Welcome to our Bloodbank. Working with us means you’re open-minded and ready to try something different. Bloodbank seeks inclusivity within the creative arena for people of colour, sexuality, age and ability. Bloodbank does not affiliate with any form of discrimination, other than the quality of our copy and ideas.
Rob: Native English copywriter / Creative Director/ D&AD judge / Cannes Gold & Silver / Author: Paddy ‘Effing Gallagher. Problem solver. Passionate about tech, fmcg, and helping others to become b-corp certified. Confused father of two.
Our man Timo/German Copywriter/Creative Director and charming with it/20+ years of experience for customers like Deutsche Telekom, Audi, Fleurop, Adidas, Friedrichstadt-Palast, Heineken, VW or the German Tennis Federation / He loves food, running marathons, strange music and the world / His writing also transforms to art and literature, so if you ever need a ghost writer or have an empty wall, that’s him too.
Meet Élisabeth. Our French copywriter based in Munich, Germany. Specialised skills: Advertising, translation, transcreation and PR for sports, foods & beverages health, real estate, tourism, fashion, cosmetics, IT and automotive. SEO and human-optimised copy. As a copywriter and basketball player, she makes a great creative and reliable partner. Besides sports and reading great feminist books, she loves vegan cooking, rhythm and poetry, chess, as well as LGBTIQ+ activism. She has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the University of Jean Moulin and she’s not afraid to use it.
Damian is a native Spanish speaking copywriter/creative director, with 15+ years of experience working for agencies and clients all around the world. Along his career, he had stints at ad agencies like 72andSunny, AKQA and Virtue Amsterdam, Oliver, Spark44 and W+K London, The Many and 180LA, BBH and Ogilvy NY, Leo Burnett Chicago, &Rosas Barcelona and JWT, Publicis and DDB Buenos Aires. Damian has been involved in a wide range of projects for global brands, such as adidas, Samsung, Benetton, Carlsberg, Land Rover, Jaguar, Ford, Volkswagen, Renault, Purina, Bridgestone, Movistar, Salvation Army and Unicef, among others.
Some projects were awarded in prestigious advertising festivals, like Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, LIA Awards, Ciclope Festival, New York Festivals, Effie Awards, Spikes Asia, FIAP, Wave, Ojo de Iberoamérica and Diente (Argentinian Creative Circle).
Robin. Dutch copywriter. More than 20 years of experience with agencies in New York, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Antwerp and Brussels. More than 70-awards and nominations for international clients like Vodafone, Zalando, Mercedes, Opel, Fanta, IKEA and The Red Cross. Robin was born in Holland and lives in Hamburg. He's is a conceptual creative specialized in writing scripts for radio, TV and online films. Besides that, he's also a passionate swing dancer.
Tim: An Australian copywriter, creative and communications strategist based in Amsterdam. Global industry experience since 2001, working both client and agency side. Brands include Uber, Vodafone, adidas, Reebok, Philips, AkzoNobel, Toshiba, Symantec and multiple start-ups. Passionate about all things digital, and dedicated to building brands through TOV development, creative strategy, copywriting and conceptual innovation.
Fanny is an art director with over 10 years of experience in video, photography and CGI. Global campaigns, digital, social, big brands or small stuff that needs a big idea + love. Fanny thinks before she moves, defying all the odds to come up with dazzling ideas. She has the utmost of charm and leads clients in the right direction. Fanny is always bright, cheerful, and top of her game.
Peter / Creative Director / Art Director / Photographer / Premium brand builder with entrepreneurial mindset and an instinctive understanding of what makes people tick. 20 years of experience on both agency as client side for global brands like G-star Raw, Scotch & Soda, Twitter, Netflix and Samsung. Creates award winning, exciting and refreshing work with a certain aesthetic edge. Loves to work in a collaborative way with a passion for craft.
Nicolette—MBA Qualified Business Lead. Marketing Professional/Project Director. I’m the one who truly listens to client needs and understands the careful balance of entrepreneurial thinking, strategy and creative, amongst other things required to deliver tangible business results. I’ve led teams in creating award-winning campaigns for ASICS and who’ve developed new mobility brands for the Volkswagen Group, with agencies ranging from Saatchi & Saatchi to Design Bridge.
This is Brenda the Photographer’s work. Brenda photographs people. Creates the impossible from AI imagery. In a studio or on location. With regular light or colored gels. She shoots real people without any camera experience as well as real models. And she has been doing this for the past 15 years. Mostly for advertising campaigns.
HAVE THE COURAGE TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART AND INTUITION. THEY SOMEHOW KNOW WHAT YOU TRULY WANT TO BECOME.
STEVE JOBS
Marieke van den Biggelaar. Illustrator/Animator. Brings ideas to life with unique character creations, innovative animation, and technical pioneering. Rabbit aficionado. Bright colours. Igniting visual direction fused with passionate storytelling.
Stacey Yates / Documentary Photographer / Creative Producer / Human-centred stories. I see both my personal + commercial work as a record of human culture and experience. With each brief, I look for the visual opportunities for human connection and make my best work when I’m empowering my subjects. I seek the potential for deeper storytelling at all stages of production, embedding authenticity and believability into our scenes. My photography work often involves people who don’t model professionally, so I take the time to understand their story, putting people at ease and guiding them towards confidence and enjoyment. My overall shooting style is a focused balance of professionalism, empathy, creativity and intuition making for energetic, fun and fluid shoot days.
Becky Elliott; Branding Specialist / Graphic Designer / Event Assistant. Talented in merging all creative elements into multi level brand experiences that are tangible and sensorial. Experienced with international and national clients for corporate to small start-ups; covering brand identity, retail environments, spatial and experiential design projects. Love to create everything from brochures to wayfinding, from events to websites, and everything in between! ... there is nothing better than a consistent look and feel to a brand!
‘TELL ‘EM ABOUT THE HONEY, MUMMY’
JOHN WEBSTER
Simon Neate-Stidson: Strategist. Marketing & Brand Strategy / Customer Insights / Creative Campaign Development / Strategic Workshops.
20+ years experience with dozens of global (and a few smaller) brands and top-drawer agencies.
I believe that Simple is Never Simple. Asking difficult questions, finding great answers, making difficult but necessary choices. I’ll deliver clear direction and refreshing inspiration to help build your brand and your business.
Jan Reid set up Mystery Interiors & Furniture in 1998 and has 30 years experience as an Interior Architectural designer and bespoke furniture designer. Each project is unique and Jan has access to the best UK workshops and a skilled building team for a full Design and build service. Priding herself in creating beautiful interiors but at affordable prices. She works only through recommendation to maintain exclusivity for her clients.
Floris Hülsmann, naming expert. Creates names for anything that needs an unforgettable name. After 20-years working as an award winning copywriter he now focuses on the craft of finding that one special word to fit the brand, company or service. He even wrote a book about it.
‘THE MOST POWERFUL ELEMENT IN ADVERTISING IS THE TRUTH’
BILL BERNBACH
Paul Falla / Creative Director / Copywriter / Interior Designer / Over 30 years of experience in advertising, digital communication and design. Worked for more than 300 clients in London, Amsterdam and Shanghai, winning 45 national and international awards. Most amazing experience? Helping Eastern brands go West and Western brands go East.
Rikki Khanna. Strategy. I help brands find their meaning and bring themselves to life. I do this both internally and externally through a mix of actions, communications, innovation and other initiatives. I believe that only by understanding a brands relationship with people, society, culture and technology can a brand find its true relevance. I most recently did this for a variety of Volkswagen Group brands - in particular helping develop innovation projects related to ride sharing and Autonomous Driving. I did this through my former agency, Khanna\Reidinga, which I founded in 2012. Khanna\Reidinga also helped brands such as Vodafone, TomTom, Starbucks and NN Group find their inner purpose and express it through beautiful communications. Prior to venturing out on my own I spent 11 years as a senior manager at AKQA with stints London, Washington DC, San Francisco and Amsterdam where I was part of the team that won awards including the Advertising Age Agency of the Year and a Gold Cannes Lion for my last campaign for Heineken. Other brands I worked with include Nike, Xbox and Orange.
Tim James Brown. Freelance Film Director. After 12-years as agency creative, Tim was inspired to get behind the camera himself to become a director. Tim’s mum was extremely proud when he won The Times Sports Brand of The Year award for legendary ‘Bring on the Superhumans’. Tim’s innate knack for casting subtle performances and observed comedy have since garnered him awards at D&AD, Cannes, Creative Circle, and The Big Awards - with a GOLD at the British Television Advertising Awards for the Best Use Of Casting. His ‘Samsung Monkey’ spot has over 6 million hits on YouYube, something his late great uncle, the writer/painter D.H. Lawrence would not have approved of.
Carmel Papa / Junior UX and UI designer / Carmel is a junior designer that has a fresh perspective on the craft, understands the behavior of the user and creates no-nonsense, well substantiated products.
Dave Snijders Creative / Creative Director / Art director. For 20-years and counting Dave has loved his job. Creative Direction, Art Direction, Design, creating as such, he bridges ideas and aesthetics, with a strong passion for photography and film. He has worked internationally on a large bandwidth of brands, both client and agency side. Solo or as part of a team, he strives to create what ticks the box and beyond, in a dedicated, yet time effective manner.
‘BRING ME THE HEAD OF DAVID OGILVY’
JAY CHIAT
Gregg Harper. Award-winning Art direction and concept development. Digital savvy. Strategic. Storyteller. Won awards. Creative thinker. International accounts, Global campaigns. Creative lead. All true I suppose. With over 25-years in advertising, four global networks, a couple of hot shops, Canon, Burger King, Land rover, Nike, Volvo, group head, CD, ECD, London, New York, Amsterdam, Budapest. In my words.
Rye Fanoni. Creative visualiser. Combining CGI, retouch and illustration with methodical and knowledgeable production skills. • Visualisation and concept generation at the design stage. Master image generation and Art Direction at the production phase. 20 years of agency and in-house experience.
Cindy Rekman. Project manager / Account manager / Producer / Design manager / Event manager. She thrives on handling big projects with small teams and tight deadlines. This can be anything from a multimedia campaign to an event or packaging and store design. Over 15 years of experience at agency and client side. When not working for other people’s brands, she creates designs and prints them on T-shirts to set up her own brand CINNIG.
Jamie O’Donnell / Creative Director / Retail Experience Designer – O’Donnell Retail Experience Currently consulting for Footasylum (UK) & FITCH (Hong Kong) Clients include; Fanatics / Philips / Footasylum / Adidas / Virgin / Fiskars / Levis / Fred Perry / Blackdog Ballroom. With over 20 years experience in retail & hospitality design working in London, Manchester, Amsterdam & Dubai for agencies such as Start & The Shopper agency as well as working brand side at Tommy Hilfiger & Footasylum, I have an insightful perspective of both sides of the fence. I feel your pain whoever you are. I’ve also design retail experiences in 6-different continents. My passion is the physical space and the creation of experiences set within it, from shopping malls to shelves.
Wendy Byrne Copywriter, Editor, Proofreader, Translator. A self-confessed word nerd, I've been obsessed with language for a long time. As a French major at Smith College in the States, I took a life-changing year of study abroad in Paris, my first experience living in a foreign language. (Well, second if you count my father's thick and sometimes incomprehensible Irish accent). I was born and raised in the U.S, but have lived in Amsterdam most of my adult life. Trilingual English-French-Dutch, I am a flexible copywriter, proofreader and editor in both American & British English, and a reliable translator of French or Dutch into English. Nice to meet you.
‘PEOPLE DON’T BUY WHAT YOU DO
THEY BUY WHY YOU DO IT’
SIMON SINEK
Brian is a US expat and award-winning human experience designer, working 17 years on digital products in healthcare, blockchain, IoT, and fintech. He's teamed up with companies like Philips, ING, Land Life Company, KLM, and GeoIQ. His specialties include digital prototyping, behavioral design, and UX strategy. Brian has given talks and workshops in 11 countries, and his first book, The Creative Empathy Field Guide, will be released this December.
Remy Kurpershoek - Independent Creative Director, has been awarded both national and international recognition, judged for several occasions and given his professional advice directly to clients while also working within creative shops. Today he strives to find new ways to engage and entertain consumers in ‘tra-digital’ ways and in doing so, solves the business problems of progressive clients.
Adela Mihu. Freelance Graphic Designer since 2005. Two decades of experience working with global brands (Heineken, TomTom, Philips, Unilever), advertising agencies (180, Strawberryfrog, JWT, Make Amsterdam) or small brands with a big vision. Artist at heart, with a passion for design and mathematics, and a perfectionist on top. Independent thinker who prefers quality over quantity. Deep understanding of printing process, user experience and web development, excellent work ethic and love for the craft.
‘YOU CAN DROP THE LUNCH AT THE SAVOY FOR STARTERS’
ANON
Craig Lovelidge AKA Craigology Consulting. First and foremost it’s about you, your immediate challenges and future aspirations. Is your brand (or are you) truly stuck or do you just need a nudge to get things back on track. Talk, listen, make a plan of accountable action. From problem solving workshops to product development and so much in-between.
Angus and Gary love hatching big ideas that travel well. We’ve done our best for clients as diverse as the UK government, to middle-eastern airlines – from newspapers to the New Zealand Navy – from headache pills to yellow fats – from…the list goes on. We’ve worked on anything any brief can throw at us – whether it’s apps, social, activation, design or global TV…and there we go with the lists again.
We are Jesse Kroon & Thom Schrama. A combination of a creative film director and a commercial photographer. Multiple perspectives. Driven to be distinctive. Humbled to be in the presence of these great names and ready to make our mark.
‘WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
IT’S THE MOMENT BEFORE YOU NEED MORE HAPPINESS.’
DONALD DRAPER
