2009
Blast from the past
Big smile when I got this. For those of you who don’t have a clue who David Shanks is: David was the Creative Director I worked with on my first job at Pounds Shanks Jordan Advertising and whose ‘never say die (even if you’re careening off a speeding taxi)’ manifesto I have carried with me all through the past 15 years in the creative industry. As a newbie then, no one could have asked for a better mentor as a “creative troublemaker”: “I’ll only fire you the day you stop giving me ideas and not anything else,” I recall him telling us. Today he still pushes the creative envelope with his agency Clear in the UK and he continues to inspire me and his legion of fans from Asia to America with his humour and ideas.
Pitch work: E-DM
Advertising Agency: E-DM, Art Director + Graphic Designer: Jef Tan, Creative Director + Copywriter: Lucy Ashley, Typographer: Jef Tan, Production + Assembly: Mr T. Published: 2009
