Gavin Kellett and David Hillyard

Gavin Kellett and David Hillyard

Senior Creative Team / Creative Directors, London, UK

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Gavin and David are a grown up team.
They met at Saatchi & Saatchi in 1991 and have worked together since 2009.
During their combined 67 years in the industry, they’ve been Creative Directors, Creative Partners and Group Heads.
They’ve looked after huge bits of business and between them, they’ve won lots of awards, including five D&AD Silver Pencils and nine Cannes Lions.
Since 2012, they’ve been working on a freelance basis, both for agencies and directly with clients, in London and worldwide.
And whether that entails spending a few days coming up with fresh, get-you-out-of-a-hole concepts, or a few months producing big, integrated campaigns, all their work is delivered with the enthusiasm and good humour that means they’re usually invited back.

Gavin’s experience:

2012 – present Gavin Kellett Ltd
Copywriter / Creative Director

2003-2012 Publicis
Head of Copy / Creative Director

2000-2003 Saatchi & Saatchi
Creative Group Head / Creative Partner

1999-2000 BBH
Copywriter

1991-1999 Saatchi & Saatchi
Copywriter

David’s experience:

2012 – present Hillyhog Ltd
Art Director / Creative Director

2004-2012 Publicis
Creative Director

1988-2004 Saatchi & Saatchi
Art Director / Creative Group Head / Creative Director

Awards:

D&AD: 5 Yellow, 3 Graphite, 25 Wooden
Cannes Lions: 1 Gold, 1 Titanium Silver, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze
One Show: 1 Gold
Creative Circle: 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 5 Bronze
Campaign Big Awards: 2 Silver
Campaign Press Awards: 1 Gold, 2 Silver
Campaign Direct Awards: 4 Gold, 1 Silver
British Television Awards: 2 Gold, 5 Silver, 4 Bronze
Travel Marketing Awards: 1 Grand Prix, 3 Gold
Midsummer Awards: 4 Gold, 1 Silver
Ariel Awards: 2 Gold

Freelance clients:

180 Amsterdam
adam&eveDDB
AMV BBDO
Accenture Song
Armando Testa
BETC London
BMB
BigSmall
Blitzworks
Catalyst Spirits
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
DDB Amsterdam
DDB Hamburg
DDB London
DDB Munich
DDB New York
DDB Stockholm
Dyson Ltd
Fallon London
Familia
Fold7
Founded
Grey London
GTB
Havas Worldwide
Huge
Innocean London
Krow Communications
Leo Burnett Frankfurt
LIDA
Lowe and Partners Worldwide
McCann London
McGarry Bowen
Neil A Dawson & Co
Ogilvy London
Oliver
Partners Andrews Aldridge
Publicis Amsterdam
Publicis London
Publicis One Touch
RKCR / Y&R
Saatchi & Saatchi Düsseldorf
Saatchi & Saatchi Frankfurt
Saatchi & Saatchi London
Saatchi & Saatchi Milan
Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore
Saatchi & Saatchi X
SapientNitro
Spark44
Special London
Special Sydney
Superunion
TBWA \ London
TBWA \ New York
TBWA \ Paris
Team Eleven
Team Saatchi
Tribal DDB
The Liberty Guild
The Ninety-Niners
The Odd Number Johannesburg
Thirst Craft
Tug London
WCRS

A few kind words from other people:

"There are only three things in life that are certain: death, taxes and the fact that David and Gavin will get you out of the shit. They're an ideas machine. And what's more they're an utterly reliable, little to no maintenance, astonishingly quick and super good ideas machine. Put simply, they're the best freelance creative team in London. As a final bonus they're a lot nicer and funnier and kinder than either death or taxes. Both of which are rubbish."

Alex Grieve
Global & London CCO
BBH London

“I have worked closely with Dave and Gavin on and off for over twenty years. They have lost none of their enthusiasm for the business, and are both energetic and focused, capable of delivering work at the highest level. Moreover, they are open and collaborative, always willing to help make others' work better, and making any project seem less like work with their positivity and good humour.”

John Pallant
Founder & Global Chief Creative Officer
Blitzworks

“Gavin and Dave are guaranteed to give you what you want. Whether it’s smaller, specific executions or big, fat, integrated solutions, their ideas will surprise you, yet make perfect sense. They are charming, confident guys with bucket-loads of experience and no egos. In the last two years, I have used them twice as often as any other team. I’m not stupid.”

Richard Russell
Executive Creative Director
DDB Europe

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