We build brands and make ideas for global clients, small businesses and our own ventures. In 2023, we founded New York based multidisciplinary ideas company Isle of Any.
British born, with a background in Industrial Design, we moved into creative advertising in 2010. First working at JWT then at Wieden&Kennedy, London before joining Droga5, New York. Since then, we have worked with the world’s biggest brands to define their purpose and role in culture with unique ideas and campaigns that help them grow.
Our work centres around simple provocative storytelling ideas with an emphasis on prototyping, craft and making. Specialists in film, product, experience and design, our work has been been recognised internationally with multiple Cannes Grand Prix, Best in Show and D&AD Black Pencils.
As Executive Creative Directors at Droga5, we worked with many talented creatives to help set a creative culture that led to new types of ideas and work. After fifteen years at big agencies, we founded New York based Isle of Any - looking to build a new way of working and a new place for the best multidisciplinary talent to belong to.
Places we’ve worked —
Isle of Any - 2023 - Present
Droga5, New York 2015 - 2023
Wieden + Kennedy, London 2013 - 2015
JWT, London · 2011 - 2013
Studio Conran London · 2010
Smallfry · 2008 - 09
Kinnier Dufort · 2008 - 09
Clients —
The New York Times
Google
Under Armour
Nike
HBO
Christies
Honda
Instacart
LinkedIn
Meta
Three Mobile
Samsung
Facebook
Oculus
Airbnb
KerryGold
Orange
Marks & Spencer
LG
CocaCola
Lenovo
Unilever
Reckitt Benkiser
Debenhams
The Hackney Brewery
Erin O’Connor
WWF
De Beers
Care for the wild
Tesco
D&AD
Timex
Red Nose Day
Select Awards, Recognition—
D&AD Black Pencil - Writing for Advertising
D&AD Black Pencil - Film Advertising
10 x D&AD Yellow Pencil
14 x D&AD Graphite Pencil
8 x D&AD Wood
Cannes Grand Prix - Film
2 x Cannes Grand Prix - Film Craft
10 x Cannes Gold
6 x Cannes Silver
5 x Cannes Bronze
Cannes Independent Agency of the Year 16 · 19
One Show Best in Discipline
19 x One Show Gold
7 x One Show Silver
5 x One Show Bronze
AdAge Top 5 Global Creative Directors of the Year 20
AdAge Top 5 Global Creative Team of the Year 17
Top 3 Global Creative Directors - One Show 2019
AdColor 2018
AdAge Ad of the year 2021
AdAge Craft of the Year 2020
AdAge Idea of the Year 2020
AdAge ROI 20
AdWeek Agency of the Year 16
AdWeek Ad of the Year 16 · "Phelps'
AdWeek Femvertising Award
9 x Webby Winner
ADC Best in Show - Black Cube
ADC Best of Advertising
4 x ADC Gold
ADC Bronze
Shots Commercial of the year 20, 16
AICP Best in Show MOMA
4 x AICP Advertising Excellence MOMA
AICPost Best in Show
3 x AICPPost National Campaign
Amp Awards Best in Show 19
Effie Gold
Effie Silver
Effie Bronze
Andy Gold, Silver
1 x Clio Gold, 2 x Silver
Best Campaign AICE Award
IDEA Award Industrial Design Society of America · 11
2 x BluePeter badges 1995 :)
Select Press —
Time Magazine
New Yorker
New York Times
Fast Co
Guardian
Fortune
Daily Mail
The Sun
It's Nice That Annual
D&AD Annual
Sports Illustrated
CNN
BBC
ABC
Sky
Hypebeast
Vice News
Fader
Pitch China
Washington Post
NBC
Vogue
Talks, Podcasts and Exhibitions —
It’s Nice That
Nicer Tuesdays 2022
OnStrategy 2022
’Truth Campaign’
Fearless Podcast 2022
Toby & Laurie
How We Made 2020:
“The Truth is Worth it“
Tagline Podcast 2020
“Inside Under Armour Phelps'“
Speakers Contagious 2020
“The Truth is Worth It'“
Cannes Lions Live X NYT 2020
Judges D&AD Directing 2019, 2020, Judges One Show 2018
Speakers Princeton 2018
"One way to sell a painting for $450M"
Speakers TEDx 2014
"Putting Feeling in the future"
Pitch China Feature
It's Nice That Annual 2012
Campaign Magazine, 2011
'Why we love Toby & Laurie'
V&A Museum, London, 2012
Hackney Brewery Beermats Archived
Saatchi Gallery, London 2010