Tham Khai Meng
Worldwide Creative Director
Ogilvy & Mather
About a month ago we set up a chart on our office titled Where is Khai? Which we filled out with various cellphones, and even multiple assistants as we tried to get in touch with Khai as he traveled around the globe doing “worldwidely” duties. You can’t blame him for racking [...]
Ronald Ng
Chief Creative Officer
BBDO/Proximity
Ah, Malaysia! Home of gorgeous white sand beaches, hectares of rainforest and jungles, year long summers, the oldest church in South East Asia, the world’s tallest twin towers, and on top of all that, a pretty kick ass and booming advertising industry.
One of the places leading the pack is BBDO/Proximity in Kuala Lumpur. [...]
Joonyong Park
Creative Director
Firstborn
Firstborn is a design and technology studio. This means that when places like Wieden+Kennedy, 72&Sunny or McCann San Francisco need to get the ever tricky website part of a campaign done they call on them to turn little scribbles on napkins into full blown out 1024×702 realities.
We’ve managed to track down the place’s creative [...]
Dave Bedwood
Creative Partner
Lean Mean Fighting Machine
When I caught up with Dave Bedwood, founder of London digital powerhouse Lean Mean Fighting Machine he was just getting out of a pitch that had kept him up all night in preparations. Goes to show that even the top dogs at the top agencies still put in the hours and [...]
Feh Tarty
Creative Director
Wieden+Kennedy LondonThat’s it. The evil panel that is the ANDY award’s jury has finally come out of their forced one week exile in the Mayan Riviera with all the results safely kept in what we can only assume is some sort of impenetrable vault. It is said after all that the Grandy winner ends [...]
Susan Credle
Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director
BBDO, New York
In these times where turnover rates are higher than ever it’s kind of hard to picture someone staying at the same place their whole career. Yet, believe it or not, these people do exist. Susan Credle is the perfect example of OAP (One Agency Person). She catapulted from [...]
Jureeporn Thaidumrong
President & Creative Chairwoman
JEH United
Decades ago, packaged goods companies produced their own television programs for bored housewives to enjoy. Of course there was some entertainment value in there, but its main purpose was to sell the hell out of some detergent or beauty products. They called these shows soap operas.
Fast forward to today, and I’m [...]
Carol Lam
ECD
TBWA\China, Shanghai
As far as Creatives in Asian Markets go, it doesn’t get much more successful than Carol Lam. Having spent her whole career in Hong Kong at places like Saatchi & Saatchi, Ogilvy, JWT and McCann Erickson, she felt the need to make the short trip across the border to Shanghai to head the creative [...]
Emma Hill
Creative Director
Clemenger BBDO Melbourne
This interview is part of our YGAward series, featuring the renowned judges of the 2008YGAward. Enjoy the interview, but don’t forget: the deadline for entry in the Professional and Student categories is fast approaching. Friday, October 31st to be exact. For more info, click here. Chop chop!
If you’re anything like me (and [...]
