Creative Director

JP Twaalfhoven

  • Special Group, New Zealand
                                                     
    Creative Director
    October 2023—present

    Clemenger BBDO, Wellington
                                                     
    Creative Director
    June 2020—September 2023

    Senior Creative/Copywriter
    June 2015—May 2020

    Saatchi & Saatchi, Wellington/Auckland
                                                     
    Creative/Copywriter
    July 2010—June 2015

  • Axis Creative Awards
                                                     
    Design Craft & Film Jury, 2024
    Film & Branded Content Jury, 2023
    Film Craft Jury, 2022

    One Asia Creative Awards
                                                     
    Jury, 2021

    BestAds
                                                     
    Judge, 2021

    ORCA Radio Awards
                                                     
    Jury, 2020

  • Media Design School
                                                     
    Mentor 2019
    Mentor 2020
    Mentor 2021

I’m JP.

My work has— Won Lions & Pencils. Ranked in the WARC 100. Received a Grand Global Effie. Earned 250+ global creative awards. Featured on the cover of Lürzer's Archive. Been inducted into Poster House Gallery, NY. Claimed New Zealand’s Best in Show (three times). Made The Good Report’s Top 40 Campaigns for Good. Battled it out live on-stage in D&AD’s Side Hustle Competition. Garnered the title of 'world’s best COVID-19 response’ by Bloomberg. Been judged ‘one of the world’s most outstanding designs’ by Dezeen Mag. And been seen, shared – and even worn on peoples' shoulders – across the globe.

I collide creativity with cause. Creative Directing globally recognised behaviour change campaigns. And co-founding/co-designing KYT Bags, an award-winning lifestyle label empowering the diabetes community through better design.

Find me here: jp.twaalfhoven1@gmail.com

(yep, there’s another JP Twaalfhoven out there, somewhere)

I’m JP.

I collide creativity with cause. Creative Directing globally recognised behaviour change campaigns. And co-founding/co-designing KYT Bags, an award-winning lifestyle label empowering the diabetes community through better design.

My work has: Won Lions & Pencils Ranked in the WARC 100 • Received a Grand Global Effie • Earned 250+ global creative awards • Featured on the cover of Lürzer's Archive • Been inducted into Poster House Gallery, NY • Claimed New Zealand’s Best in Show (three times) • Made The Good Report’s Top 40 Campaigns for Good • Battled it out live on-stage in D&AD’s Side Hustle Competition • Garnered the title of 'world’s best COVID-19 response’ by Bloomberg • Been judged ‘one of the world’s most outstanding designs’ by Dezeen Mag • And been seen, shared – and even worn on peoples' shoulders – across the globe.

Find me here: jp.twaalfhoven1@gmail.com

(yep, there’s another JP Twaalfhoven out there, somewhere)