I’ll try to avoid making this sound like some tragic beauty pageant interview. You know the sort of thing… “This is Tony, he’s a Gemini who loves movies, long walks on the beach and a good glass of Shiraz…”
Although most of that is true (except the ‘long walks’ bit. I’d rather surf), it’s not necessarily what you want to know here. What you should know is that I love advertising. Always have. I was one of those weird kids that watched the ads just as intently as the TV show. I’d sing the jingles; recite the scripts. Still can.
When I discovered there were places that actually paid you to do this stuff, I was hooked. During my school holidays I worked at a print shop and then into their art department. I still remember the thrill when I saw the first thing I did appear in the newspaper (it’s a thrill I still get and if I lost it I’d get out of the business). There I heard about tertiary courses to become a “commercial artist”. After completing that I got work at a couple of print production places, but my goal was always to crack it into an ad agency. That opportunity came from McCann Erickson in Perth, Western Australia and the rest is history.
It’s been a thrilling, turbulent, enlightening, satisfying, confusing, bumpy, sometime blurry, uplifting and fun ride. It’s taken my family and I across Australia to pursue the best way to do this job. A pursuit I’ll always continue.
Oh… and I want world peace. Thank you.
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Gembrook, Victoria, Australia 3783
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0408683745