Top creative team for DDB Sydney

Top creatives Paul Sharp and Mike Burdick will join the DDB Sydney creative department in August as senior art director and senior copywriter working across a number of clients including Wrigley’s and Unilever.

“Put simply, Paul and Mike are among the best creatives in the country and we’re absolutely thrilled and privileged to be welcoming them to the DDB Sydney team,” said Matt Eastwood, DDB national creative director. “They have been responsible for some of my favourite creative work over the past 12 months including the Boags Draught ‘Pipeline’ campaign which was one of the few Australian campaigns accepted into D&AD this year.”

Adds Mark Harricks, creative director DDB Sydney: “The addition of Pauland Mike will bring an exciting new perspective to the DDB Sydneycreative team, their flair for creating world-class campaigns will nodoubt make an invaluable contribution to DDB’s clients.”

Sharp has produced internationally-recognised work in Sydney and beforethat in London across a broad range of clients including Honda,Coca-Cola, Masterfoods and Toyota, and has picked up a Silver Lion atCannes among other awards. More recently he has been working as acontractor for agencies including Three Drunk Monkeys, The Glue Societyand Publicis Mojo.

Burdick has created internationally-recognised TV, print and integratedcampaigns at Ground Zero, Fallon, Saatchi & Saatchi and PublicisMojo on a wide range of clients including Toyota, Sega, Nordstrom, LionNathan and Procter & Gamble.

Says the team: “DDB is a consistently exciting agency and has a stronglong-term vision for moving forward, so we’re nothing short of thrilledto be joining such an inspirational team.”