Aderwize

Creative Chairman / Colenso BBDO

Nick studied Graphic Design in the early 80’s at St Martin’s School of Art in London. He joined BBH in London in 1986 and under the watchful eye of Sir John Hegarty produced many award winning campaigns including Levis Creek and Drugstore. After 10 years at BBH Nick joined AMV BBDO under David Abbott, and over the next 7 years created award winning work for Road Safety, Dulux, Wrangler.

In 2003 Nick joined Dave Droga on the Publicis worldwide creative board and moved to New Zealand, first as ECD at Publicis Mojo and later as ECD at Colenso BBDO in Auckland. Nick is now Creative Chairman at Colenso BBDO.

In New Zealand, the kind of work Nick and his team were doing began to change… they floated a fully working pub around the world to thirsty Kiwis in London for Speights, built a tree house restaurant for Yellow Pages, launched a Yellow-flavoured chocolate bar that outsold Snickers, created a real Dogfight over the Auckland Harbour for Spielberg’s The Pacific, created the world’s first Impulse Savings product for Westpac, used anti-terrorism software to create the first human to canine pairing software for Pedigree’s Dog Adoption Drive, and continued to pick up the odd award in the process.

(Photo credit: Alisa Connan)