Johannes Leonardo Creatives Named to Adweek’s Creative 100

Adweek has named Johannes Leonardo creatives Jeph Burton and Hunter Hampton to its annual Creative 100. The pair were listed in the Rising Agency Stars section that called out “the next generation of creative icons.”

“Since joining the agency, Jeph and Hunter have proven to be invaluable creative forces behind the work that we do for adidas Originals,” said Jan Jacobs and Leo Premutico, co-founders of Johannes Leonardo. 

During their time at Johannes Leonardo working on the adidas Originals account, Jeph and Hunter have helped raise the creative bar for the brand, having worked on last year’s Grand Prix and Effie-winning “Original is Never Finished” along with this year’s follow up.

During their time at Johannes Leonardo, Jeph and Hunter played a crucial role in executing work for Vroom for the Bezos Family Foundation, and also winning and launching the Sonnet business. Shortly thereafter, they moved full-time to adidas Originals, where they were a part of one of the most awarded campaigns of 2017: adidas Originals’ “Original is never finished,” which among its accolades, included a Grand Prix in Music Entertainment that year. Since then, they have continued to create category-breaking work for The Brand with the Three Stripes, including “The Last Encore,” a resurrection of the notorious hip-hop venue The Tunnel, and “The September Non-Issue,” an assault on high fashion’s perceived reign over streetwear.

The duo joined Johannes Leonardo in the summer of 2015, coming off the back of winning their first Lion at their previous agency, The Bull-White House, for The Cancer Sutra—an adaptation of the Kama Sutra that proposed if people weren’t going to be so good at checking themselves as regularly as they should, then maybe they’d be more excited about checking someone else. After being married to their work for quite some time, the pair went on to marry

each other in 2016.