GPY&R, Melbourne promotes Jim Ingram and Ben Couzens to deputy creative directors
GPY&R senior creative team Jim Ingram (left) and Ben Couzens (far left) have been promoted to deputy creative directors of the Melbourne office. The pair have enjoyed a stellar three years at the agency, creating multiple internationally recognized campaigns – most notably VB’s ‘Symphony’ and Schweppes ‘Burst’, which was recently recognized by the Gunn report as the 2nd most awarded commercial in the world this year.
Says ECD Ben Coulson: “We’ve known for a while how good these blokes are with ideas, but they have genuinely surprised with their creative leadership. Jim and Cuz have worked bloody hard and are absolutely up for this challenge. Staff respect them and clients listen to them. They are going to make great CD’s. Who knows, they might even start wearing shirts soon”.
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Well done guys!
MAMMOTH!
I love you guys.
Tom of Finland
So hot right now!
Great work old friends!
onya boys!
nice gun show ingram.
Well done jimmy & cuzzy.
Not bad for a couple of kids from the country with stars in their eyes and a pocketful of dreams…
Well deserved.
Awesome news friiieeeeeeeenddds.
Awesome news and well deserved. Congrats gents.
I want to be on you.
BLOODY AWESOME NEWS
The one in the middle is hawt.
arsome to the power of radcool
I like the healthy looking one…
Wicked Styx !!
That’s rad to the power of sick.
Come, Get your J Squad!
Grats
Hibs
Well done chaps.
Jiim, you can now buy the real version of that fake watch you’re wearing.
Awesome news and well deserved.
Maximum respect Ingrams and El Cuzo.
Capital
Can someone please clarify what ‘creative leadership’ is? Isn’t it just doing good work, which is why they are being given the promotion?
Jiztastic.
Az
Onya boys.. keep the spirits high
Dear 3:11,
Creative Directors normally have to lead (or ‘direct’) a team of what can only be described as ‘individuals’, eccentric, precious, passionate bastards that are usually a little bit nuts.
This involves finding peoples individual strengths and weaknesses, inspiring them when the chips are down, motivating them to always do better without telling them they are shit, considering their view-point and making decisions accordingly.
It’s called people management and unless you want to do all the work yourself, or work in a two person creative department, it’s a good skill to have.
Good Creative Directors rarely do good work, they inspire it, whether or not they play a major or minor role in creating it.
Kind of the difference between ‘Creative’ and ‘Creative Director’.
Yours truly,
Patronising Prick.
Someone had to be a bitch. Well done 3:11.
And well done guys.
I’m with 3:11. It sounded pompous.
Dear Patronising Prick,
What you have described as a ‘creative director’ is consumate fantasy and illustrates either a deep missunderstanding of day to day life in an advertising agency, or an unreciprocated supposition of your superiors that is bordering on servility.
Great to see an openly gay couple breaking through the glass ceiling.
Hey 3:11, All these guys care about is good work and motivating others. ( and nude pics of men, rock music and bikes.) You obviously know their work but just as obviously, do not know them.
They are where it’s at, friends. They are where it is at!
It’s so good to see an openly gay couple rocking the casbah
LIttle nipples
Really well done guys! Love your work.
The dynamics within the GPY&R creative department will become interesting. Once a pairing as successful and talented as this gets promoted as they have, who really has the right to make the call on their work?
@2:59…Um, their boss you retard.
There’s the obvious answer, 2:26, and the more penetrating point that’s being made that, clearly, you totally missed, fucktard!
I’m with 2:26 becuase, 2:59, that is a trully retarded attempt at a loaded question.
Wow, you saw my ‘retard’ and raised me a ‘fucktard’. Delightful. What a battle of wits this is turning into.
I like it. Fucktard is to Retard what Billion is to Million.
So what’s the next level – the Trillion?
Cuntard?
Cuntard, anyone?
Worst. Hat. Ever.