Phil Dunstan-Brown Email & Phone Number

Wellington, NZ

Using an approach that puts humans at the centre of all we do, I’m part of a dynamically resourced team that create deep and engaging experiences across brand, communications and digital.

Wellington, New Zealand

My own consultancy practice. Creative Strategy, Design and Art Direction. I work for private clients who are seeking experience but not the overhead. I also work on a Freelance basis into other agencies who need a senior head but still a functioning practitioner.

DNA is one of New Zealand's most successful Brand Consultancies, specialising in Customer Experience Design and produces some of New Zealand's most innovative design work across both digital and brand in a truly integrated way. Here, I'm responsible for the creative product produced by the team and how we infuse strategy into our creative outputs.

I helped oversee the establishment of the successful design division of Clemenger Wellington. This included cementing some of Clemenger's above- the-line clients as long term design clients. It was a tight, focussed and (at the time) highly profitable team. We went from being an almost complete unknown to being an industry player. Garnered with awards and.

Established as the company that merged between HKM Advertising and Colenso Advertising. I helped lead the establishment of the Design Division, and helped manage the process during the merger.

HKM Advertising was a Clemenger Agency. I started off here as a Junior Art Director and ended up helping run the Design Group and over seeing creative for all direct marketing. This was all in the days of long lunches at Il Casino; Remiro Bresolin breezing around with $60 cigars and $120 Cognacs.

I started early in 1989 as a designer and visualiser, with a brand new set of 200 Yoken markers and a drawing board. Clearly remember the smell of wax and cow gum, hot and late nights beneath a Grant Enlarger, the smell of the bromide developper and spray glue. I finished up working as an art director, working alongside some very capable writers. J Walter.