About me

Nikola Zinic is a Chief Creative Officer and Co-Chairman of Bruketa&Zinic&Grey advertising agency based in Zagreb, Croatia, which serves as a Design Hub for global Grey network. So far, he was a jury member of the Euro Effie and Effie Croatia awards, Croatian Young Lions Award, regional Kaktus Award, SPORTO and PART Award.

In 1995, together with Davor Bruketa, he founded Bruketa&Zinic OM agency, which was, after becoming part of Grey Group in 2017 renamed to Bruketa&Zinic&Grey.

As Bruketa&Zinic OM, the agency won over 600 awards for advertising and design. In 2014,

Advertising Age awarded B&Z the International Small Agency of the Year, while Campaign listed the agency among one of the world's leading independent agencies. Also, in 2012, the agency came second among independent agencies by the global Effie Effectiveness Index.

Since 1995, Nikola worked on projects that were five times Cresta finalists/winners (2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2014). The campaigns he worked on also won many professional awards such as Red Dot, Effie, Art Directors Club New York, London International Award, European Design Award, Golden Drum, Young Guns, Art Directors Club Croatia...

For years, he was a team leader for the Tele2 account, one of three major telco companies in Croatia. Nikola was also the Creative Director of Brlog, a specialized digital agency, part of Bruketa&Zinic OM group between 2010 and 2015. During that time he was the Creative Director of Zagreb Be There mobile app that won the Tourism&Strategy Award in Paris as the best digital communication project.

Nikola is also a design thinking mentor. He regularly holds lectures and workshops on innovative problem solving and creative thinking for college students and professionals.

Nikola's achievements

Judging

Nikola Zinic has sat on the Creativepool Annual jury.

Annual 2021 Judge Graphic

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