I am an awarded senior art director that has been in this business for 18 years - Twelve years as an art director. I’ve worked on a large range of brands that include: Orion Health, Coca Cola, Cadbury, Speights, Lion Red, Waikato Draught, APN, Premier Beehive, Lufthansa, TelstraClear, Vodafone, Mercury Energy, Uncle Toby’s, Bluebird, Hallensteins, Glassons, VW, The Warehouse, SKY TV, Warehouse Stationery, California Burrito, NZ Lotteries, Orcon, and many more.
Currently I'm the Creative Director at Orion Health, Auckland
Design work on Dribbble
Skateboard design on Instagram
Currently I'm the Creative Director at Orion Health, Auckland
Design work on Dribbble
Skateboard design on Instagram
RECENT WORK
 | YOUNG GUNS SKATE SCHOOL After creating a brand for the Young Guns skate school, including a logo, collateral, posters, language and social adverts we made a video of Auckland's now most famous skateboarder, Wyatt. With over 48 million views in just one week, this viral video popped. Watch Wyatt here |
Press ad for the LA Film Festival's annual "Coffee Talks"
Design and collaboration on the content of the successful Fuck Depression e-book.
DIGITAL CONTENT
A music video for LA based band, Black English - created entirely within GTA5.
Bread and Butter Bakery - Kinetic Typography
DEF Summer Promo I shot and directed on the Phantom Camera.
Rascals Promo which I shot and edited.
HEALTHCARE
A campaign of 3D animation videos for Orion Health.
A poster campaign for Orion Health
DIGITAL
My digital work can we viewed here and a large digital experiential site I concepted, designed and developed is here.
INTEGRATED
This integrated campaign won the Grand Prix Lotus 360 award at Adfest, 2010.
WEBSITE DESIGN
I designed, and developed the functionality of the new Orion Health corporate website.
BRANDING
Branding exercise for royaschiabeads.com/Roya's Chia Beads drink
Branding exercise and packaging design for Woof - NZ Natural Petfood.
SKATEBOARD DESIGN
A collection of my ideas and designs for skate graphics
A controversial campaign for ESHE skateboards which received worldwide news (and several death-threats)
DEF Skateboards - Shoe decks. To accompany the DEF Summer Promo video.
TVCs
This charity campaign won Bronze at Cannes and Bronze at Clio.
Cadbury Freddo TVC
Cadbury Space TVC
Stop Motion fashion ad for board shorts.
1 execution of a ten part alternate ending campaign for Chewy.
Stop Motion ad for Warehouse Stationery - Back to School
MUSIC VIDEOS
Two music videos I shot and directed
SHORT FILMS
A selection of some of the awarded short films I've shot and directed
SKATEBOARDING
I shoot, edit and skate in many skateboard videos
This billboard caused a little controversy for Ace Rentals.
| Design Work Portfolio |
| leighton_print_portfolio.pdf |
| leighton_cv.pdf |
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