Special London has hired the multi-awarded creative team, Gregory Fazal and Thomas Worthington, as senior creatives. The duo will work across Special clients including Employment Hero and Uber and will report to David Day, CCO & partner.
Fazal and Worthington join from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam where they brought the Aurora Borealis to the skies of Manchester for Nike in a campaign that attracted over 8 million views in a week, and became one of Nike Football’s most viewed films of the year.
During their time at W+K, they also created the Every Decision Counts work for Google, one of the tech giant’s first ever sustainability campaigns.
Fazal and Worthington started their careers as the first team in the world to win a Yellow, White and Black Pencil for a single piece of work at D&AD New Blood fortheir Nationwide campaign, How it should be. This landed them a job at Grey London working under Vicki Maguire and Nils Leonard, before they went on to work at BBC Creative, Havas and Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam.
They have created work for major brands including Nike, BBC, Volkswagen, Comic Relief, Durex and most recently Google.
Along with creating international award-winning work in advertising, they have also directed short films, authored a children’s book, a football magazine, comic book and an Apple Top 100 podcast, called Walking on Jupiter, a true story about surviving suicide, narrated by actor Stephen Graham.
David Day, chief creative officer at Special London, stated, “As Special London continues to grow, it’s important we find talent that are the embodiment of our values and ambitions; Greg and Thomas deliver and surpass on both counts. Winners of the first ever Yellow, Black and White Pencils for a single piece of work, with experience at some of the world’s most creative agencies, such as Wieden and Kennedy and BBC Creative, working on brands such as Nike, Volkswagen and Google. We feel so lucky to have these two wonderful human beings at Special London.”
Fazal and Worthington added, “Our mothers never called us special as children so this was our main motivation for joining. Secondary to this was the free Jammy Dodgers. And thirdly it was a chance to help build an agency with some truly, wonderfully, talentedly people.”
