Clemenger BBDO Melbourne snares former AMVBBDO London creative duo behind Trash Isles Dal Evans de Almeida and Michael Hughes
Clemenger BBDO Melbourne has announced the arrival of the creative duo behind Trash Isles, Dal Evans de Almeida and Michael Hughes to its burgeoning creative department.
Joining from AMVBBDO in London, Hughes (left) and Almeida (right) join the agency having created notable work for brands including Snickers, BT, The National Lottery, Virgin Holidays and most recently the Cannes Grand Prix winning Trash Isles.
During their time in London the pair were promoted to board members, created the world’s #1 effectiveness campaign for promoting sustainability globally in 2018, won the UK’s first ever Green Pencil at The One Show and were invited to speak at TED about the plight of plastic pollution.
Says Stephen de Wolf, CCO, Clemenger BBDO: “We’re thrilled to have Dal and Mike in the agency. Their work speaks for itself, but more importantly, the way they think and the shape of their ideas is what’s required to help us take creativity to places it’s never been before. When your ideas make it into The British Design Museum you go from making communications to making culture. We’re looking forward to seeing them achieve great things here and I’m proud that as an agency we’re able to not only nurture and retain brilliant local talent, but are seen as an attractive proposition for world-class talent from across the globe.”
Says Almeida and Hughes: “We wanted to write a funny quote. Realised we aren’t funny, so have gone with the honest approach. We love the shape of ideas that come out of Clemenger BBDO, whether it be a sculpture for road safety, an internet algorithm for an established platform or creating Never Before Barbie’s, the solutions are always innovative.
“After eight happy years in London, we were ready for new challenges and to learn from new people and Clemenger has some of the best in the business to learn from.”
18 Comments
Yes! 2 more white guys with stubble in our industry!
You’re ignorant. And your comment screams of desperation to move up without doing any work. Please try again later.
While these two “created the world’s #1 effectiveness campaign for promoting sustainability globally in 2018, won the UK’s first ever Green Pencil at The One Show and were invited to speak at TED about the plight of plastic pollution”, you moaned on Campaign Brief about their skin colour, sex and grooming habits.
You absolute cretin. Just go away and do something worthwhile.
Although, the agency did gut their whole creative department to afford to hire these well-groomed stubbly guys.
If by gutting the department you meant letting go of 3 or 4 underperforming people to make way for a couple of superstar teams, then yes. Wouldn’t you do the same?
My heart hurts
Rather than help people, coach them, you’d rather just get rid of them. Some kind of culture you have there, Clems.
Your new twins are adorable.
nice way to justify all those redundancies
get rid of pretty much all females in the dept, tick
hire two English creatives who did a nice bit of work (non commercial but it’s not like we sell stuff), tick
pay fat salaries and relocation
drop them in a conservative market and put them on the brewery or the bank
great job!
Welcome Dal and Michael,
I promise not everyone in Australia is as bitter and twisted as the Gremlins on this blog.
Hope you make some great work and inspire some creativity over at BBDO.
Clemenger are lucky to have these two.
This two lads are lovely and brilliant creatives.
Probably two characteristics that most people
Who comments on this blog don’t share.
I’m Australian, but I never bothered to work in Australia because I could never see any good work (in any media) when I visited home. It’s actually a good thing when better creatives enter the pool. Justifies you aiming to be better. And it gives you something to beat. Fine to be pissed off at people coming over and taking jobs, if you’re better than them – but the only thing Australia exports is smug overated CCO’s and people whose careers are built on fake work.
Australia is luck to have such hard working, nice people. God speed!
The new team may well be brilliant. But were I a Clemenger client, I’d prefer to hear how they changed the fortunes of a big paying client rather than how they changed their own fortunes with a probono campaign for a non-existent one.
Great to see top creative talent in Australia. Good luck lads!
Massive congrats to two brilliant creatives who absolutely deserve this role and will do great things at Clems. I’m baffled by the bitterness, pettiness and shortsightedness from those commenting on this thread, and frankly ashamed that they come from within the Australian industry.
It pains me to see the lack of creative ambition in this market, when people don’t understand the benefit of brilliant thinking like Trash Isle and how that type of thinking might actually impact a brand and sales. Good luck lads!
As they come from the home of the original Graham, the ‘natural born smoker’ of the 80’s, hopefully they’ll bring some more inspiration with them.
I would imagine they’ll find it a good deal harder to get good work out over here though.
Good luck lads, enjoy the weather and lifestyle