Nathalie Turton and Lorelei Mathias

Hello.

Lolly and Nat are an award winning middleweight creative team from London. They have just finished a three month stint at BBH and are now freelancing at Glue London.

They write a blog for Campaign which began when they went to Cannes last year to represent the UK in the Cannes Young Lions Competition. You can find the blog on the Campaign homepage and here:

http://community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/younglionsfromcannes/default.aspx

They've won some awards along the way:

Hospital Club 2008 Creative Award - shortlisted by Trevor Beattie

Grand Prix for Halo 3

Andy Awards for Halo 3

Campaign 'Big' Award for Jake Courage Halo 3

Gold Cubes at New York Art Directors Club 2008 for Halo 3

Yellow Pencil at D&AD for Halo 3

Campaign of The Quarter for Book Marketing Society Awards for 'Step On it, Cupid'

CBS Underground Writer 2008 competition - shortlisted for 'Lost for Words'

Young Creative Network Award 2004

A bit about LOLLY:

After getting a first in English & Philosophy at Birmingham University Lol started her career as an in-house Creative at Random House Publishing, dreaming up big outdoor campaigns for Grisham, Nigella Lawson and others. She then ended up writing a couple of her own books and had them published - you can see all about her second life as a chick-lit novelist at www.loreleimathias.com

Lol enjoys coming up with low budget ways to advertise her own books, and as a result she often dabbles in journalism and public speaking on the theme of viral marketing and book trailers. After her years in publishing Lol went agency side, and for the last three years has worked in a range of places, from AIS... to WCRS. Most recently she's worked with Nat at Rapier, 4Creative, Devilfish, Euros in London and Paris, BMB, Exposure and BBH.

A bit about NAT:

Nat is a traditionally trained creative. After graduating from Central Saint Martins she did 8 months of placements at agencies such as TBWA, DDB, HHCL, AMV, WTCH and Feel. She then got snapped up by Trevor Beattie and was hired as an art director at TBWA. After working there a year on major TV accounts she then went freelance and has worked at places such as BMB, Lunar BBDO, Agency.com, Soup, McCann Erickson, Rapier, 4Creative, Devilfish, Euros in London and Paris, BMB, Exposure and BBH.

Lol and Nat have been a team since January '08. Soon after they got together they won the UK round of the Cannes Young Lions 2008 competition where they went to Cannes and battled it out against 30 other creative teams from around the globe to write, cast, shoot, and edit a 1 minute viral in 48 hours. You can see the viral here: http://share.ovi.com/media/YoungLions2008.public/YoungLions2008.10104

There's also a slightly iffy MTV documentary about them here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CkQlDirauk

A bit about them both:

They love swimming outdoors. They hate management-speak. And they are both currently looking for more fabulous freelance work, or a permanent job that is worth giving up the freelance life for.