James Murphy is CEO of adam&eveDDB. He began his career as a graduate at Ogilvy and then spent 11 years at RKCR/Y&R in a number of senior management roles. He co-founded adam&eve, renowned for its John Lewis work, in 2008 and the agency was bought by DDB in 2012. Since then adam&eve has risen rapidly up the UK agency rankings and won a stream of awards, including 2014’s Cannes Festival of Creativity Agency of the Year.
The best ads of 2014
W+K Honda Civic Type-R
Love the idea, love how simple and fun it is to experience the idea…
(Trailer below)
(Full interactive version – image below – here)
Grey – Sunday Times Rich List
Superbly captures our (the readers) mixture of love, loathing and envy for the denizens of the Rich List
Mischief PR – Paddy Power ‘Farage Ryder Cup’
We did a lovely cut up of Farage clips for Lastminute.com…. these guys went and got him to deliver a Bafta-worthy comedy performance and owned the Ryder Cup in the process
Dr. Dre R/GA and Sword Fight – Beats ‘The game before the game’ World Cup
This took the crown for pre-tournament anticipation from Nike (even if Neymar Jnr did get taken out before the big finale)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-Ej-A75Pg
Mother – Ikea ‘Beds’
This is so beautiful, intelligent and inspiring – it makes me want to cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZW04_BdyG8
