HELLO I'M CHRIS.
Welcome to my folio site. My career in advertising has spanned 20 years, during this time I've had the privilege of working on brands such as Heineken, Bentley, Call of Duty, Sony, EA, EE, Patrón Tequila and Adidas. Along the way the work has been recognised at Cannes Lions, The Webbys, BIMA Awards, The Lovie awards, DADIs, Campaign Tech Awards, Campaign Big, FWA and this year I became a guest speaker at the Cannes Lions 2019 festival. Currently you will find me at Publicis•Poke as Creative Director.
THINGS THAT MAKE MUM PROUD:
Campaign Tech Awards - Best experimental technology.
Entertainment Lion - AR, VR & Mixed media. Shortlist.
The Lovie Awards - Gold, Experimental & Innovation.
The Lovie Awards - People’s award.
Campaign Magazine: Top 6 Digital Innovation 2020.
.FWA of the Day 15th August 2020
Campaign Magazine: Top 6 Digital Innovation 2019
BIMA Awards – Best in sector 2019.
Campaign Big Award - Shortlist, Use of Digital Tech
Campaign Big Award - Shortlist, Use of an Influencer
The Webby’s - Honoree, Best Narrative Experience
FWA of the Day 10th November 2017
Internationalist - Gold, Innovative digital solutions
BIMA Awards - Shortlist, Comms, Content & Craft.
DADI - Shortlist, Best automotive campaign.
IVCA - Best Experiential Digital Event: Gold Award
SIDE HUSTLE: @DOUGHBALLDISCO
My endless quest to sling the perfect sourdough disc lead me to become a brand ambassador for the World’s No. 1 Pizza Oven Company @oonihq.
CREATIVE ADVENTURES
Cannes Lions 2019: Guest Speaker
Speaking on the interactive stage in Palais II, we talked about our EE BAFTA project: A.I. Stylist. Talking along side Cameron-James Wilson the creator of @shudu.gram and Pete Jeavons from EE, we uncovered what 5G and A.I means for fashion.
Great British Diversity Experiment
A team of creative directors with one shared goal: to convince creative agencies that they need to change their hiring policies and become more diverse. Their method? The Great British Diversity Experiment.
I volunteered to take part in one of the highly diverse teams. Our challenge was to solve food waste at home with Tesco.
VML Visa Global Winner
Big Ideas take you places. The VML Visa program, is a global creative competition where you pitch your biggest proactive marketing idea's to a global judging panel from the network to win all-expense-paid trip to a VML office of their choosing. This experience whilst great for me, also gave me the opportunity to bring back key learnings to implement at VML London.
BIMA Digital Day mentor
In October 2015 I volunteered as a mentor for BIMA Digital Day. A nationwide event that links digital professionals from across the UK's creative & professional sectors with young people in our schools and colleges. Working on a live brief my Role was to be a mentor to the 60 students at Woking College and host a live brief to inspire them to start a career in the digital industry.
D&AD New Blood: Portfolio reviews
Early in my career I was lucky enough to find a mentor who helped shaped me as a creative and still does. As such I also like to help out to inspire the latest crop of new blood by participating in Portfolio reviews.