The FRESH AWARDS are back and with a BRAND NEW panel!
Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to introduce you to this year's 'In-house design team' judges.
We have a 50/50 gender policy to ensure equality and diversity on our panel. All of judges have been hand picked based on their experience and track records of working with in-house design teams.
Emma Sexton
Founder and Creative Director of Make Your Words Work™
@MYWWteam @EmmaSexton
In House Design team consultant – with a proven track record in leading, building and transforming design/creative teams into profitable, high performing, highly respected, happy, motivated, business divisions. Emma Sexton also has over 18 years graphic design experience working with brands such as Barclays, Boots, Coke, Disney, L’Oréal and Unilever. She holds an MA in Design Management from the London College of Communication and is a trained business coach. Emma was part of Shiny Shiny’s Top 50 Most Inspiring women and has been a winner of the Kantar Inspiration Award, WPP WPPed Cream Award and the Future 100 Award. Emma was also the Director of SheSays (www.weareshesays.com), the largest global creative network for women. Also the creator of ‘Flock Global’, ‘A Hetero Approach’ and co-founder of ‘A Herd To Run With’.
Ben Jarrold
Director of Video and Photography, Global Creative Services at Thomson Reuters
Having started his career on the 'client side’, in various Marketing roles at the Financial Times and then Thomson Financial, Ben Jarrold crossed the divide joining the design community at Thomson Reuters in 2008. Over the past 7 years he has been at the heart of companies’ own in-house creative agency - working on the the new post-merger brand launch, heading the global account team and then moving to specialise in video & photography production, where he continues today. As part of a departmental outsource, Ben tasted life at an external agency for a brief period of 18 months, as a Sr. Account Manager at Tag Worldwide. He returned to the Thomson Reuters fold in 2010, as a Director, to manage a team within one of the world’s largest in-house agencies. Ben particularly enjoys creative ideas that challenge a brand to be bold and forward thinking, offering designers a chance to really shape the direction of a business and believes the best ideas originate from teams that act without fear and those that are open to the ideas of those around them.
Charlie Sells
Founder and Creative Director of Jelly London
@Charlie_Jelly @JellyLondon
Charlie Sells is a Creative Director who started out her career as an animation student before working in various design studios. She joined Three Blind Mice on the sales side in 2004 before founding Jelly, one of London’s leading creative illustration and animation studios. Forever inspired and infatuated with bringing the imagined to life with any tools from pencils to pixels she continues to manage a talented production team and roster of artists to create outstanding content for super-brands like IBM, Converse and French Connection. She has an on-going passion for finding and encouraging up and coming talent which has led to her involvement with Creative Circle, Shots Magazine, the APA, VOTD, the Tomorrow Awards, the Young Directors Award and she currently sits in the D&AD New Blood 2014 judges panel. In 2014 saw Charlie launch 'Jelly Kitchen' a specialist in-house animation collective along with 'Futures,' which is a new initiative to nurture fresh talent into the business of contemporary illustration.
Graham Daldry
Creative Director of Specsavers
Graham has been the Creative Director of Specsavers for the past 16 years and is the writer of the iconic: 'Should've gone to Specsavers’ strapline. He is also responsible for the UK's longest lived current advertising campaign since its inception in 2002. Having previously worked in all sorts of agencies, Graham then set up the in-house design team at Specsavers, and although he describes it as a ‘trial and error’, he has managed to build a team that dovetails very well into the company. Specsavers is a unique business. It is an independent company, it's not quoted and it's very entrepreneurial and innovative. There aren’t many clients that would support a creative agency and allow it to have creative freedom the way Specsavers does.
Jane Richardson
Director of Strategic Relationships at Aquent/Vitamin T
@VitaminTalent @JaneRic20
With over 16 years experience working for Aquent - one of the leading recruitment companies for high end creatives - Jane started as a design team manager and is now the strategic accounts director. With a degree in graphic design and having placed thousands of talented freelancers around London, Jane’s background has given her a great insight into the industry and helped her understand the needs of her clients.
Michael Tomes
Founder of Creativepool ltd.
@CPMike @Creativepool
Michael is the founder of Creativepool -www.creativepool.com. During his time at the helm, the site has changed from being the UK's premier website to find and display your work to now being the link between you, your work and the companies that you work for on the international stage. With over 150,000 members and 10,000 companies, Creativepool provides a free service that lets companies and individuals showcase their work, share and connect.
Why enter?
We are the only award in the UK for in-house design teams. Not only will it give your team the recognition they deserve, but also allows you to showcase their talents to the design industry.
The winner of the in-house design team award will also:
– Attend the awards in Manchester with us –
– FREE Work Smart workshop with Emma Sexton –
– £1000 worth of consultancy from Academy Class –
– PLUS an Exclusive interview with Creativepool –
How do we enter?
To showcase the work your in-house design team are doing for FREE, register an account on the Fresh Awards website and go to Fresh Creative Awards > Specialist > In-House Design team to submit your entry.
We are looking for case studies to show how your in-house design team has had an impact on the business. This could focus on one project/campaign or overall.
Deadline for submission is the 23rd July and the award ceremony will take place on 9th October in Manchester.
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