About me

After bring rejected by Leicester City FC as a teenager I moved to London to seek my fortune.

Originally working in film art departments (and some lovely pubs) I went on to be an Art Director for films, commercials and music videos. I was Graphic Designer on Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and worked under Production Designer Eve Mavrakis on Tube Tales (1999) as well as designing videos for such late nineties greats as Westlife and Steps.

After winning a pitch to design the GQ Men of the Year Awards in 2001, I moved into event design and later event production at Timebased. As Head of Events at Timebased for five years I oversaw the company's key client accounts of Condé Nast, Selfridges and L'Oreal.

In 2006 I left Timebased to set-up my own company, a dedicated event division of award-winning brand architects FreeState called Clean Slate. Clean Slate offered a new agency model with a focus on open accounting and strong environmental credentials. Clients included MTV, Channel 4, Ford, French Connection, Sony, SpinVox, Virgin Megastores and The Guardian.

A freelance creative, producer and consultant from 2010 to 2014, I worked globally for some of London's leading brand experience agencies such as RPM, BD Network, FreeState, Ogilvy, Slice, Amplify, Innovision and Jack Morton.

After leading the team as a freelancer on the Shell #makethefuture Rio project, I joined J. Walter Thompson full-time in 2014. Over the following four years, JWT won over 70 industry awards including 14 golds and the Grand Prix at both the Event Awards and the EVCOM Awards. In 2016, HSBC's 'A Living River' won 20 awards including a Yellow Pencil at the D&AD Awards. The project also saw JWT Live winning the Platinum Grand Prix at the EVCOM Live Awards for the second year running. In 2017 Shell's GravityLight project picked up two White Pencils at D&AD Impact, two Golds at the Clio Awards and three Bronze Lions at Cannes.

Tom's work

HSBC "A Living River"

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