DDB Melbourne hires new creatives Ed Howley, Toby Cummings, Chris Andrews + Luke Bartley
DDB Melbourne has expanded its creative team adding four new additions including creative team Toby Cummings (right) and Ed Howley (left) as well as Chris Andrews and Luke Bartley.
Says Darren Spiller, ECD, DDB Melbourne: “The momentum is building. We need more hands on deck.
“Nationally, we’re a big, muscular agency – that’s true, but I make it my top priority to allow my team the space that they require to produce exceptional work, and room to challenge the status quo. We have the scale of a national/international agency but my department operates like a highly innovative, boutique-creative agency – fast, agile and competitive. It’s the best of both worlds.”
Cummings and Howley started at DDB on September 2. They’re joining DDB following a two-year stint at CumminsRoss, after originally teaming up at AJF Partnership.
Recent years have seen the pair working closely with a range of clients including Jeep, RSPCA, Bearded Lady Bourbon, Fonterra and GSK across a range of categories (cars, booze and drugs).
They’re joined by Andrews (left) who has previously worked for Whybin TBWA, JWT and BMF. His work has been awarded at D&AD, OneSHow, Cannes and Clios for a variety of clients including VicRoads, Chemmart Pharmacy, Melbourne Writers Festival and AEG Powertools. Most recently his Amnesty International ‘Twignature’ campaign was featured on PSFK.com and named a highlight of the OneShow Interactive showcase.
Andrews will be partnered by Bartley who is returning from the UK to start at DDB Melbourne, on September 23. Bartley has worked at a variety of agencies in London such as RKCR/Y&R, Publicis, DARE, DDB, Havas, Inferno and DLKW Lowe.
Says Spiller: “We take our time when hiring. Each creative individual that joins is pivotal to making the larger team hum. We’re always on the look-out for interesting and talented individuals to keep the rest of us on our toes.”
23 Comments
More blokes! How typical!
Graffiti – 5 points
See you at Cecil.
Congrads Ed and Toby!
Who is left at BMF Melbourne?
Was hoping for some chicks for a change.
Need any shit kickers?
Dead giveaway.
Arms wide open people
Well done Edwardo. No doubt you and Toby will kill it there.
A great quote from Spiller: “but I make it my top priority to allow my team the space that they require to produce exceptional work, and room to challenge the status quo.”
Now there’s an ECD who knows how to structure an agency to focus squarely on the thing they produce, ideas.
Well done, boys.
The dawg abides.
Why are you leaving me? What did we do wrong?
Dunno how much ‘space’ creatives get at DDB. They certainly don’t get weekends.
I want my identity back.
@Take note You mean ideas that sell products?
On the issue of weekends, let’s get a little thread started. Since when did agencies started thinking that weekends are actual working days? I’ve been doing this for a while and sure, I’ve worked the occasional (occasional as in, infrequently) weekend to make an important client pitch happen or shooting on location. But, what the fuck is going on with some agencies out there that think that it’s OK to ask people to work weekends all the time like is nobody’s business? Do you think this is normal? Is it OK? How is it at your agency? I keep hearing of colleagues moaning about working three or four weekends in a row. So nowadays, we work our asses off all week until 10pm or midnight and on top of that, the weekends? Please share.
Want awards? Want your name known? Want to get paid a shit load of money one day? Work weekends. And work your balls (or tits) off.
that’s all well and good if you’re working on good briefs. if you’re asked to work weekends on nothing but pitches and shit, no way. these days too many friday briefs are due monday – not cool.
I have awards. I am well known. I get paid a shitload of money. And I work my balls off during the working week. Don’t actually remember when was the last time I worked a weekend. So whoever is selling you that dream, is ripping you off, son. Good luck to you, but I’m off camping with my kids this weekend. Enjoy work.
Weekends at DDB is already part of the advertising vernacular, they’ve been going on since the old ECD was there. It’s kind of the par for the course, want a job at DDB? Say goodbye to your weekends, or at least a shitload of them….no fucking way man, too old for that shit. I’m a dad now, ain’t nobody got time to spend the weekends at work, fool.
If you can’t do it between 9 and 5.30, you can’t do it.