Me.
I attended Croydon Art College before becoming a junior typographer at Baker Tomkins in Charlotte Street, London. The following year Baker Tomkins became a part of the Facillities Group, after a brief period working at the Facillities Group, I moved to Sector light Design Consultants where I spent the next six months designing and artworking various print work.
I was contacted by my first employer – Sid Tomkins, and together we started a new typography and design consultancy called Watershed. I was made a director of the company and during the next six years we built Watershed into a respected company employing seven people.
Watershed designed for direct clients and acted as an out-source design department for several advertising agencies. One agency in particular embraced the Watershed effect, Ogilvy & Mather Paris. This is where Sid Tomkins and I met various people from the Ogilvy network and made contacts with Ogilvy London. Eventually joining Ogilvy London in 2001 and becoming part of the Ogilvy design department, which after a short time changed it's name to Watershed.
After a Creative Director and Senior Management change at Ogilvy London, I was promoted to Head of Type and Design. I changed the name of the design department at Ogilvy to ROOM in 2003 to reflect the change and my department designed for all the Ogilvy group companies. In March 2008 I went to VCCP as Head of Design. My design department now designs for VCCP, VCCP health and VCCP blue. Some of the clients I now work on include O2, easyJet and comparethemarket.
