Mark Geoffrey Thompson is a Creative Director specialising in design, fashion art direction and branding. Driven by curiosity, collaboration and the ambition to create beautifully crafted communication through storytelling, art direction and design.
With over 16 years experience in the creative industry Mark has worked for and led teams for award winning boutique design and branding agencies like Made Thought, Moving Brands and Wednesday, as well as top global advertising agencies BBH and Mother.
His fashion art direction has led him to work with Brands like Prada, Louis Vuitton, Stella McCartney, Adidas, Gap, Bally, Barbour and many more. Consulting in a brand development and design capacity for companies like Lexus, Grey Goose, Land Rover, Alexa Chung, B&O, Volvo and companies in the lifestyle and fashion sectors.
"I've built and designed brands. I've designed, directed and published magazines. I've written and directed films. I've developed
and art directed brand campaigns. I’ve worked with a wide range of clients from startups with big ambitions, to established global giants. I’ve even branded an entire city. I love what I do and that's now channeled through my freelance consulting work with other creative agencies or direct to brand through my purposely small and agile creative studio Hilt Agency”.
Alongside his creative practice Mark publishes and runs Sunday. A brand platform and magazine that continues to investigate and reshape the motoring conversation, informing how automotive brands speak to new audiences, tapping into culture and new trends.
Working out of both London and Lisbon we are strategically placed, and together with our production partners we produce and deliver creative communication and motoring content across multiple arenas and jaw dropping landscapes, leading us to have worked with Volvo, Lexus and Jaguar Land Rover.
Projects credited in
- Aston Martin Lagonda (1985)“If it were an animal, it would probably be a Manta Ray. Long, flat, secretive and stylish. Actually, they’re probably just as rare — most people still haven’t seen one in the flesh.” So it began, the conversation with Dimitri Labis, lifelong collector of one of the most famous (but largely unknown) supercars in the world. His love affair with Aston Martin’s angular saloon started in 1982, when he caught a glimpse of one round the back of the Hyde Park Towers hotel in Knightsbridge. A teenager a9
- MAO — Brand IdentityVisual identity and packaging for Swedish homeware brand Manufactured Art & Objects. Fragranced soy wax candles made in the valley on the south coast of Sweden by acclaimed Swedish product designer Anne Nilsson.
- Sunday — The Pilot Issue.The Pilot Issue: Trunk Oddity by Alex Tieghi-Walker. The Passenger by Alex Holder. 1985 Aston Martin Lagonda by Leanne Cloudsdale. Take You There photographed by Joe Hunt & styled by Raphael Castelmezzano. The Sunday Photography Journal with Dan Sully, Damien De Blinkk & Sarah Pannell. Reino Lehtonen-Riley interview by Mark Geoffrey Thompson. Peak Curation powered by Volvo XC60 T8 Cover Image: Romain Laprade.2
Work history
Creative DirectorSunday
London, United KingdomFull Time
Motoring & everything on the periphery
Creative DirectorHilt Agency
London, United KingdomFull Time
Hilt is an independent brand, design and creative content agency. We’ve connected
brands to people and people to brands, all through unique story telling, art direction
and design.
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Skills
- Art Direction Creative Direction Styling Photography
- Brand Identiry
- Publishing
- Film
- Creative Direciton
- Brand Storytelling
- Fashion Campaigns
- ART Direction Graphic Design Design Identity Image
- Editorial Design
- Magazine Direction