Third Person
(Business Abstract)
Tom Phillips is an interdisciplinary creative director and business leader exploring ideas that connect audience and brand through the prism of art, commerce and culture. A life touched by diverse global sources informs a creative process that draws truth from experience to write campaigns that speak to people.
Words and pictures stick and move to offer the audience new perspectives. Strategic frameworks are designed to share stories, navigate channels and build community. Business experience crosses categories including Sport, Spirits, Music, Technology, Automotive, Fashion and Beauty working with brands from inception through global expression.
From designer to art director, photographer to director, student to teacher, Tom has sought first hand experience of each discipline within his craft to shape an informed voice. As Chief Creative Officer and founding partner of Exposure New York Tom has fused a learned creative process with entrepreneurial instincts to build a creative agency model that blurs the lines of communication while connecting the dots.
First Person
(Wonford St.James)
I was born in London. I don’t remember it. My mother is from Accrington. My father is from Bromley. I grew up in Cullompton. I remember the light and the colour, the greens and the browns, the fields and the cows, the M5 and the cricket club, the cider and the hash. It is all still there, largely unchanged, slighty bigger. If you cut the earth in Devon it bleeds a deep red clay.
I once lived on my own in a five bedroom Georgian townhouse in Ravenscourt Park. When everybody else had gone the landlord forgot I was still there. The wysteria grew into the windows at the front of the house and there were mice in the kitchen. The lounge was flooded with a uniquely English wash of light as it gently lent towards the road. The television glowed pink. Whilst I was at my grandmother’s funeral I was burgled. They took a Technics stereo, a Canon Super-8 camera and a black waterproof Helly Hansen jacket.
