and events to women in the creative and marketing businesses. Why? Because we want to see more women at the top. And since we are all about doing we also offer courses, career management and a collaboration platform called shout.
Creative Director, Blow Creative
Blow Creative is an award winning through-the-line creative communications agency based in Bristol (with partner agencies in London). We are a team of creative, strategic and technical individuals always looking to exceed expectations and ensure we put a smile on our clients’ faces along the way.
JWT London is an integrated creative agency of international imagination. Our heritage of innovation, our scale and experience of the world, along with the quality of our people, defines who we are.
Creative Director, Sane & Able
Sane & Able is a creative agency that offers you a complete range of design skills all in one compact little package. Our experience and knowledge gives us the insight to be able to tailor bespoke projects from the very earliest stage to the final delivery, whether they are print, online, packaging, branding - we can help.
Executive Creative Director, The Marketing Store
The Marketing Store is one of Britain’s leading integrated agencies. Our London office has about 250 people, with around 100 creatives working across all disciplines, including promotional, retail, experiential, product and digital, the last of which we integrate into everything we do.
Creative Director, Creativespark
Creative Spark is one of the North West’s leading brand and design agencies, with a head office based in Manchester’s creative hub - the Northern Quarter.
The agency will celebrate its tenth year in business this year and boasts a client roster including Universal, Manchester United, ASICS, Peter Kay and Lilly Allen.
Creative Director, Erskine Design
Erskine is a full service creative agency helping both established brands and start-ups to engage with their audience through effective design and innovative technology.
Founded in 2001, we are a London-based graphic design agency.
Our strength is in producing bold, memorable and effective graphic design and communications— including for print, packaging, digital and moving image. We work for clients big & small, including Nokia, Design Museum London, Sony, Getty Images and a host of smaller independents.
Exposure is a creative communications business. We were founded on the power of network 18 years ago and we still work on that same principal today. We generate ideas and content that spark conversations, are talked about and shared across our network and beyond.
Creative Director, Imagination
Launched in London in 1968, Imagination is an independent communications agency whose roots lie in non-traditional, live, experience marketing. Imagination has fifteen offices around the world, and the full complement of in-house talent, from brand consultants to architects, advertising specialists to interior designers, retail specialists and event producers to direct marketers and digital experts.
I like to think, ODD is the integrated creative agency specialising in consumer marketing for fashion and lifestyle brands.
Ice is a brand experience agency , we help our clients express their brand values through live events, exhibitions & environments.
Co-Founder, Executive Creative Director, ATTIK
ATTIK is a global creative agency. We develop branding, interactive experiences and fully integrated advertising campaigns for our clients. Once our primary focus was on awesome design. We've now built strong strategic planning, advertising, production, and client service departments. Our team has found extraordinary success across most consumer product and service categories. With the right strategy, creative ideas and gorgeous design, we come up with branding and advertising solutions that ensure target audiences stay connected to our clients' brands.
Global Creative Director, Coca-Cola TM, The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company needs little introduction, but I can say I'm incredibly lucky to work for Jonathan Mildenhall who leads Content Excellence here in Atlanta, at a time when creativity and the development of excellent creative work is high on the company's agenda.
Medina Films is a London-based production company creating high calibre documentaries, commercials and promos in the UK and internationally. We are global storytellers in a digital world.
The Chase is a creative consultancy, based in London, Manchester and Preston. We work mainly in branding but have done everything from a football stadium design to stamps. Our strength is the variety or work we produce. It's kept us in the top five of the creative league table for almost a decade now. .
Creative Director, Blue Marlin
Blue Marlin is the home of landing big ideas, which are at the heart of everything we do. We pride ourselves on delivering relevant, unique and consistent experiences across brand touch points worldwide. Blue Marlin is an independent integrated brand design consultancy with an international network of offices across the UK, USA, Australia and the Far East.
Creative Director EMEA, Creative Lab, Google
In the world of search engines there are none bigger than the giant that is Google. Check out our interview with Google's Creative Director EMEA, Creative Lab
Roz Nazerian and Nicola Graham
Co-founders and Creative Directors, Minx Creative
"Minx Creative is a full service creative studio. We create integrated campaigns and design for print, identity, branding, display and digital based projects."
"First and foremost we're a design and advertising agency. We look at our clients' problems and solve them creatively."
"We're a digital agency whose founding mantra was to be a pleasure to work with. In reality that means being honest, producing great work and achieving our clients' objectives. And being nice, but that just comes naturally to us."
"We Love... A fresh new take on what a digital creative agency can be...
Progressive and flexible, driven and creative, we offer an alternative way forward in terms of design, strategy, attitude and ultimately deliverables. Our strength lies in our understanding of markets and brand, our clarity of communication and the intensity of engagement we can achieve."
"MintTwist is a London based, full service Digital Agency. Working with SMEs and Corporates in the UK, Europe and the Middle East, we help design and implement digital strategies that deliver a measurable ROI."
"Barôn are a branding and digital agency based in Bolton. We are a small team of award winning designers and developers who strive to create contemporary, intelligent design."
"View Creative is located in Rhos on Sea, a small town in North Wales so our clients are based across Wales and the UK. As much as we work on big jobs, a lot of the time, we haven't forgotten how to work small. Our clients are as large as the Royal Albert Hall, or as little as a local primary school. Our long standing client list demonstrates our longevity and reliable performance. Our work is creative, considered and always of the highest quality.
Although we are one of the largest design teams in Wales, we are small enough so that we are flexible, adaptable and able to give any project the full attention it deserves. You will see from our portfolio that we are professional but we haven't forgotten how to have fun!."
Design and Art Director, Very Own Studio
"Very Own Studio is a small independent practice specialising in identity and graphic design for print and screen. It was formed by Mark Ferguson in 2009 in Manchester but is currently based in sunny Brighton."
"I have always been rubbish at elevator pitches! But here goes... Headscape is a web design company that offers development, design and consultancy services. We have a broad client base from large public sector organisations to charities, higher education institutions and multi-million pound ecommerce websites."
"A new agency 28 years young. Brass is a new breed of marketing communications agency. Using new insight, ideas and technology, we help clients succeed in a world of constant change."
"Us is a multi-disciplinary design and direction studio, whose work covers brand identity, printed literature, advertising, motion, installations & web. We believe that projects should stem from good ideas no matter how big or small. In their studio they look to create work that excites, inspires and most importantly meets the needs of the client."
Interactive Creative Director, Metajive
"We are a small interactive company that cares about making things good for our clients. Our moto is keep it clean/fun because both are equally important."
"We are a multi-disciplinary (only bit of jargon, promise!) design company with a head office in Glasgow. We pride ourselves in offering a wealth of big company experience with small company overheads. Our sleek approach also allows us to work with our clients in a much more direct and fun way."
"Heavenly is a branding agency established in 2002. We believe in capturing people's imagination with refreshing brand strategy and iconic creative work. We work the world over. From America and Russia to the Middle East and India. With the biggest of brands to the smallest start ups. We like travelling and we like a healthy mix of clients. We're strategists, writers, designers, art directors and producers. We think about brands from every perspective, from internal culture to advertising, digital to broadcast and print. We make brands that are well rounded."
Creative Director, breathingjuice
"breathingjuice produces digital design and motion graphics for a wide range of clients and the very best creative agencies. We create digital content that can work across multiple platforms including website channels, social media campaigns, mobile applications, live events, exhibitions and outdoor advertising."
Creative Director, Digital Jigsaw
"Not only is Scott's agency work great but he also has an award-winning blogging presence which is well worth a look so make sure you check out Scott's interview here."
Creative Director, Studio Juice
"We specialise in creative for print, digital, mobile and retail. Our designers, producers and technologists sit side by side in small, integrated teams. This approach allows us to react quickly and strategically for our clients, helping them win. We are heavily based in music but take on a wide variety of briefs from various industries."
Check out Ross's interview.
Creative Director, Tomorrow People
"We listen, we create, we engage, we transform, we grow."
Be sure to have a read of our interview with Steven.
"Believe in is an independent design and branding agency established in 1996. We exist to articulate engaging, provocative and effective brand experiences driven by ideas and solid research. We push boundaries and exploit possibilities, working in partnership with ambitious clients to realise the full potential of their brands."
Check out this great interview with Blair.
Digital Creative Director, Digital & Direct
Digital and Direct are a branding agency with a huge list of clients that they have created fantastic content for.
Join us for the latest '5 Minutes With' interview with DAD's Ben Winter where we discover what Ben studied to begin his route into the creative industry as well as his appreciation of Batman and the most pragmatic mobile app choices.
Steve Boswell is the Deputy ECD of Lowe and Partners. We caught up with Steve for the latest exclusive Creativepool interview.
From getting started in the creative industry to Mr. Magoo and the appreciation of a good beard, it's all here!
Creative Director, The Neighbourhood
Jon Humphreys is the Creative Director and Co-founder of Neighbourhood; a branding, design and animation agency.
Find out how Jon went from studying architecture with a interest in a broad range of design to being at the forefront of this multimedia company and working with clients such as Sony Playstation, Nike, Lexus and others.
Deputy Executive Creative Director, Bartle Bogle Hegarty
Being a deputy executive Creative Director at Bartle Bogle Hegarty, deputy president of D and AD as well as other positions, Rosie Arnold has a great deal of experience and expertise in the advertising industry.
Read this '5 minutes with' to discover how Rosie got into the advertising industry as well as her love of Cornwall and eBay!
Creative Strategy Lead, Canonical
Ivanka Majic is the Creative Strategy Lead at Canonical, a company that delivers free-to-use software platforms.
In this week's '5 minutes with', we interview Rosie to discover what she loves about her job as well as her love of Westwood handbags and motorbikes!
Meet Dave Dye - Creative Director of DHM, although during our quick 5 minutes with Dave we found out that he would rather you call him a Commissioning Editor, "because it sounds cooler".
This nugget of wisdom is just one of many uncovered in our brief interview. Amongst the others, Dave tells us about how he got started in the business, what a normal day in the office involves and what he would be doing if he weren't doing that.
Creative Director, Beattie McGuinness Bungay
In our brief interview, Ben tells us about how he started off in the industry by attending a copywriting course in Hounslow. We touch upon what exactly the job involves, the opportunity to work with wonderfully talented people, and the perks of the job.
This swift yet intresting encounter, is quite left of centre so join us as we discuss, The Stone Roses, sharing brilliant ideas and selling hotdogs at QPR.
Peter Riley is the Chief Creative Officer of the digital advertising agency, 20:20. Starting off in the industry as a copywriter, he now spends his days overcoming clients' problem with creativity.
We sat down with Peter to discuss what he loves about the job, his favourite pieces of creative work and advice he has for people wishing to make a name for themselves.
Starting off as an interactive designer, Edward Lloyd-Williams is now Executive Creative Director at cScape - we caught up with him to discus his rise in the industry and the lessons learnt along the way.
Edward tells us, amongst other things, his favourite work online, the ups and downs of working in the industry and the best pieces of advice he could give.
Executive Creative Director, Teamspirit
Do Executive Creative Directors still remember what it was like to sit on the other side of the table?
Should they roll their sleeves up and crack out the odd idea? What happens if creative people are rubbish at presenting? And how is it these days for agencies that specialise in the financial markets?
These and many more devilishly tricky questions are answered by creative supremo, and all round top bloke, Graham Pugh.