Paul Cardwell is Chairman and Creative Director of Doner Cardwell Hawkins. The " Creature Comforts" advertising campaign that he created with

Nick Park Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker and animator who created '' Wallace & Gromit'', '' Creature Comforts'', '' Chicken Run'', '' Shaun the Sheep'', and '' Early Man''. Park has been nominated for an Academy ...

and Phil Rylance won a

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award and went on to win almost every major advertising award in the world. These commercials were voted fourth in the alltime ''100 Greatest TV Ads'' by viewers of

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. Since 1995 he has been a director of the

Mariinsky Theatre The Mariinsky Theatre (, also transcribed as Maryinsky or Mariyinsky) is a historic opera house in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th-century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces ...

Trust, managing the visits of the

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and

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, formerly the Kirov. In 2004 he designed the stage sets for a performance by the artistic director,

Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (, ; ; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conducting, conductor and opera company director. He is currently general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and of the Bolshoi Theatre and artistic director o ...

, to commemorate the

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. The performance was broadcast worldwide by the

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. In 2011 he moved to Turin where he was International Creative Director at Armando Testa (https://www.armandotesta.it/en/) agency. 2012-2017 Executive Creative Director at Brand Union, Dubai. Work for Abdul Latif Jameel (https://www.alj.com/en/community-jameel) won international recognition, including Gold at Graphis (https://www.graphis.com/entry/71a56a50-c657-488f-b3b4-31672d45a9c7/) the first time an Arabic brand has achieved this level of recognition. 2017-2019 Head of Communications at Brand Union, London, which became Superunion (https://www.superunion.com/). The launch of the new LEVEL airline (https://www.flylevel.com/) was chosen as No5 in best airline designs of all time (https://www.creativebloq.com/inspiration/6-best-airline-logos-of-all-time-and-why-they-work) and awarded a pencil at D&AD (https://www.superunion.com/news/five-dad-pencils-wins/) In 2019 Cardwell established a new brand agency - Saboteur(https://saboteur.studio/)- with Alex Clegg and Nick Eagleton. An early project was the re-naming of Colston Hall in Bristol (http://bristolbeacon.org/new-name/) which will now be the Bristol Beacon.

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