Gary Helps

Creative Direction

Belleville, Canada

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About

Gary Helps Creative Direction provides professional art direction, design, copy writing, photographic and illustrative services to small and medium sized companies desiring to significantly improve their profitability through the creation of higher awareness, improved traffic and/or consumer education of their products or services.
Education
- part time Advertising
  
  Ontario College of Art - presently OCADU
  
  1966 - 1967
  
  Blessed with natural creative ability which has sustained a career of 50 years. Finished high school, took part time classes at what was previously named OCA .
Experience
- Last position: Creative Group Head
  
  Baker Lovick Advertising
  
  Toronto, Canada
  
  Oct 1984 - Oct 1986 (2 years)
  
  My early career (1966-1986) consisted of 20 years as an art director, designer and copy writer in the employ of major ad agencies Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson (twice), Ted Bates, Kenyon & Eckhardt, McCann-Erickson S.A., SSC&B Lintas and Baker Lovick with account responsibilities on over 40 major brands including, Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Company, Labatt Breweries, Lipton Tea, Quaker Foods, etc. In 1986 I incorporated and since have managed a diverse list of retail and service-oriented accounts offering creative services ranging from art direction, copy writing, photography, illustration to all aspects of design and production.
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