something about me.

‘Codee would excel if he applied himself
and stopped distracting others’
- Mr. Burden, Year 7 teacher.

‘Black stockings, white shoes,
shouldn’t be allowed in the church’
- Kennedy Davenport, 3rd alternate, RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 7

As the URL suggests, my names Codee. I’m a queer, multidisciplinary creative with an art direction background.

I cut my teeth at Colenso BBDO, Auckland. I spent 5 years there, building my skillset and book across an array of traditional, non-traditional, digital and social campaigns for some of New Zealand’s biggest brands.

As I realised people would pay me to come up with stupid ideas and those stupid ideas quickly turned into smart ones, I decided to make the jump over the ditch and have been stationed at M&C Saatchi Melbourne ever since. It is here that I have been given the opportunity to work towards the growth of the business being a part of a team that has seen the client list quadruple in just over a year. M&C Saatchi has also enabled me to expand my skillset by giving me the chance to work across multiple government campaigns, including Victoria’s ‘Staying apart, keeps us together’ COVID response campaign.

Through all this I have developed a passion and keen interest for creative that plays in the digital and non-traditional space. Ideas that transcend advertising and feel more like an integration into human behavior rather than a picture and some words on a billboard (Although these obvi are fun too).

If you would like to hear/see more of my work then feel free to hit me up.

If you would like to see some art, hit this link up:
https://youtu.be/JDDYcizhRXU?t=1093

Codee