BRADY TEAMS WITH HAWKINS AT DDB

Dave Brady has joined DDB as the new partner for award-winning copywriter Joe Hawkins, replacing former partner Emmanuel Bougneres (now at Colenso BBDO).

British-born Brady began his career in London 14 years ago, and worked on a wide variety of UK clients including Honda, Zanussi, Virgin (Holidays), Eurosport, New Zealand Lamb and MTV.

He moved to Draft FCB Auckland in 2004 and has most recently been creative lead on BMW, New World and Whitcoulls. He has also worked on campaigns for Prime, Robert Harris, Greggs and the Families Commission “It’s not OK” campaign.

Additionally, Brady also picked up a silver Lion at Cannes for a self-illustrated campaign for Little Boys Sausages. This work was also featured in Communication Arts and added to the Museé de la Publicité French National Poster Collection in Paris.

DDB executive creative Ddirector Toby Talbot described Brady as “an extremely talented illustrator, typographer and art director – a really versatile creative who can turn his hand to pretty much anything.

“This is a guy who raised eyebrows by clamping a clamping van in the middle of London, generated media attention with a campaign to install a pedestrian fast lane on Oxford Street and created a boy band out of Polish fishermen for MTV. We’re expecting interesting things….”