DAN LAMBDEN
EARNED-FIRST CREATIVE & STRATEGY DIRECTOR
EARNED-FIRST CREATIVE & STRATEGY DIRECTOR
I’m an award-winning, curiosity-fuelled, and relentlessly strategic Creative Director with 15+ years of experience leading impactful UK and global PR & social campaigns.
I specialise in brand storytelling, cultural strategy, and conceptual creativity, turning brands from background noise into talking points.
I thrive on helping brands earn attention - not just buy it. While many brands make fleeting appearances in people’s lives, a select few can become part of the fabric of daily routines and cultural rituals. That’s where I come in.
Great marketing isn’t just about what a brand says, it’s about what it does and how it makes people feel. I believe the magic happens when bold creative risk-taking collides with deep human insight - the unspoken, mysterious, weird, hysterical, and seemingly unremarkable truths that make us tick. That’s how you move from being seen to being remembered - and ultimatley, bought.
I currently sit on the PRCA Creative Committee. I am also a judge for UK Young Lions, PR Week UK Awards, Brand Film Awards and Creative Circle Awards.
Creative Director
Jan 2015 - Present
Huawei, McDonald's, Samsung, Aldi, Boots, M&S, KP Snacks, Britvic, Currys, DFS, Pets at Home, Redrow, Emirates, PlayStation, Activistion, Square Enix, Vestel, Checkatrade.com, Gumtree, Ancestry, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle, Avon, Boots, Sky, USwitch, Redrow, Four Seasons, Heathrow, TotalJobs, Ecover, Cent
Creative Director
Jan 2015 - Present
Huawei, McDonald's, Samsung, Aldi, Boots, M&S, KP Snacks, Britvic, Currys, DFS, Pets at Home, Redrow, Emirates, PlayStation, Activistion, Square Enix, Vestel, Checkatrade.com, Gumtree, Ancestry, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle, Avon, Boots, Sky, USwitch, Redrow, Four Seasons, Heathrow, TotalJobs, Ecover, Centre Parcs, Royal Caribbean Cruises, The London Eye, Centrepoint, RNLI
Senior Account Manager
Oct 2013 - Dec 2014
Discovery UK (TLC, Quest, Animal Planet), Parragon Books, Empire Cinemas, Peugeot, MasterCard, Warner Bros Ents
Account Manager
May 2011 - Oct 2013
Walkers Crisps, M&M'S, ASDA, Vodafone, Birds Eye, Mars Petcare, Carphone Warehouse, ITV's Text Santa, CompareTheMarket.com
Red Carpet & Media Management: Film BAFTA Film Awards, BAFTA Game Awards, BAFTA Television Awards, London 2012 Paralympic Games Torch Lighting Ceremony, Arthur's Day 2012, GUCCI presen
Account Manager
May 2011 - Oct 2013
Walkers Crisps, M&M'S, ASDA, Vodafone, Birds Eye, Mars Petcare, Carphone Warehouse, ITV's Text Santa, CompareTheMarket.com
Red Carpet & Media Management: Film BAFTA Film Awards, BAFTA Game Awards, BAFTA Television Awards, London 2012 Paralympic Games Torch Lighting Ceremony, Arthur's Day 2012, GUCCI presents Chime for Change, Burberry Prorsum Spring 2014: London Collections Men. Premieres: Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Abduction, Horrible Bosses, The Inbetweeners Movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Amazing Spiderman, MIB3, Les Miserables, Skyfall, Star Trek
Account Executive
Aug 2009 - May 2011
Confused.com, Sky, Magners, Carling, Orange, The Big Lunch, Motorola, vinspired, V Festival, Yahoo!, Coke, Bovril, Thomas & Friends
CREATIVE SHOOTOUT WINNERS 2023
GUEST LECTURER AT WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY
SUPPORTER OF CENTREPOINT CHARITY
Neurodivergent; proudly LGBT; Marvel Comics fanboy; fantasy novel escapist; rookie D&D player (Level 3 Druid); Cat Dad x 2; competitive CrossFitter; lapsed sitcom writer; terrible photographer; musical theatre geek; Greek mythology buff; festival goer; tattoo lover; excellent pub quiz team member; in an abusive relationship with DuoLingo; has a 'sixth sense' for a celeb spot.
Fancy a chat? Message me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danlambden/
Dan Lambden - Creative Director