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Christian is currently National Head of Design at CHEP - part of BBDO Wordwide. He leads the design offering of the agency - coaching and mentoring a team of 25+ multi disciplinary designers - to create world class brands, campaigns, digital products and experiences.
Highlights at CHEP include a Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Samsung’s ‘Flipvertising’ campaign, Full Service Agency of the Year at 2023 Mumbrella Awards and Australian Effective Agency of the Year at the 2023 Effie Awards. He is a recipient of the agency's annual Peter M. Harvie Employee of the Year award.
He places great emphasis in developing talent - with his team members winning the Design category of the Cannes Young Lions Australia competition in 2023 and 2024, as well as placing in the Emerging Designer of the Year category at the AGDA Awards two years in a row - with Distinction and Pinnacle awards respectively.
Prior to CHEP he was Head of Design at Streamtime, a SaaS product imagining the future of project management software for creative businesses. His work here was recognised with a Webby Award for Web Services & Applications in 2020 and was awarded Best In Show at the 2019 W3 Awards.
Over the course of his career he has worked at some of the world’s most forward thinking agencies, including R/GA and Huge/Elephant, for the likes of Apple, Google, Nike, Beats, YouTube, Playstation, Lego, Electronic Arts and Red Bull. A first class honours graduate of the pioneering digital hybrid degree BSc (Hons) MediaLab Arts. He has instructed at General Assembly, tutored at AWARD School and mentored for IxDA.
His work focuses on team leadership, creative direction and connected design practices for innovative brands, products, services, campaigns and experiences. He has been awarded at D&AD, Cannes, One Show, Cleo, IAB, Midas, AWARD, FWA, AGDA and The Webbys.
Creative team leadership, coaching and mentoring / Design Thinking / Idea generation / Concept development / Creative direction / Art direction and Visual design / Brand Identity design / Product and Service design / Information Architecture / UX and UI design / Interaction, motion design & animation / Rapid prototyping
CHEP Network
National Head of Design
July 2021 – Present
General Assembly
Instructor
September 2018 – December 2022
Freelance
For The People, Made Active, Circle In
Design Lead / Creative Director
May 2020 – July 2021
Streamtime
Head Of Design
September 2018 – May 2020
Freelance
For The People, Huge/Elephant, McCann, Geronimo
Design Lead / Creative Director
August 2017 – September 2018
R/GA
Associate Creative Director
October 2015 – July 2017
Senior Art Director
April 2014 - October 2015
Host Sydney
Digital Art Director
May 2011 – April 2014
Freelance
Moon Design, Future Büro, Design Royale, Host Sydney, Us Sydney, Lavender, Pollen
Digital Art Director
September 2008 – May 2011
Fluoro
Senior Digital Creative
July 2006 – April 2008
Freelance
Amnesia Razorfish, Fluoro, The Farm, Grey3
Senior Interactive Designer
August 2005 – July 2006
Bostock and Pollitt
Interactive Designer
August 2003 – July 2005
E-scape Interactive
Interactive Designer
September 2002 – January 2003
Junior Interactive Designer
July 2000 – July 2001
BSc(Hons), MediaLab Arts
University of Plymouth
1st Class
1998 – 2002
User Experience Design
General Assembly
2018
CHEP Network
2023 Mumbrella Awards - Full Service Agency Of The Year Winner
2023 Effie Awards - Australian Effective Agency of the Year Winner
2023 B&T Awards - Digital Transformation Agency of the Year Winner
2023 B&T Awards - Branding/Design/CX Agency of the Year Finalist
Queensland Health ‘Sunshine’
@ CHEP Network
2024 Spikes Asia - Gold x 1
Melbourne Holocaust Museum ‘Piece by Piece’
@ CHEP Network
2024 Spikes Asia - Finalist x 1
2023 AGDA Awards - Merit x 1, Finalist x 2
2023 AMaGA Awards - Highly Commended
CHEP ‘Hot & Cold Book’
@ CHEP Network
2023 AGDA Awards - Finalist
Samsung ‘Reverse Auction’
@ CHEP Network
2023 Cleo Awards - Silver x 3
2023 One Show Awards - Merit
2023 Cannes Lions - Finalist
2023 AWARD Awards - Bronze x 2
2023 Mumbrella Awards - Highly Commended
2023 B&T Awards - Finalist x 3
2023 Australian Effie Awards - Bronze
Samsung ‘Flipvertising’
@ CHEP Network
2023 Cannes Lions - Grand Prix x 1, Silver x 2, Bronze x 1
2023 D&AD Awards - Wood Pencil x 2
2023 Cleo Awards - Gold x 1, Silver x 2, Bronze x 2
2023 One Show - Gold x 1, Silver x 1, Bronze x 1
2023 Webby Awards - Official Honoree
2023 AWARD Awards - Gold x 4, Silver x 3, Bronze x 1
2023 Spikes Asia - Grand Prix x 2, Gold x 3, Bronze x 1
2023 Australian Effie Awards - Gold
2023 Mumbrella Awards - Winner
2023 B&T Awards - Winner
ACA ‘Create Space’
@ CHEP Network
2022 AGDA Awards - Finalist x 3
CHEP ‘Website’
@ CHEP Network
2022 AGDA Awards - Finalist
Samsung ‘Z Flip Denim’
@ CHEP Network
2022 Caples - Silver
Streamtime
2020 Webby Award - Winner
2019 Webby Award - Official Nominee
2019 W3 Awards - Best In Show
JSHealth ‘Love Your Body’
@ Geronimo
2019 AMY Awards - Finalist
Google ‘The Google App x The Voice’
@ R/GA
2017 AdNews - Media Campaign of the Year
2017 Mumbrella Awards - Finalist
2017 Festival Of Media APAC - Bronze
2017 AMY Awards - Finalist
2017 B&T Awards - Finalist x 3
Nike ‘Mercurial Speed Room’
@ RGA
2017 AWARD Awards - Finalist x 2
2017 Mumbrella Awards - Finalist
2017 AMY Awards - Finalist
Macquarie Group ‘We’re Brainsourcing’
@ R/GA
2017 Australian Retail Banking Awards - Winner
ANZ ‘MoneyMinded Mondays’
@ R/GA
2016 Midas Awards - Gold x 2
Air New Zealand ‘The Kiwi Sceptics’
@ Host Sydney
2012 Cannes Lion - Bronze
2012 Spikes Asia - Grand Prix
2012 AWARD Awards - Bronze x 1, Silver x 1
2012 ADMA - Silver
2012 Caxtons - Winner
2012 Mobious - Certificate
2012 Kinsale Sharks - Gold
2012 Adfest - Silver
2013 IAB Australia Awards - Finalist
Lego ‘Festival Of Play’
@ Host Sydney
2013 IAB Australia Awards - Finalist
2012 AWARD Awards - Bronze
Billabong ‘I Surf Because'
@ Design Royale
2011 Webby Award - Official Honoree x 2
2010 AWARD Awards - Bronze
2010 FWA - Site Of The Day
2010 IAB Creative Showcase - Silver
V Australia ‘4320 LA/Sydney’
@ Future Büro / Droga5
2010 D&AD Awards - Yellow Pencil
2010 Cannes Cyber Lions - Bronze
2010 One Show Interactive - Merit
2010 Webby Awards - Official Honoree
Virgin Mobile ‘Right Music Wrongs’
@ Future Büro / Droga5
2010 D&AD Awards - Wood Pencil x 2
2010 Webby Awards - Official Honoree x 2
2009 Cannes Cyber Lions - Silver
2009 AWARD Awards - Silver x 1, Bronze x 1
Electronic Arts ‘SimCity DS’
@ Fluoro
2008 Webby Awards - Official Nominee
2008 Webby Awards - Official Honoree x 2
2007 FWA - Site Of The Day
Electronic Arts ‘Need For Speed Carbon’
@ Fluoro
2007 AIMIA - Winner
The Webby Awards
2024 – Judge
2023 – Judge
2022 – Judge
2020 – Judge
Cannes Young Lions Australia
2023 - Judge
The Design Conference
2019 – ‘Designing a 10/10 Product' Talk
Never Not Creative
2019 – SE02EP06 ‘Why Go In-House As A Creative’ Podcast
Streamtime
2019 – ‘Streamtime WIP’ Webinar
2019 – ‘Streamtime for Creatives’ Webinar
2019 – ‘How We Design’ Webinar
General Assembly
2020 – Introduction to Visual Design
2019 – Visual Design for The Web
2019 – Visual Design 101
2019 – Introduction to Photoshop
2019 – Introduction to Visual Design
2019 – Photoshop Bootcamp
2018 – Visual Design for The Web
IxDA Sydney
2020 – Mentor
Never Not Creative
2020 – Job Shadowing Program Host
Advertising Council Australia
2016 – AWARD School Tutor
Vivid Sydney x The Loop
2013 – Digital Masterclass Mentor
