Occupation Designer | Name Brett Wickens | |
 | ||
Known for Logo and Branding Design Notable work The Logotype for HBOs The Sopranos Music groups Ceramic Hello, Spoons (1979 – 1980) People also search for Gordon Deppe, Sandy Horne, Casey MQ, Chris McNeill | ||
Brett wickens the harbour
Brett Wickens (born April 15, 1961 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a British-Canadian creative director known for his work with identity design. He is a partner for the Ammunition Design Group, and is currently living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Formally, Wickens was a pioneer of Canadian electronic music.
Contents
Biography
Wickens worked with British graphic designer Peter Saville as a partner in his London studio during the 1980s and 90s, where they developed renowned campaigns for clients as diverse as Yohji Yamamoto, Factory Records, Peter Gabriel and the French Ministry of Culture. In 1990 he became an Associate Partner in Pentagram's London office.
In 1993 he moved to Los Angeles to become VP Creative Director at Frankfurt Balkind Partners, where he directed new media initiatives and created campaigns for most of the major Hollywood studios. Wickens designed the logotype for HBOs The Sopranos.
In 1999, Brett became the Global Creative Director of Sapient before joining MetaDesign as VP Creative Director in 2002, where he directed interaction and branding projects for clients including Adobe, Coca-Cola, Four Seasons, McAfee, San Francisco Ballet, SanDisk, Shangri-La Hotels, Sony, Viacom, J&J and FICO.
Wickens was a founding partner of DreamSurface, a mobile application design company best known for the product TimeTuner.
He has been a guest speaker on NPR, contributing editor at EYE magazine, teacher at the California Institute of the Arts, and speaker at many symposia, including the RGD Design Thinkers Conference 2008 in Toronto, and the Creative Review Click Conference 2010 in San Francisco.
Music
Brett was also a pioneer of electronic music in Canada. Brett was a member of the band, Spoons from 1979 until 1980. After leaving Spoons he joined with Paul Abrahams to release a single and album on the Mannequin record label, founded and owned by Abrahams and released an album under the name Ceramic Hello with fellow musician Roger Humphreys that has now been re-released several times. He has composed with William Orbit, Jah Wobble, Andy McCluskey (OMD), Martha Ladly and others.
Personal life
Brett Wickens is married to Coralie Langston-Jones and together they have twins, Jasmine and Sophia. They reside in Lucas Valley in an Eichler house.