Roger Kennedy

Be Bigger Than the Biggest Mac

Event Details
JWT Building 1 Knightsbridge Green
London SW1X 7NW
29 January 2009 7:00pm

Roger Kennedy is co-founder and joint Creative Director of R&R Creative Communications.

He started his career as a typographer/designer and worked for several leading London advertising agencies before joining Saatchi & Saatchi in 1975. Before leaving in May 2010, he was Director of Art and Design for Saatchi & Saatchi Europe, Middle East and Africa. He was elected to the Saatchi & Saatchi board of directors in 1987 and worked on most of the agency’s business, including three winning Conservative Election Campaigns. He also designs books, including the best selling ‘It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be’, by Paul Arden.

His personal awards as a designer/typographer include D&AD Pencils,
4 Campaign Press silvers, 2 Campaign Poster silvers, 3 Creative Circle silvers and in 2002 he received The Creative Circle President’s Award. He has been credited more than 200 times in the D&AD Annual and has been creatively involved with work winning 4 Gold Cannes Lions. He has served on juries judging The Kinsale Sharks, The D&AD awards on 8 different occasions, Campaign Poster and Campaign Press awards, The Scottish Advertising Awards, The Roses Awards, and has chaired The Irish Advertising and Design Awards.