MY CAREER

 

Started career at Saatchi and Saatchi in the 80’s when the Conservative Party were producing their most iconic work that saw them take office under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. Worked on British Airways, IBM and EMI.

 

Joined Leagas Delaney, a new agency renowned for its creative excellence. Worked on accounts from Nationwide Anglia to Tetley Bitter and won several awards for writing.

 

Joined Still Price Court Twivy D’Souza who merged with the much larger agency Lintas. Became a Group Head. Worked on many high profile campaigns from Abbey National and Virgin Airlines and charitable campaigns for London Association for the Blind and the launch of the Big Issue with Anita and Gordon Roddick.

 

Became a board member at Still Price Lintas and was voted one of the ‘Faces to Watch’ in 1990 by the industry’s leading magazine Campaign.

 

Was followed by a channel 4 team watching the process of putting a commercial together for the famous British drink Pimm’s.

 

Joined Simons Palmer Denton Clemmow and Johnson. Worked on Nike, Sony Playstation, The Sun newspaper, The British Heart Foundation and the drinks company Marston’s, winning a plethora of awards.

 

Joined Collett Dickenson Pearce as Creative Director. Helped them restore their reputation with award winning work on Hamlet Cigars, Benson and Hedges, Scottish and Newcastle, Honda and the cash payment card Switch.

 

Tempted back to Simons Palmer as Creative Director and they merged with the network agency TBWA. Made European Creative Director on Sony Playstation a nd wrote the highly awarded film for Nike called ‘Parklife’ which was recognised in the TV programme ‘Ads that Changed the World’ and made number 15 in the Sunday Telegraph’s Greatest Ads of the Millennium.

 

Moved on to Britain’s most awarded agency Abbott Mead Vickers working on award winning accounts The Economist, Sainsbury’s, Mars, WHSmith and Howies.

 

Started own agency called Malcolm Moore Deakin Blazye. From a standing start, the agency turned over a 6 figure profit in the first year. Accounts included MTV and VH1, British Bakeries, Accurist Watches, Howies and Toni&Guy.

 

Was bought by the agency Faulds of Edinburgh and worked on Royal Bank of Scotland, Kwik Fit and the Scottish Executive accounts. Moved to Wieden and Kennedy London to be re-united with the Nike and Honda accounts and returned to the D&AD annual with his work celebrating Arsenal's achievement of going an entire season unbeaten in the Premiership.

 

Joined Leo Burnett as a Creative Director. Whilst there, won awards for the Department for Transport including the Drink Drive and Child and Teen Road Safety initiatives, the Learning and Skills Account and McDonald’s which he won the most awards globally in the restaurant category for his 'Just Passing By' films. The integrated campaign also won the inaugral Cannes Gold for Creative Effectiveness'. Was also Creative Director on the Kellogg’s account overseeing the Crunchy Nut Flakes and Coco Pops brands.

 

Moved to the USA to join DDB Chicago as Executive Creative Director on McDonald’s North America producing ground-breaking work that saw the McDonald's content for World Cup 2014 voted  the favourite ad of the tournament in an online survey.

 

Co-founded WMG in Dubai. Clients included Costa, Quintessentially, Burj Al Arab, Damas Jewellers, UAE Exchange and Quaker.

 

Presently involved in educational app development to make learning of the English language fun for kids, called 'The Tales of Aarchie'. Has recently worked at Pharmaceutical agencies Ogilvy Healthworld, TBWA WorldHealth and been freelancing at Y&R LDN, Ogilvy and Mather & Spark44. His line 'We cross the T's, dot the I's and put U in the middle', helped Y&R LDN retain the TUI business in a pitch. He has helped OHW win business from GSK and Ascensia.

 

He now works on a freelance basis through his own company Malcolm Creative Ltd, producing ads for various agencies and writing books.

 

 

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