Creative Director. Generalist with Specialist Tendencies.
Major life update. I’m coming home.
After nearly 20 years in ol’ London town, I’m heading back to Sydney this October.
And judging by what’s happened to house prices, I’m going to need to stay gainfully employed for the foreseeable.
The UK has been very kind to me. I’ve had the chance to work at some brilliant agencies. Some you’ll know, like Mother, Uncommon and Saatchi & Saatchi. Others you won’t. Not that they weren’t brilliant too.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been helping Special to plant its flag in Europe.
A decade as a creative director has taught me how far you can push a brief and get away with it.
I’ve built an imaginary Tube line for Audible, turned fashion influencers into desert explorers and connected a 200mph race car to the internet.
It’s also given me plenty of practice bringing together people with very different kinds of brains and pointing them in the same direction.
I’m grown-up enough to lead teams, sharpen ideas and help ambitious work get over the line. But I’m equally happy on the tools and in the weeds.
For a blow-by-blow account of my career, head to LinkedIn.
Or if you’re looking for an Aussie creative director with a slight British twang, drop me a line at simon@bird.me.
My future mortgage depends on it.