ABOUT

Hello. Hey. Hi.

I’m a millennial hybrid Creative Director with a broad creative skillset, a wealth of brand, media and platform experience, and more than 17 years spent turning business problems into ideas people remember.

I’ve helped build brands, launch products and create campaigns for global companies, challenger businesses and charities across advertising, design, digital, social, retail and experiential. Whatever the channel, my approach remains the same: find the simplest, most compelling idea and make it work wherever people encounter it.

Today, I lead multidisciplinary creative teams, shape brands and campaign platforms, mentor emerging talent and work closely with clients to turn ambitious challenges into effective, beautifully crafted work.

Along the way, I’ve picked up three D&AD Pencils, a Cannes Lion, six Creative Circle awards and 21 other shiny industry objects.

Outside agency hours, I run the YCC, the Placement Poverty Pledge and Single Creatives. Through them, I’ve spoken at universities and created thought-provoking, educational events with some of the UK’s leading agencies and global brands, helping the next generation find a fairer route into the industry.

Personal
ampeel@hotmail.co.uk

YCC
andy@ycc.agency

CHEEKY COMMUNICATIONS

Deputy Creative Director

September 2025 – present

Helping shape the agency’s creative output across brand, advertising and design. I lead multidisciplinary teams from pitch through to production, developing ideas that solve real business problems while raising the creative standard across every brief.

SOUTHPAW

Associate Creative Director

June 2021 – September 2025

Led creative across an international portfolio including Brown-Forman’s whisky brands, Woodford Reserve, Fords Gin, Honda, Estrella Galicia, UNICEF and Zip Water.

Responsible for developing campaign platforms, brand identities, launch campaigns and integrated creative spanning advertising, digital, retail, experiential and social. Managed creative teams, mentored junior talent and worked closely with clients to turn ambitious briefs into commercially successful work.

PULSE CREATIVE – THE&PARTNERSHIP

Associate Creative Director

March 2016 – June 2021

Creative lead across News UK’s portfolio including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, talkSPORT and Virgin Radio.

Created integrated campaigns designed to grow subscriptions, audiences and commercial partnerships across print, digital, outdoor, radio and social. Helped shape the creative direction of one of the UK’s largest media publishers.

FREELANCE CREATIVE

TM Lewin, People.io, C8 Management, PS London, Nonsense, Elvis

March 2016 – June 2021

Worked with agencies and brands including TM Lewin, People.io and Elvis, pitching and developing ideas for brands including Cadbury, Budweiser, Virgin Trains and Quidco.

Adapted quickly to different agency cultures while bringing fresh thinking to pitches, campaigns and brand development.

MBA

Midweight Creative

August 2015 – March 2016

Developed integrated campaigns across B2B and consumer brands including O2 Business, Embraer, Neilson Holidays, Avios, Sage Appliances and Comté.

Built experience creating ideas across advertising, digital, CRM and brand communications.

FREELANCE CREATIVE

Possible WW, The Croc, Blue Hive, Havas, Wax Comms, The Minimart, StartJG, Big Comms, Rehabstudio, Doco, Rabbit

February 2011 – May 2013

Campaigns and projects for Domino’s, Ford, Sainsbury’s, Adidas, Holland & Barrett, WKD, FlyBe, RedBull and Google.

LEITH

Junior Creative

September 2009 – January 2011

Work produced for Irn-Bru, Visit Scotland, First Bus, Scotrail and the Scottish Government.

 

UNION

Junior Creative

February 2009 – August 2009

Live work created for Historic Scotland and the Scottish Government.

CREATIVE PLACEMENTS

Hooper Galton, The Red Brick Road, FCB Inferno, Amp London

April 2008 – December 2008

Saw work in the wild for Tesco, National Express, Vodafone, Campo Viejo.

Awards

I've won lots of shiny metal, some wood, and a bit of glass.

D&AD
3 Wood, 2 Shortlist

CREATIVE CIRCLE
2 Silver, 4 Bronze

CANNES
1 Silver, 1 Shortlist

KINSALE
1 Silver, 1 Shortlist

EPICA
1 Bronze, 1 Shortlist

FRESH AWARDS
1 Silver

FAB AWARDS
1 Shortlist

DRUM AWARDS
1 Shortlist

BIMA
1 Nomination

DRUM CREATIVE OUT OF HOME AWARDS
Grand Prix, 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze

Skills & Software

My many hats

  • Copywriting
  • Art Direction
  • Design
  • Strategy
  • AI
    – ElevenLabs
    – ChatGPT
    • Custom GPTs
    • AI agents
    • Sites
    • Image making
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
    – Photoshop
    – InDesign
    – Illustrator
    – Lightroom
    – XD
  • Figma
  • Sony / Canon / iPhone photography
  • Studio lighting and styling 
  • Storyboarding
  • Canva
  • CapCut
  • Best practices of Meta, Instagram, X (Twitter) & TikTok 
  • MS PowerPoint 
  • G Slides
  • WordPress
  • Elementor 

© 2009–26 Andy Peel