Steve Dunn - Advertising Jury.

BMP. Steve began he career at the then leading Creative agency in London aged 18, under leading industry figure Dave Trott. During his two years there, he had his first work accepted in D&AD annual.

Leagas Delaney. Worked as Tim Delaney’s partner for 11 years. He was appointed Head of Art at 21 and later deputy CD. During that time Leagas Delaney, for five years in succession, were statistically proved the most award winning agency in the UK across most accounts in a Campaign magazine survey. In a poll by Campaign, Steve was also voted by senior creative people to be the person they’d most like to work with.

Wieden& Kennedy. Steve was the first non-American to be Creative Director on Nike in Portland Oregon. He was nominated by Adweek in the U.S as one of the most creative stars in of the year.

Lowe Howard-Spink. Steve was one of the core five man management team as well as being Head of Art and Creative Director on all print.
Under him, the agency won more awards than they had for ten years; including three D&AD silvers, Two Cannes gold’s, Six Campaign Silver’s, One Show Silver and the agency were voted ‘Agency of the year’ at Cannes.

Ogilvy. As Executive CD and one of a four man management team, Steve led an agency that had never won awards for years and who lay 10th in the worldwide Ogilvy Creative league table, to pencils at Cannes and the One Show, silver awards at Campaign, Two D&AD nominations and over 28 entries in D&AD in two years and beat the New York office to 2nd position in the Ogilvy world table. The UK also produced a commercial voted the best in the world by any Ogilvy agency.

Moon Production Co. Following the success of a short film that was accepted by the illustrious Raindance film festival, Steve joined Moon as a Commercials Director and partner in the company where he produced commercials for amongst others Boots, The Observer and Kia Cars. He was nominated by Dan Wieden, key trade magazines and London agency BBH, as a director to watch.

JWT. In 2005 Steve was appointed Head of Art and Design of JWT London working closely with Craig Davis the Worldwide Creative Director.
In March 2006 JWT London rose to 1st place in the JWT worldwide rankings for the first time.


Personal Awards: Six D&AD pencils. Nine D&AD pencil nominations. Four Campaign Press golds, Nineteen Campaign Press silver awards, Ten Creative Circle gold awards, Twelve Creative Circle silver awards, Eight One Show golds, Six One Show silvers. Many assorted awards in Cannes, Eurobest, and Ariel etc and over 100 entries in the D&AD annual.

Clients: Adidas, Nike, Reebok, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Diesel Jeans, Tesco, Timberland, GQ Magazine, Max Factor, Couthauld Art Institute, Jazz FM, Ordnance Survey, Royal Marsden Hospital, Samaritans, Susy Lamplugh Trust, The Guardian Newspaper Group, Midland Montague, Nationwide, Arthur Andersen, Scottish Amicable, ING Barings, Royal Sun Alliance, American Express, IBM, Motorola, Eastman Kodak, B.P, Porsche, Ford, Toyota, Vauxhall. Hennessy Cognac, Stella Artois, 6X, Tetley Bitter, Smirnoff, Olympus Cameras, Phillips, Pontins, Mattel, Glaxo Smith-Klein, Vision Express, KFC, Severn Trent Water, Kraft, COI, UK Gold, Carlton Television, Kimberley Clark, Unilever. Vodafone. Knorr. Reckitt-Benkiser,
Kraft, Mazd.

Industry Views;
The subject of articles in The US, Europe, Singapore, South Africa and Australia, he is featured in the book ‘25 of the World’s Best Art Directors, has work in the archives of the V&A, has been voted the art director most senior UK industry figures wanted to work with. He has sat on many international awards juries and has been variously referred to as:
‘A brilliant creative maverick”
Famously uncompromising in his creative standards”
The most outstanding art director of his generation”
The legendary Creative Director of Ogilvy”.