Business

January 20, 2014

Noah’s Ark appoints Adebola Associate Creative Director

Noah’s Ark appoints Adebola Associate Creative Director

Noah’s Ark Communications Limited, has appointed Babatunde Adebola Associate Creative Director.

He recently graduated from Miami Ad School, Hamburg, Germany after two-year training.

Speaking on the development, Managing Director and Executive Creative Director of the company, Mr. Lanre Adisa, said the addition of   Adebola would further strengthen the creative depth for which the agency was known for in the last five years of its existence.

Adebola started his advertising career as a creative intern at LTC/JWT before joining Bate Cosse as a Creative Executive where he worked on leading brands such as   Virgin Nigeria and UBA.

He was later joined DDB Lagos where he worked as part of the MTN Team.

At DDB, he won the Young Lions Film contest in Nigeria where he represented Nigeria at the Cannes Festival of Creativity in 2009.

Adebola created a cheeky direct marketing campaign whereby Adolf Hitler gave him a recommendation letter to the Miami Ad School for a scholarship.

This went viral and earned him the Lurzer’s Archive scholarship plus a Miami Ad School Grant at the Miami Ad School Europe under the Sir Niklass Frings-Rupp: the D&Ad tutor of the year 2010.

In Germany, he worked at country’s number one agency, Jung Von Matt, on Benz, Bild and Vodafone.

He moved to Germany’s 3rd Digital agency, THJNK, where he worked on Audi, IKEA etc.

Babatunde is the first Nigerian to get his ad into the Lurzer’s Archive.

He is also the only Nige