Adam Collins Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, Canada Area

Handmade Insights + Strategy is all about guiding teams to create brilliant brands, content and services for people. Happy to plug into your team and your projects. From fast "we need help now" strategy freelance to longer term planning + qualitative insights assignments. Services include : advertising strategy, brand positioning, stakeholder interviewing, customer journey mapping, experience strategy, innovation + prototyping workshops, creative qualitative research, ethnographic research, experience / service blueprinting for brand experience, customer experience (cx) and service design (sd)

Vancouver, Canada Area

Handmade helps guide companies to create better products, services and brands for people through human-centred design strategy. Our team employs a creative mix of exploratory and evaluative insights techniques to help you get a richer picture of the people you're designing for. Thinking beyond traditional focus groups, we embrace new ways of engaging people in research, through ethnography and in-the-moment methods. Everything is brought to life through hands-on workshops and visual frameworks for maximum insight and maximum inspiration.

Vancouver, Canada Area

London, United Kingdom

Grey London is driven by a shared dissatisfaction with how the industry behaves and works.No agency in London has changed more than Grey over the past 24 months. We are ambitious, energetic and hungry for success - happy to be challenged by whatever the market throws at usClient Experience: Vodafone Global, Vodafone Ireland, Lucozade (GSK)Hyper Island Boot Camp 2012 Graduate

Maclaren McCann is a fully integrated marketing solutions company. Working together as one team with one bottom line, we’re Canada’s largest agency. We're on a mission to prove that really big can be really great. In 2010, MacLaren was the most awarded agency in the country.Client Experience : Nestle, National Lottery, Xbox, HP, Bayer, YMCA

Zulu Alpha Kilo is the creative company founded by Zak Mroueh, formerly of TAXI. Everyone sits together and works together as one creative collective. No departments, no silos, no egos. Big name clients include Coke, Puma and Bell.Client Experience:Bell, Workopolis.com, Carleton University

TAXI's mission is to create an environment that attracts bright people and challenges them to do great things that are socially and economically relevant. One philosophy drives the pursuit : Doubt the Conventional, Create the Exceptional. Internationally acclaimed, TAXI operates in New York, Amsterdam and across Canada.Client Experience: Viagra, Aviva, Molson brand, TELUS.Key Awards : 2011 National Advertising Effectiveness CASSIE Silver for Rickard's2010 National Advertising Effectiveness CASSIE "Best Insight" for Aviva2009 Cannes Gold Lion for Viagra, http://bit.ly/2SKVps

Born in 1999 and ahead of time, zig championed “ideas in their most powerful form.” An innovative structure meant planners worked side-by-side with creatives to pursue solutions beyond traditional advertising. The hot-shop attracted big names brands like IKEA, Virgin, Unilever & Molson. Rebranded, zig became Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) Canada.Client Experience: Unilever, Molson, Maple Leaf Foods, Forester's Financial Services Key Awards: National Effectiveness CASSIE for nation’s largest beer brand, http://bit.ly/4LZy5C

Leo Burnett is a full-service, multi-national advertising and marketing firm. Our purpose is to be the world's best creator of ideas that move people - bar none. Client Experience:See Below, continued on same clients when Leo merged with D'Arcy.

D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) was a major advertising agency in the United States with offices worldwide. It was acquired by Publicis Groupe and merged with Leo Burnett in 2002.Client Experience:COI : DVLA, Department of Health, NHS recruitment, Social Work Recruitment.Mars : Mars Bar, SkittlesKey Awards:Cannes Gold Lion 2001, 2002 for Social Work Recruitment see http://bit.ly/8CAUZx. Voted one of the 10 best recruitment ads of all time by Campaign magazine.

Between 1994 and 1999 Ammirati Puris Lintas (APL) was the second global advertising network within Interpublic, until it was merged with stablemate Lowe & Partners to form Lowe Lintas & Partners Worldwide.Client Experience:Learnt Ropes. Lots of late nights pitching etc.