Alright.

Mark Freeman here. I’m a creative director. I build culturally resonant idea-led brand platforms and orchestrate collaborative multi-disciplinary teams to help deliver and amplify them. With plenty of glee, together we make sure that they connect emotionally, visually and socially.

I apply this approach to LOOSE.fm, a cultural community/live radio platform, now based in London’s Design District, which I founded and run. I also currently consult for NGOs, agencies and global brands on creative direction and strategy.

I like to keep my mind and hands busy on ideation and craft, whatever the raw materials, though my focus is always on creating ideas that find new space, stand out, move fast through channels and play a part in reshaping audience perception.

I’m available for consultancy contracts. Open to permanent positions.

I love to lead teams to big ideas and to their execution.

If you need me to be, I’ll be the visionary: I’ll set up the dream and sail us all into it.

But I’m also an energetic, hands-on type of director - I don’t just leave the team to it, and love to get busy: formulating ideas, working up copy, editing, sub-editing, art directing, opening Adobe suite to draft, scamp and tweak, producing audio, writing music, storyboarding, casting, directing and styling shoots, designing and writing decks, delivering (and winning) pitches... I could go on.

If you’d like me on your team, hit me up here:

More about me...

I’m an empathetic, inspirational leader, manager and colleague

I tend to know what’s current and can often see what’s ahead, predicting trends by being informed by the temperature of the present and the patterns of the past

I love analogue things just as much as digital things, and I vibe off fusing the two together

I’ve been a mentor for NABS, helping young people starting out in the advertising industry

I’m a first rate public speaker (all-time top 5 for IAB Engage)

I’m a music and culture obsessive, a DJ, songwriter and party-planner

I like my fashion and my garms

Family and friends are #1

I’m a championing advocate of neurodiversity in the workplace

I love conversation, boardgames, reading, running, sharing food, taking in art, movies, theatre, hanging out with interesting people and travelling to interesting places