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Ocean’s 17

The heist into the minds of the London International Awards Jury Presidents continues.
Read on LBBO

London International Awards jury presidents to be featured in podcast ‘Oceans 15’

“Transatlantic,” the video podcast with a lot of water in it, created and hosted by Simone Nobili (Global Group Creative Director at Wunderman Thompson NY) is landing in Vegas for the 2022 London International Awards (LIA) festival. Simone crossed some of the biggest oceans in the industry in 2021. He’s now ready to cross the waters of the Jury Presidents of the LIA Awards show.
This special edition will be broadcast live at Encore/Wynn, Las Vegas, from September 30 to October 05, running concurrently with LIA judging. In a room where red will be the dominant color and casino chips will be scattered across a coffee table, Simone will use “The 7 Seas Interview” format to dive deep into the lives and work of his guests, bringing to the surface undiscovered stories.
Watch the episodes on TRANSATLANTIC

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It’s A new day, it’s a new life.

…and I am feeling good. Read more on Shots, Little Black Book, and Ad Forum.

Thanks to Little Black Book for opening the doors and letting my thoughts come in. Read HERE

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An heartfelt thank you to VoyageLA magazine for featuring me in their interview series.
Read about my journey here

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My latest short film, which I wrote and co-directed, was featured by the London International Awards, The One Club and the American Photographic Artists. It all began with a poem I penned to my kid.
What the short film here

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2021 has begun with the right foot on the right boat. TRANSATLANTIC has struck another big partner. Starting January 14th, every Thursday Art Directors Club Italiano will be streaming my ocean-crossing interviews on their channels. Stay on the water with us and don’t forget to subscribe to TRANSATLANTIC on YouTube.

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TRANSATLANTIC, the video podcast with a lot of water in it, started in September 2020 but has already attracted big partners. Every week the London International Awards is featuring new episodes on their Insider. Stay on the water with us and don’t forget to subscribe to TRANSATLANTIC on YouTube.

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My coloring book made of unwanted and rejected sketches to help fight Alzheimer's took home the prize at the 2020 Multicultural Excellence Awards, in the category of People with Disabilities. I want to thank the peeps at KLA for believing in me and supporting the production and printing of Beautiful Minds. Case study below.

Beautiful Minds

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Creative waste can go a long way. Thanks to Muse by THE CLIO AWARDS for covering our project “Beautiful Minds. The art of fighting Alzheimer’s”. June is Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month, if someone in your family is affected by this terrible disease, write us at beautifulminds@kastner.agency and we will ship a copy of our book for free.

Recognizing CREATIVE WASTE

On the night of May 13th in London, 40 rejected drawings that I plucked out of the trash in my Los Angeles office were recognized among other amazing pieces of work. Thanks to the jury of THE CAPLES AWARDS, John Hegarty and those who supported me throughout the making of “Beautiful Minds, The Art Of Fighting Alzheimer’s”. What we often consider useless and unworthy can have a bigger purpose in life. To learn more about the project and on the impact it had on the Alzheimer’s community, visit thevotedproject.com

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I collaborated with Netflix Italian director Sebastiano Facco on a short film about the drama of life in quarantine in Italy, called “Voices of Lockdown”. Our intent was to uncover the untold stories from the Italian lockdown, since the world has only been exposed to the cheerful singing of Italians from their balconies. Campaign US wrote a heartfelt article on our work and how it was conceived.

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A simple idea born out of staring at two letters on my keyboard got ranked among big players like Facebook, Nike and Dove.
Watch The World Is Still A WE

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And so it happened, finally. Muse by The Clio Awards wrote about my poetry in English. I guess this is going to make my mom really proud and my Italian language really mad at me.
link> Chemical Stories by Nembutal

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How a wacky idea I had on a random afternoon made it into ADWEEK’s Best Holiday Cards of 2019.
Read on Campaign US how the idea was conceived and The Drum about the best agency Christmas cards around the globe.

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link > How an idea I had on my lunch break became one of the best agency Christmas cards from around the globe.

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in 2017, while freelancing for the LinkedIn Creative Studio, I thought that the best way to visualize the moonshot that each of us take on a daily basis on the platform, was to have a talented young girl - whose heart was filled with trailblazing dreams - sing “Fly Me To The Moon”. Angelina Jordan was only 11-years-old at the time but her talent was unquestionably timeless (and it still is). In the end, I didn’t want to create just an ad, but gift the LinkedIn audience with a song to listen to while reminding them that your profile can take you anywhere.

A kid from somewhere

Il Messaggero, a national daily newspaper, celebrated my American journey. For my dad, an 80-year-old man who likes to buy its paper, May 29, 2020 was a morning to remember.
“The American Dream without forgetting the hometown roots”

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Honored to be featured in the issue #44 of ITALIANY, a visual tribute to those Italians who left their families to forge career paths in the U.S. Created by art fashion photographer Alexo Wandael (Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Observer, The Telegraph), the project has been shown in exhibitions in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.
issue #144 - Simone Nobili

MY STORY ON iTUNES

I was invited by Egyptian-born comedian Tamer Kattan and his mother Kity on their podcast show to share my American story. If you can get past my Italian accent, you'll find me on iTunes, sharing some crazy anecdotes that made me who I am.
link > Ep 22: Italy - Crossing Brooklyn Bridge

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excerpt from the article:

"We asked a few of the agency world’s more renowned creatives to tell us about their favorite collectibles. Whether passionate about shot glasses or motorcycles, these creatives find inspiration both in the office and out with their offbeat gewgaws".
link > Simone Nobili & Harley-Davidson

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I was invited by Professor Rochelle Webb at LMU to talk to a selected group of MBA students. My lecture included psychological techniques like the “nuclear bomb chicken test” first performed by Stella Adler.

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Thanks to YouMark, one of the leading Italian magazines of all things marketing, for giving me the chance to share my experience and my learnings as an international creative.
Video interview here (sorry, not subtitles).

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I was invited by Miami Ad School in San Francisco to be a guest speaker for their Industry Heroes series. My keynote highlighted the importance of knowing your restrictions, given by a solid and brilliant brief, before exercising your creative freedom.

EXPERIENCE

WUNDERMAN THOMPSON New York - Global Group Creative Director / Full-Time

R/GA New York - Freelance Executive Creative Director / Q4 2021 & Q1 2022

THE MANY Los Angeles - Freelance Creative Director / Q3 &Q4 2021

EDELMAN New York - Freelance Creative Director / Q2 2021

AREA 23 New York - Freelance Creative Director / Q1 2021

3DOTSFILM Los Angeles / 2017 to present
Film Director & Writer

BSSP San Francisco / January 2017 to April 2017
Freelance Creative Director

LINKEDIN San Francisco / 2016 to end of 2016
Freelance Creative Director

AKQA San Francisco / 2015 to 2016
Creative Director

CUTWATER San Francisco / 2014 to 2015
Creative Director

ViTRO San Diego / 2011 to 2014
Creative Director

DIGITAS HEALTH New York / 2010 to 2011
Creative Director

TBWA\Worldwide London/NY/LA/ 2006 to 2010
Creative Director

JUNG VON MATT Hamburg/ 2005 to 2006
Senior Copywriter

LEO BURNETT Milan/ 2000 to 2004
Senior Copywriter

J.W.T. Rome/ 1998 to 1999
Junior Copywriter