It has been a short stay at Uncommon Creative Studio for Australian creative, Scott Dungate. The London office’s first chief creative officer is leaving at the end of November, to “explore new horizons – directing, teaching, collaborating with brands, and taking on freelance opportunities as an independent creative director in London, and beyond.”

Dungate joined Uncommon in August 2024 after 10 months of freelancing as a creative consultant as well as directing films. Prior to that, he spent close to two decades at Wieden+Kennedy working across four different global offices. This included a 10-year stint in London, time in Shanghai and Tokyo and finally leading the New York agency as CCO.

With Dungate as creative leader, Uncommon London produced a number of standout campaigns, including Ocado’s Shopping List Stories;  a Britbox single-take commercial shot over 14+ hours that wore out the camera shutter three times; celebrating Quaker oats ugliness; getting real about skincare claims for The Ordinary; Erling Haaland’s weird and wonderful training regime for Beats by Dr. Dre.; and a film called Losing it about dealing with male baldness. He also directed a music video for  Khruangbin’s A Love International, that won Best Narrative Director at the London Music Video Awards.

Uncommon seems to have already fortified its creative department with the appointments last week of Josh Tenser, co-founder and ECD of the Uncommon-majority-owned agency, Calling, and Julie Matheny, group creative director at TBWA\Media Arts Lab, as ECDs.