Special London has poached award-winning creative duo Gregory Fazal and Thomas Worthington from Wieden+Kennedy’s Amsterdam arm, with the pair taking up their new role effective immediately.
Having worked on a variety of major accounts for Wieden+Kennedy, including Nike and Google, Fazal and Worthington will now work across the London agency’s top clients such as Employment Hero and Uber.
Reporting into chief creative officer and partner, David Day, the creative pair received international acclaim for their Nike campaign which brought the Aurora Borealis to Manchester, garnering over 8 million views in a week and ending up as Nike Football’s most viewed films of the year.
“As Special London continues to grow, it’s important we find talent that are the embodiment of our values and ambitions; Greg and Thomas deliver and surpass on both counts,” Day said.
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“Winners of the first ever yellow, black and white pencil for a single piece of work, with experience at some of the world’s most creative agencies, such as Wieden and Kennedy and BBC Creative, working on brands such as Nike, Volkswagen and Google. We feel so lucky to have these two wonderful human beings at Special London.”
Fazal and Worthington are to date the first team in the world to win a Yellow, White and Black Pencil for a single piece of work at D&AD New Blood for their Nationwide campaign “How it should be” – which in turn earned them a role at Grey London under Nils and Vicki Maguire. They would go on to work at BBC Creative and Havas before joining Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam.
Fazal and Worthington added: “Our mothers never called us special as children so this was our main motivation for joining. Secondary to this was the free Jammie Dodgers. And thirdly it was a chance to help build an agency with some truly, wonderfully, talentedly people.”
