May 16
The more you bribe, the more powerful they get.
Advertising Agency: Publicis, Bangalore, India
Art Director / Copywriter: Publicis, Bangalore, India
Illustrator: Vipin Das
May 14
Born in 1975 Chennai. Spent 8 years growing up in Africa. Returned to Chennai in 1985. Learnt to play the mridangam for 3 years. Acted in 27 full fledged theatre productions. Joined advertising in Dec 1995 as an intern. Did six years between Chennai Bangalore learning to be a copywriter. Worked in Y&R Dubai for 3 years from 2001-2004. Worked in Ogilvy Bangalore for 3 years. Started Happy in 2007 with Praveen Das. Love movies, music, design and pop art. Moonlight as a stand up comedian as The HigherIyer Show.
Why are you into Advertising?
Cos it’s the only place you get to use your creative muscles with every medium that’s exists. I also get bored easily, so it helps to keep focusing on different brands with different needs. But I didn’t know any of this when I started my career. Actually I loved commercials and asked someone who ‘thought’ of them. Someone said the agency and I decided I would learn to be a copywriter. It took me 5 years to realize what I actually wanted to do was direct ad films. Hopefully I’ll get there some day.
May 11
Brief: Planet Kids, Bangalore’s leading playschool chain wanted an invite to announce their Annual Day celebrations. This invite would be given to students and their parents. The objective was to create excitement around the event and get their kids buzzing. Oh, and of course the invite had to be cost-effective.
Solution: So we decided to create something out-of-the-ordinary, something that would engage their students and get them to transfer the buzz onto their parents. And voila, the ‘hand puppet’ invite was born out of a mere sheet of A4 sized paper. We then went on to create five unique characters so as to encourage greater curiosity, creativity and playfulness among our tiny TG.
Advertising Agency: Happy, Bangalore, India
Executive Creative Director: Kartik Iyer
Chief Creative Officer: Praveen Das
Creative Director: Carl Savio
Illustrator: Nalisha Chouraria
Art Director: Shatrughan R
Copywriter: Megha Ramesh
May 11
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai, India
National Creative Director: Rajiv Rao
Senior Creative Directors: Elizabeth Dias, Srreram Athray
Creatives: Elizabeth Dias, Srreram Athray, Savio Alva, Umma Saini, Calvin Austin, Ashish Sadare, C.V. Saju
May 09
Surveillance cameras are used to catch offenders – but they actually do much more than that. They actually PREVENT wrongdoings by simply being present. Many a dastardly thought never gets executed because of this unblinking eye of technology. CCTV cameras thus play the effective role of a thought inspector and send out a strong message: “you may think it, but don’t ever think of doing it.”
Advertising Agency: JWT, Mumbai, India
Creative Director: Ram Jayaraman
Art Director: Nishant Shah
Copywriter: Ram Jayaraman
Illustrator: Nilesh Naik
May 07
Amrita Nambiar’s fascination is captured by colours and all things art and design. She’s been in the design industry for five years and about 7 months ago decided to take a sabbatical, some time off to experiment and get back to doing some work that was more personal. Living in sleepy Pondicherry at the time she found herself with plenty of time and tons of delicious paint and colours and paper in her hands, but didnt know where to begin ! She looks for an inspirational high in books, stories, music and in other peoples work and keeps a blog of her own.
She loves to travel endlessly, goes to every concert she can and fills her home with flowers.
”When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it.” Amrita believes in dreams coming true.
Why are you an Illustrator?
Ive been drawing since I remember. I guess I cannot help but be an illustrator! I’ve been looking for ways to express myself and illustration comes most naturally to me. I get to speak without words (or very few) about things that are close to my heart, about the magic in the little things in the world around us through my drawings. And Im high when Im inspired, and that kind of exhilaration can be addictive 
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May 06
Ogilvy Mumbai
National Creative Director -Abhijit Avasthi & Rajiv Rao
Creative Director – Sameer Sojwal & Amitabh Agnihotri
Creative - Sameer Sojwal
Director – Porus Khareghat
May 04
Advertising Agency: Y&R, Dubai
Chief Creative Officer: Shahir Zag
Art Director: Sajesh Pudussery
Copywriter: William Mathovani
Creative Director / Copywriter: Shahir Zag
Creative Director/ Art Director: Kalpesh Patankar
Agency Executive Producer: Amin Soltani
Planner: Nadine Ghossoub
Agency Producer: Leng Panganiban
Photographer: Mojtaba Komeili
Retoucher: Gitten Tom
May 04
No one follows bad breath.
Which is why you need Listerine. It fights germs that cause bad breath, plaque and gum problems.
Advertising Agency: JWT, Mumbai, India
Creative Director: Ram Jayaraman
Art Director: Abey Thomas Joy
Copywriter: Karan Parmar
Illustrator: Nilesh Naik
May 03
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy, India
Executive Chairman / National Creative Director: Piyush Pandey
National Creative Directors: Rajiv Rao, Abhijit Avasthi
Executive Creative Director: Joono Simon
Creative Director: Deepak Joshi
Art Director: Vinci Raj
Copywriter: Deepak Joshi
Illustrator: Vinci Raj
Others: Nidhin , Murali
