Young Ones Student Awards

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Young Ones 2017 Portfolio - Experiential Design Jury

Tim Polder

Dir. Digital/Content

DDB WW

NY/USA

Tim disappointed the family business by wrapping up his medicine degree, before quickly deciding to pursue his love of Creativity and the ability to tell a fun story during the family Christmas dinner. 

He is living this dream by working for kick-ass creative problem solvers. Problem solvers ranging from 'Buutvrij for Life', 'Saatchi & Saatchi', 'Leo Burnett' & 'Cheil Worldwide'. Plans to do more of that brand of work for a very long time. And hopefully save the world along the way. 

Or at least tiny bits of it.

An award-winning creative planner, with a knack for New Business. Has a thing for needles in haystacks, right before diving in and retrieving them. Embraces 'doing', brings an unconventional point of view to projects and has funny hair. Has sold televisions; marketed cameras; rebranded coffee and pharmaceuticals, launched health clubs, ensured dogs were not bothered by fireworks on the 4th of July, made sense of Samsung sponsoring the English National Rugby Team, organised change management workshops, and worked together with Jaguar Land Rover to redefine the future of driving.  He has a broad range of skills to pull from, including UX, a curiosity and understanding of new media, workshop design, big data, events and above all strategy. Many of these skills were honed at Hyper Island.

He has joined DDB NYC as Digital Director from the United Kingdom, where he worked at Cheil as Strategy & Innovation lead. In his spare time he is currently working on changing legislation to allow gay men to donate blood, with the #PUTREDBACK initiative. Which is wonderful, but he should be calling his mum more.

 

 

 

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