Hello there. I'm Matt Allen, award winning Art Director, husband and father to one wonderful daughter - Clementine. I live in Highbury, North London, much to the amusement of friends, who know me as a life-long Spurs fan. I originally trained in graphic design at the Norwich School of Art, but quickly realised my talents lay in selling useless toot to unsuspecting people, so I headed off to Bucks College to study advertising. Over the years I've worked on pretty much every sort of account going - for big clients, small clients even, believe it or not, nice clients and along the way produced everything from till receipts for Tesco to book covers for Terry Pratchett. If you'd like to know more please contact me for a full CV, in the meantime here's a quick career ‘potted history’.
Cheers. M
1998 Start out as a nipper at Ammirati Puris Lintas.
1999 Just finding my feet, when whispers begin of a merger with Lowe Howard Spink.
Management deny all rumours.
2000 Merge with Lowe Howard Spink.
2001 The newly formed Lowe Lintas wins ‘Agency of the Year’.
(Modestly I take no credit).
2002 Asked by Charles Inge to form part of a start-up he’s planning.
Hesitantly decline the offer.
2002 Promoted to Lowe Board.
2006 Asked by Frank Lowe to form part of a start-up he’s planning.
Daren’t decline the offer.
2006 Move to The Red Brick Road.
2007 Justin Tindall arrives.
07-10 Learn a ton of stuff from him.
2010 Justin leaves.
2010 Acting Head of Art.
2011 Head of Art.
2012 Lose the Tesco account. Oops.
2012 Follow fellow founders ‘out the door’
2013 Begin working for M&C Saatchi.
2015 Leave M&C Saatchi.
2015 - Freelancing at various agencies including: Adam & Eve, FCB Inferno, St Lukes,
McGarry Bowen, Krow and Ogilvy GTB
2018 A freelance role leads to becoming Creative Director of GSK Respiratory.
The first Pharma role of my career. My second quickly followed…
2020 Global Creative Director of GSK Vaccines. That’s right, running one of the world’s
biggest vaccine accounts. In 2020. A quiet year then…