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These individuals are building brands with creativity at the heart, challenging their categories and inspiring other marketers to do the same.
Lynsey Atkin, Executive creative director, 4Creative
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More public art than advertising: Last year, Lynsey Atkin spearheaded the remake of Channel 4’s idents, sweeping numerous industry awards. The project was “a huge undertaking with massive creative pressure, but a total joy—and rarity—to create something that felt much less like advertising and far more like a piece of public video art,” she said.
Laying the groundwork: “I spent most of [my childhood] in my bedroom copying Garfield cartoons and glue-gunning glass beads to my carpet, which is almost indistinguishable from my job now,” Atkin recalled.
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