Zimbabwean born Grant Parker trained as an Art Director at Hunt Lascaris TBWA in Cape Town, before moving to London in 1998. He started at BMP DDB 11 years ago. He has worked with Patrick McClelland, and then Joanna Wenley on campaigns for Nikon, Heals, Harvey Nichols, the Guardian, Volkswagen, Marmite, Philips. And a less successful campaign for a foreign Tourist Board. He has been the Head of Art at DDB London since September 2006.
My wife and I are being treated to The Rake’s Progress at Glyndebourne as a wedding present. Apparently the hero leaves the simple country life in the “vain pursuit of big-city bonuses and increasingly exotic pleasures (climaxing in a loveless marriage to the bearded lady from a local fair) and ends up bankrupt and insane in Bedlam”. They don’t write them like they used to…
I think they really do understand what I do. My Dad often tries to write ads for me.
Levon Helm from The Band (on the cover of their 1969 album, The Band – there I am second from the left). My mom, but with a beard (there seems to be a theme developing).
Taste. Confirmed just the other day by my first ever packet of Skips!
As hard as I try, I simply can’t catch.
Yes. Miss Fourie was a true inspiration.
There are so many… Glinebourne for starters.
Apparently there are more people alive today, than have ever died.
Learning to catch.
Landscape gardening.
This has been doing the rounds, so you I’m sure you will have seen it already. But, it’s Friday and it’s definitely worth seeing again and again. Written and directed by MJ, and shot in one day for £100 – the most expensive thing was the sandwiches she bought for everyone on the shoot from Morrisons. “Keep your Big Apple, we’ll have a tangerine.” It’s genius.
I first saw Rachel’s work at the Royal Collage degree show. She is such an inspiring artist, making everything from a simple cardboard box with an exquisite painted landscape inside it, to her highly detailed pencil drawings or her plaster sculptures with laser copies laid on top. Such magical work.
I’m helping re-design the agency’s reception area at the moment, and luckily found these guys. They’re based in Pembrokeshire, West Wales. I love their collapsible chair.
A really great book by Richard Brereton (Laurence King publishing). Some of the sketchbooks are truly inspiring – if a little intimidating (I wish I could draw). This picture is by Fuel, a London based design group.
A London based design duo. Apart from being friends of mine, their recent World Cup project is truly inspiring. 25 themed dinners for each match. Apart from clearly being brilliant chefs, they are truly inspiring designers too.
