Jon & Vic is one of Singapore’s few true-blue creative teams.

It all started back in 2000 when Victor, fresh from graduating with an Economics degree before finally answering his creative calling, met Jon, a graduate of Visual Communications wide-eyed about advertising.

They were soon plucked by the legendary Linda Locke to work at Leo Burnett Singapore, where they had the good fortune of learning from some of the best in business like Tay Guan Hin, Ng Tian It and Goh Wee Kim.

Starting off as young creatives, Victor and Jon had to slowly earn their share of self-confidence. In 2002, they emerged overall winners of the first-ever Portfolio School organised by the Institute of Advertising Singapore. In 2004, they were jointly named the inaugural Young Creative Of The Year at Asia Pacific Adfest. In the same year, they also ranked among the Top 10 Young Guns in the world. In 2005, Campaign Brief Asia lauded the duo as one of Asia’s top young creative teams, based on its creative rankings and polls among top creative directors. Along the way, their work has been recognised by the Gunn Report and Campaign UK as among the best in the world.

Things got even more interesting when world-renowned London agency Mother hired Jon & Vic as its first-ever Asian team.

In all, they have consistently won international accolades from D&AD, One Show, Cannes, Clio and the Singapore Creative Circle Awards – on a range of key agency brands including McDonald’s, Philips, Procter & Gamble and Nippon Paint.

In giving back to the creative community, Victor and Jon have served as course tutors at AWARD School to train the next generation of creative talent. They were also invited to speak at the D&AD President’s Forum in London, on the topic “Asian Creativity From The Singapore Perspective”. Victor was a judge of Integrated Advertising at the last year’s D&AD Awards, and Jon was one of the youngest to judge the Singapore Creative Circle Awards. Both of them have also served as judges at past Crowbar Awards.

Following a successful return to Leo Burnett last year, Victor and Jon kicked off the new year by taking up the challenge of Creative Directors at Euro RSCG.

In 1986, Graham graduated with a BSc Honours Degree in Chemistry from Edinburgh University. This proved a surprisingly good preparation for his first job in advertising - copywriter for a Dutch business-to-business agency specialising in the chemicals industry.

Realising that doing ads for consumers was a bit more fun than writing for chemical engineers, Graham joined a mainstream Dutch agency that did both advertising and direct marketing.

In 1991, Graham moved to Singapore, joining O&M Direct as a copywriter. Four years later, he moved “above-the-line” with O&M. Approximately 3 years Graham had progressed to Senior Writer.

He then advanced to Creative Director, joining Leo Burnett. Followed by TBWA Singapore, as Executive Creative Director.

Graham joined Ogilvy Interactive in July 2000 as Regional Creative Director, Asia Pacific, to oversee the build up of the regional network: Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, Jakarta, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

In 2003, Graham joined Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore. His role: strengthen the agency’s through-the-line abilities.

In 2005 Graham joined BBH Japan. His brief was similar: to strengthen the agency’s creative offering across all media.

On January 15th 2007, Graham joined TBWA/Tequila as “Creative Integrator”. As such, in addition to acting as Executive Creative Director of TBWA/Tequila Singapore, Graham will help other TBWA/Tequila offices in Asia. develop an integrated creative offering.

His first major achievement at the agency was winning the global Singapore Airlines account.

Graham’s ambient, print and TV work has been awarded at shows such as: Asia-Pacific Adfest, Media Awards, The One Show, Clio, Cannes, D&AD and Communication Arts.

He has won a cross-section of all the major DM awards: Caples, Echos and the Asian Direct Marketing awards (where he has won Best of Show twice). Graham also steered Saatchi’s Singapore to joint number 1 most creative Direct Marketing agency in the world, as ranked by the WON Report ‘05. (The WON Report ranks agencies based on the number of major DM awards won).

Graham’s interactive work has been awarded at shows such as the One Show Interactive, Cannes Cyberlions, Clio Interactive and Communication Arts.

As such, he is the one of the few creatives to have achieved international recognition across all media.

Shawn spearheads the digital proliferation across the BBH Asia Pacific network as Interactive Media Director

Versed with his incisive approach towards technology, design, and popular culture, his digital campaigns have garnered international awards at the D&AD, One Show, New York Festivals, Clio, Young Guns, and accreditation as jury to the Crowbars, DM Asia and CCAs.

His portfolio includes campaigns for Levi's, American Express, DHL, IBM, Nokia, LTA, and a digital art installation for the Baume & Mercier luxury watchmaker in 2007.

Shawn has been appointed creative director at Old School, Singapore's new creative reservoir for contemporary arts and commerce.

Chris is the founder and creative director of Asylum, a creative company that comprises of a design studio, a retail store and a workshop.

Asylum is defined as an ideas company. Since its inception in 1999, they have worked on cross disciplinary projects that includes interactive design, product development, environmental & interior design, packaging, apparel design, branding, and graphic design. Their portfolio of clients include Levi's, Motorola, The Marmalade Group, Sony and Microsoft among others. Asylum is also active in the arts community doing pro-bono work for The Necessary Stage and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

The retail store is a new addition to the company. It is a concept store selling experimental music, books on culture and design, limited edition fashion products and contemporary art from designers. The store is also a platform where designers can come together, exchange ideas and be inspired. It will play host to a series of free workshops where local and international luminaries can share their passion.

Prior to his work at Asylum, Chris headed the design division in Bartle Bogle Hegarty Asia Pacific, and Ogilvy & Mather Singapore. His work in the creative industry is recognized with international awards including The One Show, D&AD, Creative Circle Awards, NY Art Directors Club, NY Type Directors Club, Graphis, Communication Arts, IDN Awards and Asian Media Advertising Awards.

Apart from his commercial work Chris is also very active in the design education in Asia, he guest lectures and has given talks to design universities and conferences in Asia.

Roy Poh was one of the creative directors and founders of Kinetic, one of the most highly-awarded agencies in the region. After 7 years in Kinetic, many of his projects have been featured in renowned industry periodicals. Roy has proven that good work need not be given up just to survive in today's market with awards like D&AD, Oneshow, Art Director's Club, Cannes, Clio, YoungGuns, Communication Arts, Singapore Creative Circle Awards, Singapore Designers Award and many more.

Roy has also been invited to judge at both international and local award shows like the Australia YoungGuns Design & Advertising award, the Singapore Crowbar Student Design award, the Singapore Creative Circle Award, Young Asian Designers Award and most recently he judged for the D&AD Global Award in London. And he is nominated by IAS as 15 most influential Creative Directors in Singapore for 2006 and 2007.

He is currently the creative director and founder of Beautiful. His new creative shop.

Rennie is one of the key founders and Managing Director of Yellow Box Studios in Singapore. Essentially a music and sound Design Audio House, Yellow Box is has been at the cutting edge of audio for some of the best commercials and films to come out of Asia.

If Yellow Box had a backbone, in the metaphorical sense, it would be in the form of Rennie Gomes. He wears several professional hats and is the Managing Director of the Company as well. As a composer, sound designer and audio engineer, Rennie has had 20 years of experience in audio-post production and music engineering. Best known for his edgy, experimental grooves and unconventional methods, Rennie has won several international awards for his creative sound design. Other than his utter madness for loud pulsating music, he is also known for his uncompromising passion and dogged loyalty to Zouk Club.

His award winning advertising credits include Finalist in the Sound Design category for Lexus in New York’s advertising tour de force The One Show in 1999 as well as Finalist for Best Music in a TV campaign in the prestigious D&AD 2001 for Chinese 88.com, a television campaign featuring a variety of spots, for which “Tortoise” was awarded critical recognition.

Rennie was also awarded Best Sound Design in the 2002 New York Festival for JVC, ‘Sound’, a commercial produced by The Shooting Gallery for local powerhouse, Ad Planet, featured an unusually quiet style of sound design.

Rennie also picked up a Silver for Animation and Motion graphics and a Bronze for Sound Design and Music in the Interactive Craft categories in the Creative Circles Awards 2007.

Rennie has also been a key figure in developing local film projects, being an avid follower and supporter of local films since the early beginnings. He is firmly commited to raising the level of production quality in Singapore-produced films, particularly in the area of sound design, music scoring and audio post. As a sound designer and film mixer, he is also much sought after for his inventive, unorthodox approach to cinema audio. Rennie has worked with Emmy Award winner Robert Chappel , Asia’s film stalwart Eric Khoo, and promising newcomer, director Royston Tan. Rennie’s film credits include sound design for Mee Pok Man, Twelve Storeys (Eric Khoo), Sound Design for The Long Lunch trailer (Anthony Redman), as Supervising Engineer on Talking Cock the Movie, as Audio Technical Advisor on City Sharks (Esan Sivalingam), and his best work for feature film till date, as music composer and sound designer for Royston Tan’s existential surburban portrayal of disenfranchised teenhood, Fifteen.

In November last year Rennie released his first experimental album entitles Fade to Black. This is his first commercial release.. Essentially an electronic musician Gomes has collaborated with The Observatory having helped produce their critically acclaimed 1st album and also having done remixes on two of their songs.

Gomes’s music influences range from the likes of Square Pusher, Massive Attack, DJ Krush to Air and Portishead.

Singapore-born Jonathan Tay began his professional career in 1995, focusing mainly on fashion and editorial photography. But in the last decade his talent and client roster have grown beyond one genre to encompass just about anything the mind can fathom, specifically his own.

When viewing Jon's portfolio one is struck by the enormous creativity and technical achievement of his variegated body of work. Humor plays a pivotal role in much of Tay 's conceptual work, and he hits his mark with the bite of a seasoned comic and savage photographic eye.

Tay has won numerous awards honoring his artistic abilities and in 2001 moved to New York to further define his career as an international photographer. Since he move back to asia in 2005, Tay has been awarded 3 silvers for photography in Creative Circle Award, Best use of Photography in Adfest, a silver and a bronze for best use of photography for Media Spike, D&AD for photography, Lurzer's Archive Best 200 Photography and PDN Annual for advertising and personal photography.
Currently, Jonathan Tay has been working on regional and global job with agency in the States, London and Asia . He also recently has his first exhibition, showcasing his fine art photography work.

Born in Singapore, Eric Seow is a well-renowned photographer who has carved out a name for himself not only at home, but throughout Asia. His creative showcase of campaign work has won numerous international awards in the past two decades.

Modest in manner coupled with a professional working ethic, Eric Seow remains the constant collaborator in every campaign he shoots. Applying a variety of techniques, ranging from a stylized fashion approach to the very real, he has been described as one of the best with the confidence of someone who knows he can get the job done.
Eric Seow is the founder of Beacon Pictures and continuously shares hisvision through his work in the advertising, design, editorial and photography industries.

Charlie Blower is an award-winning integrated ECD with over 15 years experience in Asian advertising. He joined Euro RSCG Singapore after 10 years with DDB & Rapp Collins, where he oversaw work for Singapore’s largest credit card issuer, UOB, winning two Effies at the inaugural Singapore show in the process.

Charlie has worked on a variety of international and local blue chip accounts from Sony to Volvo and Raffles Hotel, even an imaginary product called “Wunderpants”, designed to prove the effectiveness of outdoor. His work has been recognized in D&AD, One show, Clio, Media, Creative Circle as well as New York Festivals. He has also served as a co-chairman of The Crowbars and been a jury member on numerous international and local award shows.

When Charlie isn’t in the agency, he’s either out on his bike or enjoying time with his two children, Matthew (12) and Sophie (9).