Jeppe Nis Jensen

Dave Jackson

Father of two and husband of one, Dave Jackson is also UX director and co-founder at Dublin based User Experience and Digital Marketing agency, Friday. Daves passion lies in crafting simple, meaningful, and effective user experiences rooted in a robust, user-focused research strategy.

Sam Moorhead

In this episode of Design Dad, co-hosted by Ashwin Chacko and Gerard Whelan we chat with Sam Moorhead. Sam Moorhead is a Creative Director who’s been working in the advertising industry for over a decade. In this time he’s plied his trade across three of Ireland’s biggest agencies - TBWA/Dublin, Boys + Girls, and now Verve, where he leads the in-house ad agency, Showrunner, and Creative Partner, Mikey Fleming. Over the years Sam has worked on several exciting and award-winning campaigns for brands like ALDI, Guinness, Tayto, SKODA, LYONS, and Jose Cuervo.  During his career, Sam has also pursued other creative passion projects. These include creating a Boyband-based comedy series (Boyz on Top), running two creative communities (Shorter Stories & the Side Project), and writing an animated series that is in development (Murphy’s Lore) See Sam's amazing work ⁠⁠⁠here [https://showrunner.ie]. Connect with Us! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ashwin Chacko⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/whackochacko/] & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Gerard Whelan⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/brand.central_/]

Dan Woodger

In this episode of Design Dad, co-hosted by Ashwin Chacko and Gerard Whelan we chat with Dan Woodger. Dan is an illustrator & animation director living and working in Kingston Upon Thames, London. He creates colorful, playful, character-based work designed to brighten your day and make you smile. Inspired by a childhood diet of 90's cartoons his work is an invitation to never grow up & to always find humor in the stupid world around us. See Dan's amazing work ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ [https://danwoodger.com]. Connect with Us! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Ashwin Chacko⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/whackochacko/] & ⁠⁠⁠⁠Gerard Whelan⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/brand.central_/]

Jeppe Nis Jensen

In this episode of Design Dad, co-hosted by Ashwin Chacko and Gerard Whelan we chat with Jeppe. Jeppe is an award-winning creative director and partner at Advice Copenhagen. He is also a rap artist with three albums to his name and often finds himself torn between Midnight Marauders and Illmatic as the greatest album of all time. See Jeppe's amazing work ⁠⁠here⁠ [https://www.illustratorsireland.com/illustrator/maurice-pierse-2/]⁠. Connect with Us! ⁠⁠⁠Ashwin Chacko⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/whackochacko/] & ⁠⁠⁠Gerard Whelan⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/brand.central_/]

Maurice Pierse

In this episode of Design Dad, co-hosted by Ashwin Chacko and Gerard Whelan we chat with Maurise. Maurice Pierse is an Illustrator and visualizer originally from north Kerry but happily living in Dublin for the last few decades, Growing up he was very impressed with both drawing and movies. Ridley Scott was his hero. He ended up working as a storyboard artist and visualizer for film television and advertising as well as doing illustrations for books and packaging, print, and comics. In his spare time he likes to explore traditional media like oil paints, acrylic and water colours usually in a traditional style but recently branching out into more abstract work. He considers himself blessed with an interesting career and mostly great people to work with. See Maurise's amazing work ⁠here [https://www.illustratorsireland.com/illustrator/maurice-pierse-2/]⁠. Connect with Us! ⁠⁠Ashwin Chacko⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/whackochacko/] & ⁠⁠Gerard Whelan⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/brand.central_/]