Brett Wickens
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Brett Wickens is a Canadian and British
Creative Director
living and working in the USA.
Canadian-born Brett Wickens is a creative director and partner in the design studio Ammunition
, which was named one of the top ten Most Innovative Companies in Design in 2011 by Fast Company magazine -- for the third year in a row. He is also the founding partner of DreamSurface, an application design company for mobile applications.
Brett worked with British designer Peter Saville
as a partner in his London studio during the 1980s and 90s, where they developed renowned campaigns for clients as diverse as Yohji Yamamoto
, Factory Records
, Peter Gabriel
and the French Ministry of Culture. In 1990 he became an Associate Partner in Pentagram's London office.
In 1994 he moved to Los Angeles to become VP Creative Director at Frankfurt Balkind Partners, where he directed new media initiatives and created campaigns for most of the major Hollywood studios, and he also designed the logotype for HBOs The Sopranos.
In 1999, Brett became the Global Creative Director of Sapient before joining MetaDesign as VP Creative Director in 2002, where he directed interaction and branding projects for clients including Adobe, Coca-Cola, Four Seasons, McAfee, San Francisco Ballet, SanDisk, Shangri-La Hotels, Sony, Viacom, J&J and FICO.
He has been a guest speaker on NPR, contributing editor at EYE magazine, teacher at the California Institute of the Arts, and speaker at many symposia, including the RGD Design Thinkers Conference 2008 in Toronto, and the Creative Review Click Conference 2010 in San Francisco.
Brett was also a pioneer of electronic music in Canada. While still in high school he formed his own record label and released an album under the name Ceramic Hello
with fellow musician Roger Humphreys that has now been re-released several times. He has composed with William Orbit
, Jah Wobble
, Andy McCluskey
(OMD), Martha Ladly
and others.
His design work is included in the permanent collection of Design at the V&A Museum, London.
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
Creative Director
Creative Director
A creative director is a position often found within the graphic design, film, music, fashion, advertising, media or entertainment industries, but may be useful in other creative organizations such as web development and software development firms as well....
living and working in the USA.
Canadian-born Brett Wickens is a creative director and partner in the design studio Ammunition
Ammunition Design Group
Ammunition Design Group is a multi-disciplinary design firm led by Robert Brunner, Matt Rolandson, and Brett Wickens. Operating as a design consultancy, the team provides services in the areas of industrial design, service design, identity design, and user experience design for various U.S. and...
, which was named one of the top ten Most Innovative Companies in Design in 2011 by Fast Company magazine -- for the third year in a row. He is also the founding partner of DreamSurface, an application design company for mobile applications.
Brett worked with British designer Peter Saville
Peter Saville
Peter Saville is an English art director and graphic designer. During the 1980s, he designed many record sleeves for Factory Records.-Early life:Peter Saville was born in Manchester.Saville attended St Ambrose College...
as a partner in his London studio during the 1980s and 90s, where they developed renowned campaigns for clients as diverse as Yohji Yamamoto
Yohji Yamamoto
Yōji Yamamoto , is an award winning Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Yohji is considered to be among the master tailors whose work is thought to be of fashion genius and he has been described by Julie Gilhart, fashion director for Barney's New York as probably the only designer...
, Factory Records
Factory Records
Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside and James and...
, Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...
and the French Ministry of Culture. In 1990 he became an Associate Partner in Pentagram's London office.
In 1994 he moved to Los Angeles to become VP Creative Director at Frankfurt Balkind Partners, where he directed new media initiatives and created campaigns for most of the major Hollywood studios, and he also designed the logotype for HBOs The Sopranos.
In 1999, Brett became the Global Creative Director of Sapient before joining MetaDesign as VP Creative Director in 2002, where he directed interaction and branding projects for clients including Adobe, Coca-Cola, Four Seasons, McAfee, San Francisco Ballet, SanDisk, Shangri-La Hotels, Sony, Viacom, J&J and FICO.
He has been a guest speaker on NPR, contributing editor at EYE magazine, teacher at the California Institute of the Arts, and speaker at many symposia, including the RGD Design Thinkers Conference 2008 in Toronto, and the Creative Review Click Conference 2010 in San Francisco.
Brett was also a pioneer of electronic music in Canada. While still in high school he formed his own record label and released an album under the name Ceramic Hello
Ceramic Hello
Ceramic Hello was a duo from Burlington, Ontario, formed by Brett Wickens in 1980 after leaving Spoons. He teamed up with Roger Humphreys who added a more classical bent to the minimal synthesizer tunes ....
with fellow musician Roger Humphreys that has now been re-released several times. He has composed with William Orbit
William Orbit
William Orbit is an English musician, composer and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album Ray of Light. He has also co-produced several unreleased Madonna songs originally recorded for other albums...
, Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...
, Andy McCluskey
Andy McCluskey
George Andrew "Andy" McCluskey is the lead singer, bass guitarist, and primary songwriter for the band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ....
(OMD), Martha Ladly
Martha Ladly
Martha Ladly, AOCA RGD MCSD is a Canadian academic, designer and musician. She is currently Associate Professor of interaction design, at OCAD University. Ladly has also had a long career as a musician and achieved international fame as part of Canadian New Wave band Martha & the Muffins...
and others.
His design work is included in the permanent collection of Design at the V&A Museum, London.