What I Do
Creative Direction | Design Thinking | Market Positioning | Retail Interior Design | Packaging & Customer Comms | Design Development and Delivery for Premium Retail Brands
HISTORY
Described as “what you’d call an old-school creative who looks at the world through a modern lens. With seemingly more hours in the day available to him than the average man.” I spend my time heading up M/B/S a London-based design agency working with a select group of clients in the premium retail sector and as Creative Director of Kirk Originals, one of premium menswear’s most respected eyewear brands.
SECTOR EXPERTISE
Fashion | Accessories | Hospitality | Lifestyle
MANIFESTO
Creative ideas rooted in a strong historical context / Design as an integral part of business strategy / Customer focused and commercially astute / A passion for the handmade, premium manufacturing, and materiality / Strong storytelling and narrative at the heart of any creative idea / Creativity balanced with robust delivery and implementation methods
CLIENT LIST
Acne Studios /Aquazzura / Matchesfashion / Barker Shoes / Lotus Cars / Hugo Boss / Dunhill / Valentino / Richard James / Edward Green / Kirk Originals / Kurt Geiger / Quo Vadis / Rimowa / British Airways / Begg & Co. / Bicester Village / Joseph / Neals Yard Remedies / The Fine Cheese Co. / Reiss / Ernest Jones / The Crown Estate / Land Securities
CULTURAL HEROES
Robert Brownjohn / Roxy Music / David Hicks / Robert Mitchum / George Lois / Eddie Cochran / Richard Avedon / Paul Newman / Gio Ponti / Errol Flynn / George Nakashima / Dean Martin / Richard Neutra / Irving Penn / David Ogilvy / Saul Bass / Gio Ponti / Martin Scorsese / Sam Cooke / Oscar Niemeyer / Saul Leiter / Billy Connolly / Billy Fury / Jack Lemmon / Richard Hamilton / Ivan Morrison / John Ford / Donald Wexler / Alexy Brodovitch / Constantin Brancusi / Walter Matthau