About me

Ian Perkins was given honorary Taiwan citizenship in 2019 for outstanding graphic design skill. Ian has led Name&Name advertising and design studio in Taiwan for 8 years. Previous to leading Name&Name, Ian spent sixteen years working as a creative director, art director and designer, in advertising, branding, packaging and graphic design - in London, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore and Taiwan. His work has won multiple global awards from the D&AD UK, TDC USA, Art Directors Club USA, CCA's Singapore, IDA Taiwan, CreativePool and has been exhibited around. Most recently in 2019 Ian was on of 10 people awarded Taiwan citizenship for special skills (in design and advertising). Ian has been invited to judge Asia's largest creativity awards - Spikes Asia and helped initiate Taiwan's first ever "Creativity Week" in association with Cannes Lions - the world's largest festival of creativity. His work has won "Best of show" in the Singapore CCA's, he has been named one of Asia's top 35 creatives by Campaign Asia magazine, and named as one of New York's top designers by then USA AGI Chairman Alexander Gelman in the book infiltrate. He has worked at "The worlds most influential graphic designers" (Bloomberg news) - Chermayeff&Geismar, and also at Frost Design Australia, and worked at 2 of London's top advertising agencies - W+K advertising and BBH advertising, as well as in their offices across Asia on accounts such as Nike, TheGuardian, Honda, Levi's and Google. At Name&Name Ian works closely with Adidas Asia Pacific and Adidas China, and with Reckitt Benckiser Taiwan. Other clients include China Airlines, Google, Puma, Nike, Coca-Cola, P&G and SK-II.

Ian's articles

Why craft matters - With the ECD of Name & Name - #JudgeSpotlight

Two minutes of noise for the NHS and the art of self-isolation

Creativepool's Top 100 Influencer