Special London has hired the multi-award-winning creative team Gregory Fazal and Thomas Worthington as sr. creatives. The duo will work across Special clients including Employment Hero and Uber. They report to David Day, chief creative officer and partner.
Fazal and Worthington join from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam where they brought the Aurora Borealis to the skies of Manchester for Nike in a campaign that garnered over 8 million views in a week, and became one of Nike Football’s most viewed films of the year.
During their time at W+K, they also created the “Every Decision Counts” work for Google, one of the tech giant’s first ever sustainability campaigns.
Fazal and Worthington started their careers as 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.” This landed them a job at Grey London working under Vicki Maguire and Nils Leonard, before they went on to work at BBC Creative, Havas and W+K Amsterdam.
The duo’s creative credits also include brands such as BBC, Volkswagen, Comic Relief and Durex.
Along with creating international award-winning work in advertising, Fazal and Worthington have also directed short films, authored a children’s book, a football magazine, comic book and an Apple Top 100 podcast, called Walking on Jupiter, a true story about surviving suicide, narrated by actor Stephen Graham.
CCO Day said, “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.”
In a joint statement, Fazal and Worthington shared what drew them to Special London: “Our mothers never called us special as children so this was our main motivation for joining. Secondary to this was the free Jammy Dodgers. And thirdly it was a chance to help build an agency with some truly, wonderfully, talentedly people.”
