Futurerising - Lydia

In our Futurerising talk on Wednesday 7th March, we heard from 3 guest speakers from different areas and backgrounds within advertising. I found the talk really helpful as we found out about different ways of getting into the industry, and got some really great advice from industry professionals. One person who really inspired me from the talks was Hash Milhan, a Digital Creative at Adam + Eve DDB, who spoke to us about how he got into advertising at home in Sri Lanka and took his passion further to start a career as a digital artist in the UK. His biggest piece of advice was simple to contact people as much as you can, to find people within the industry whose work inspires us and to contact them to let them know, and to ask for placements. He pushed the importance of creating an online portfolio, so that when people search our names they find a professional site full of our best work. I really love Adam + Eve DDB as an agency, and aspire to create work for some of their big clients such as John Lewis and Samsung, so to hear from someone within the agency was really insightful for me, especially as Hash said he'd worked there for a number of years.


One of my favourite Adam + Eve DDB adverts was the H&M Wham! Advert, which I wrote about in my COP2 micro dissertation on diversity and inclusion. The advert has beautiful art direction and a great sense of style and high fashion, whilst still staying fun and interesting to watch.

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