#321 Gail & Olivia

January 22, 2019

Gaining their permanent wings at MUSIC agency, this all female team are slaying the creative world. Whether that's single handedly organising their end of year degree show in Manchester to winning a pencil at D&AD New Blood - these chicks in advertising are making their mark and are smashing it on the Manchester advertising circuit.

They've even created Creative Advent, their annual festive video advent calendar, where they interview and get invaluable advice from creative industry professionals in the North. Instagram and Twitter.

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Georgia and Jasmine — #314 **Georgia & Jasmine**

After recently graduating from the University for the Creative Arts these girls have only been in the industry for a few months and already have a TV spot for a major client under their belts.

With a permanent residency at McCann if their first few months in the industry are anything to go by, they're in for a bright future!
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#314 Georgia & Jasmine

January 15, 2019

After recently graduating from the University for the Creative Arts these girls have only been in the industry for a few months and already have a TV spot for a major client under their belts.

With a permanent residency at McCann if their first few months in the industry are anything to go by, they're in for a bright future!

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Jasmine’s LinkedIn
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Katie and Caitlin — #313 Caitlin & Katie

Since graduating Ad School (Katie at Bucks, and Caitlin at Leeds Arts Uni), this creative duo have been on placements at WCRS, VCCP and now JWT. As well as advertising, they both have part time jobs and side hustles. Katie makes corduroy cushions, and Caitlin designs logos. With live work for Warburton’s and Compare the Market AU, amongst others, these girls can’t wait to create more work that makes people smile. They hope to be filling more agencies with their laughter as they continue the placement and job search.
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#313 Caitlin & Katie

January 14, 2019

Since graduating Ad School (Katie at Bucks, and Caitlin at Leeds Arts Uni), this creative duo have been on placements at WCRS, VCCP and now JWT. As well as advertising, they both have part time jobs and side hustles. Katie makes corduroy cushions, and Caitlin designs logos. With live work for Warburton’s and Compare the Market AU, amongst others, these girls can’t wait to create more work that makes people smile. They hope to be filling more agencies with their laughter as they continue the placement and job search.

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Caitlin LinkedIn
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#239 Lucy Jones

November 1, 2018

Lucy is a copywriter working at AMV BBDO. She’s one half of Chaz and Lucy.

Despite only being in the industry for a few years, she’s got a number of awards under her belt, including a One Show pencil, and the Creative Circle Most Promising Newcomer award. She’s also been shortlisted for a Cannes Lion.

Outside of advertising, she has two children’s books published with Hachette.

She’s a massive fan of metal music and enjoys going to gigs and festivals whenever she can. She also has a big passion for horror movies, and is currently working with Chaz to direct their first short film together. (No points for guessing what genre it is…!)

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#238 Chaz Mather

October 31, 2018

Chaz is an art director working at AMV BBDO. She’s one half of Chaz and Lucy. Despite only being in the industry for a few years, she’s got a number of awards under her belt, including a One Show pencil, and Creative Circle best Newcomers 2018 award. She’s also been shortlisted for a Cannes Lion. Her OOH braille advert for Maltesers got a fair bit of press, and she also made national news when she stood outside London airports, giving away Pussy Protectors, to ward off Donald Trump wandering hands. Outside of advertising Chaz loves a good music gig. Her and Lucy are also currently directing their first short film together, hopefully one of many to come.

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Team Twitter

#235 Em & Liv

October 28, 2018

Firstly, Em & Liv have a hell of a sweet tooth. If they're not disagreeing which is the best colour of Skittle, they're chopping the heads off of Jelly Babies (go check out this bloody brilliant campaign on their website).
Coming from Lincoln Uni they've taken the placement scene in AdLand by storm and are currently crushing it at WCRS. If you want a team who can produce a lot in a little time these Badass Gals set themselves a challenge to think of 200 good strats in a week - they were strategy line queens by the end.

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#209 Kerry & Zoe

October 2, 2018

Kerry & Zoe partnered up a year ago after both their creative partners decided advertising wasn't for them. K&Z managed to get a placement together at 18 Feet & Rising after just 1 week of knowing each other and that placement then soon turned into their first ever Junior creative job early this year. However, the industry has recently thrown some tests at them, after being made redundant but their positive attitude and love of the industry proves to be made of much stronger stuff. They'd be a credit to any agency!

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Zoe’s LinkedIn
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Zoe’s Twitter

#196 Daisy Elsden

September 19, 2018

Daisy is a super talented creative, currently on the placement scene in London with her partner, Josh. Daisy’s work for the WWF really caught our attention, rewriting well known children’s storybooks for the modern world. With animals becoming extinct and with global warming getting worse, the tiger definitely won’t be coming to tea, and you won’t be going on any bear hunts in the forest any time soon. Daisy loves stunt and guerilla forms of advertising, making work that promotes social change and tackles problems in the world.

Check out more of Daisy (and Josh’s) work over on their site and get them in for a crit, or even better – hire them!

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#195 Beth and Nina

Made at the University of Lincoln this badass pair are currently on the hunt for placements in London. They have a hell of a tone of voice and sense of humour, which shines best through their parody Friday the 13th posters for Donald Trump's UK visit. Also some agencies out there may have received their own 'B&N Award', an award they can give out to students on placement when they really stand out from the crowd and Beth and Nina are on a mission to win their awards back. Two seriously badass individuals.
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#195 Beth & Nina

September 18, 2018

#175 Alicia Taylor

August 29, 2018

She's recently left the University of Lincoln with a First Class degree in Creative Advertising. That's pretty badass! She's now moved down to London on the hunt for a placement in adland. She's bursting with ingenious ideas and unique thinking. And her Twitter game is pretty strong! As my creative partner she spends her time bouncing ideas off me, and keeping me working hard!

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#161 Abigail Stephenson

August 15, 2018

Abigail is currently lighting up the placement circuit in London, graduating from the University of Westminster last year with a First Class honours degree in Graphic Design. She got herself into a creative team and has been on placement at VCCP, her next stop is Lucky Generals.

What makes her transition from design into advertising all the more impressive is that she has overcome anxieties relating to her dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD. Adapting to agency life is difficult enough as it is but with a cocktail of learning difficulties it is made all that harder.

Before she got into the agency world, she was afraid that her colleagues would laugh at her for her spelling, and that she would be humiliated in meetings for reading a word wrong off a pitch deck. Needless to say, she has surpassed everyone's, and her own expectations, not only is she slaying creative reviews, she's doing it with a smile on her face; showing us all that there is room in the industry for people like herself.

She's already worked on a variety of brands, including Cadbury's, Muller yogurts, Tango and Comparethemeerkat.com. She also helped re-brand D&AD's New Blood Shift programme for 2018 - D&AD's night school for creatives with no formal arts education or university degrees. You can see the work here: www.dandad.org/en/d-ad-new-blood-shift-london

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#139 Amy & Lou

July 24, 2018

They're consistently doing amazing work, working their asses off on pitches, and making sure everything that leaves their desks is ace. And they're never too busy to help out the junior team (me and other Mel). They're pretty damn badass.

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Lou's Insta

Kate Hayhoe & Laura Box — #133 Kate & Laura

They’re on a fearless mission to change the world whilst having a laugh. And they’re winning awards for it too- they recently won a GOLD Creative Conscience award for their campaign calling out the ASA to regulate political advertising. I’ve known them for 3 years and they’ve been nothing but badass the whole time.
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#133 Kate & Laura

July 18, 2018

They’re on a fearless mission to change the world whilst having a laugh. And they’re winning awards for it too- they recently won a GOLD Creative Conscience award for their campaign calling out the ASA to regulate political advertising. I’ve known them for 3 years and they’ve been nothing but badass the whole time.

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Laura's LinkedIn

L&C.jpg — #106 Charlotte & Lucy

Lucy & Charlotte are a Senior Creative Team at Wunderman UK who have brought unrelenting energy to ad agencies in five different cities across the world, flogging booze, fast food, computers, pet food and more — and they fight tirelessly to represent the under represented, which can be seen in their work with United Airlines, Cailler Chocolate, and Creative Equals.
They’re passionate about leading the way for the next generation through their roles in the YCC over the past 6 years, and are ever-present faces mentoring and leading talks at New Blood, WPP Stella, and universities across the country.
They bring the mantra “if you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right” into every piece of work, every side project, and every event they host. It’s contagious.
Links:
How Advertising Industry Fails Women
Creative Politics 2
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#106 Charlotte & Lucy

June 21, 2018

Lucy & Charlotte are a Senior Creative Team at Wunderman UK who have brought unrelenting energy to ad agencies in five different cities across the world, flogging booze, fast food, computers, pet food and more — and they fight tirelessly to represent the under represented, which can be seen in their work with United Airlines, Cailler Chocolate, and Creative Equals.

They’re passionate about leading the way for the next generation through their roles in the YCC over the past 6 years, and are ever-present faces mentoring and leading talks at New Blood, WPP Stella, and universities across the country.

They bring the mantra “if you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right” into every piece of work, every side project, and every event they host. It’s contagious.

Links:
How Advertising Industry Fails Women
Creative Politics 2

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Charlotte's Twitter
Lucy's Twitter

#95 Kirsten & Kat

June 10, 2018

Scottish creative duo Kirsten Murray and Kat Summers (aka. The Tits) are designing their way around the world, rediscovering their love of design and finding all sorts of fun along the way. They're always willing to offer support, passing on their knowledge to not only creative students, but their peers alike. They continually strive to make our industry a better place, whilst never losing sight of their own morals, advice and guidance. Over on their Instagram account, The Tits are actively promoting female creatives through their Insta-stories, showcasing 374 amazing creative women for every day that isn't International Women's Day. Which is pretty rad. These girls are a force to be reckoned with and only just starting their world tour.

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#92 Chloe Stephenson

June 7, 2018

Chloe is Absolut Vodka's number one fan, with a collection of bottles well into the hundreds. She's always said that her life time dream was to work on Absolut, and that she could retire when she ticked that off her list. The reason Chloe is so badass is that within her first job in advertising she's already designed an Absolut bottle and has some amazing work coming out for them on the horizon. Chloe's so badass that she should probably start looking into her retirement plan...

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#87 Katia Schutz

June 2, 2018

Highly independent, confident and knows her mind.

Katia is the embodiment of a millennial badass gal. Described as "super friendly and approachable towards newbies to the industry and all at the agency. Hard to embody in words, but with a palm tattoo of 'Girls bite back' does anything else really have to be said?!"

Website: www.stefanandkatia.com

hannahandbeth — #83 Hannah & Beth

These northern babes waved goodbye to chips and gravy to come to the big smoke. After graduating from Lincoln in 2016, they placemented at George and Dragon, BMB and Isobel before finding their home at Leo Burnett. Since then, they have worked on projects for Maccie D's, New Balance and even advertised a new state in Saudi Arabia. And that's just the tip of the ice burg. These girls have some shit hot ventures in the pipeline, which we can't wait to see come to life. Also, they're super duper lovely and amazing.
Website: handbcreatives.weebly.com

#83 Hannah & Beth

May 29, 2018

These northern babes waved goodbye to chips and gravy to come to the big smoke. After graduating from Lincoln in 2016, they placemented at George and Dragon, BMB and Isobel before finding their home at Leo Burnett. Since then, they have worked on projects for Maccie D's, New Balance and even advertised a new state in Saudi Arabia. And that's just the tip of the ice burg. These girls have some shit hot ventures in the pipeline, which we can't wait to see come to life. Also, they're super duper lovely and amazing.

Website: handbcreatives.weebly.com

#76 Shannon & Beth

May 22, 2018

These two girls are the creatives behind the genius “Black Cab Book Crit” idea, in which they offered industry professionals free London black cab rides to and from work in exchange for a book crit, pretty damn smart! They’re all-round smart thinkers and genuinely lovely people who never settle for anything less than brilliant.

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/lift-work-give-book-crit-one-creative-duo-trying-break-advertising/1463475

Website: www.shanandbeth.com
Twitter: twitter.com/shannonandbeth

#73 Francesca & Anne

May 19, 2018

A bilingual Badass Gal creative team smashing it over at 4Creative. Francesca is the copywriter and Anne is the art director, they both studied at at Miami Ad School where they got their first glimpse of the advertising world and their foot in the door. Since then they’ve bagged experience at a number of places all around the world, from Ogilvy & Mather Tokyo, BBDO New York, BETC Paris and then both ended up working together at BBH London.

They've recently asked themselves Why people say it takes balls - body parts only males have - to do something courageous? That’s why they made shirts to prove it takes tits as well. Get one here https://www.wearekin.co/initiatives

Website: francesca-and-anne.com