People
We are a warm and
optimistic bunch who will always go the extra mile
(or late night) if that’s what
it takes to make a job even
the tiniest bit better.
We work hard to build
good, friendly and healthy relationships; both in the
studio and with clients.
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Dan graduated from Camberwell with his work already published in Creative Review. After a period of freelancing he created an identity for which he won a Gold BDA before moving into retail design, with Conran Design Group. He then spent 3 years as Creative Director of a broadcast design company, before establishing Proud Creative in 2005.
As a founder of Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch, Dan can take credit for breaking Parra in the UK, whilst also bringing over Geoff McFetridge, Gregory Gilbert-Lodge and Experimental Jetset, not to mention his support of homegrown talent - UVA, Daniel Eatock and James Joyce of One Fine Day.
Design jury duties have included Promax and more recently D&AD and The Cannes Lions.
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Roger began his production career in commercials, working with Richard Phillips, the multi-award winning writer/director of the Maureen Lipman BT campaign. Having survived 5 years of working with Richard with sanity largely intact, producing for anyone else has often seemed straightforward (if occasionally less 'interesting').
He has subsequently gone on to gain 10 years production experience in commercials, pop promos, branding and design - with responsibility for budgeting, scheduling and facilitating productions with budgets from £10k to £950k. He has produced five overseas channel re-brands in the last few years and has had work awarded at the Cannes Lions, Soho Shorts, Promax UK and D&AD.
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James studied at Bath School of Art & Design, graduating in 2001, before moving to London where he has worked at various leading studios. He has worked on a wide range of accounts in his career, including Nike, UBS and Channel Five. His main focus is branding, identity and design for print. He was the founding Art Director of Turps Banana magazine and has recently completed the identity for the inaugural British Ceramics Biennial. In 2008 he worked on the influential SMART 2020 report with The Climate Group which has featured in the NY Times, The Economist and The Guardian, amongst others.
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Jon Rowlandson graduated from Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication with a degree in graphic design. He joined Proud in the summer of 2006 and has since had work featured in Creative Review, Design Week and IdN Magazine.
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Gareth has worked in the advertising and television industry for nearly a decade, with live action and animation production experience in long form, short form and documentary. He co-founded documentary production company Tourist with a Typewriter in 2004 and has directed, produced and edited a number of documentaries dealing with human rights issues.
Josh is a website architect, passionate technologist and regular collaborator with Proud Creative on digital development and online marketing projects.
He has a degree in photography and started as an intern at SHOWStudio, working with Nick Knight.
His technical knowledge is second to none and he invariably brings keen insight and judgement to the analysis of any brief. But what really sets him apart is his ability to communicate his ideas clearly; both in the studio and with clients.