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Published on: 2/7/2006
Last Visited: 3/26/2008
Guest judges have included: Rory Sutherland, Ogilvy Interactive; Robert Campbell, McCann Erickson; Chris O'Shea, HOW; Steve Vranakis, VCCP; Trevor Beattie, TBWA GGT; Dave Alberts, Grey London; Pete Harle & Dave Woods, Claydon Heeley; Al Young, St Luke's; Jeremy Craigen, DDB London; Gerry Moira, Euro RSCG 4D; Dave Dye, Campbell Doyle Dye; Peter Souter, AMV BBDO; Brian Fraser and Simon Learman, McCann Erickson; Patrick Collister, Creative Matters; Mat Freer, Whatif innovation; Justin McGuirk; Michael Spencer, Sound Strategies; Graham Fink, M C Saatchi; Michael Nutley, New Media Age; Clive Baker, Corbis.
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After college, Alan spent three years as a commercial writer whilst creating comedy and stage-plays in his spare-time.In 1990, he enrolled in the British Design and Art Direction Workshop and was bitten by the advertising bug.He went on to write a number of famous advertising campaigns for Boots 17, IKEA, Fox's Biscuits, COI, Mothercare and BT.Alan is a founding member of St. Luke's and after his first year as Creative Director, the agency was voted Campaign's agency of the year.In January 2001 and 2002, Campaign magazine listed Alan as one of the UK's ten "hottest" Creative Directors.In 2004 Al was elected to the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising Creative forum and in 2005 he was voted onto D&AD's Executive Committee.In 2005 he also Chaired both the Newspaper Society's Creative Juice awards and Radio Advertising Bureau's Aerial Awards.
His approach to advertising attracts considerable media attention, and he is interviewed regularly by the national press, television and interviews with him have been broadcast on the Today Programme and Pick of the Week on Radio 4.
Alan is now active on the lecture circuit , runs D&AD workshops, delivered talks to MA students at St. Martin's School of Art and at the National Film Theatre.