Jamie Colonna

Jamie is an award-winning Art Director with 23 years of experience creating work for huge Global and Pan-European Clients. He is famed for introducing “Va Va Voom” into the English Dictionary with the campaign “Size Matters” for Renault and for launching Ericsson 3G, globally. He has worked with over 60 Clients ranging from Alcohol to Automotive such as Guinness, Coca-Cola, Cadbury’s, UBS, Mastercard, KP, Renault, Muller, BBC, RSPB, McVities, Volvo, EDF, Evian, Citroen, Peugeot, Pfizer as well as many more. Having trained at St Martin’s School of Art in London, he began his career at BBH creating work for some of the Agency’s highest profile Clients like Levi’s, Haagen-Dazs, Sky, Virgin Radio, Audi and Sony. He was quickly named “Best Young Art Director in Print” at the 1993 Creative Futures Exhibition, later moving to Publicis in 1996 and Fuel Worldwide in 2006. In 2009 he was appointed Global Creative Director at Euro RSCG. Beyond Advertising, Jamie also became Creative Director, Art & Acquisitions Editor for Westzone in 1999; an Art book publishing house. He was responsible for launching a series of important titles at the London IMAX Theatre and led a number of promotion campaigns through multi-media channels. Having learnt the trade, Jamie turned creative entrepreneur. In 2001, he set up Spine, an independent Art Book Publishing House, distributing books through Faber in UK and later Thames & Hudson, worldwide. Here, he produced amongst many others, “The Beatles; The True Beginnings” with Pete Best. In June 2012, Jamie also co-founded Yourbrand², writing and co-directing 10 films for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and producing a photographic book celebrating Warchild’s 20th Birthday. Jamie has won Awards in all major creative festivals such as Cannes for Renault Clio, Ericsson and Guinness brewing and more recently, for eDF energy in 2011 where he was a finalist. In 2012, he picked up 2 Pencils at D&AD for work he produced on Unilever’s VO5 account. Jamie is 19 years happily married