Live & Breath Recruit Six New Additions

Live & Breathe has bolstered its creative and account management teams with four new hires designed to service recent business wins such as Pernod Ricard and Thomas Cook.

Tara Blackmore joins Live & Breathe as senior designer, overseeing and delivering conceptual design for its Pernod Ricard, Bird’s Eye, Danone and Thomas Cook accounts.

Prior to Live & Breathe, Blackmore worked at Mars Y&R London as art director overseeing its Bombay Sapphire and Samsung accounts.

Sadie Majer comes to the agency as lead copywriter on the Thomas Cook business. She joins from below-the-line design agency, Bluestone360, where she worked for clients in the FMCG, legal, leisure and automotive sectors, including: Ginsters, Danepak and Wrigley.

Blackmore and Majer will report into creative director James Hoxley.

Also joining the agency is Fran Turner who arrives as account manager to work on the Thomas Cook account, overseeing all brand campaigns. She arrives from babyGRAND Marketing, where she worked across a range of clients from large retailers such as TK Maxx, to small start-ups.

Michael Gale comes to Live & Breathe as account executive supporting Turner on the Thomas Cook account.  He joins from Tag where he worked on its H&M account assisting on global campaigns across outdoor, POS and press.

Turner and Gale will report into Jason Waghorn, board account director.

The Leeds office is also boosting its creative team with two new appointments.

Phil Turner joins as designer and will work across the agency’s full portfolio of clients including Morrisons, Cancer Research UK and Unilever. Turner comes to the agency from Network Design & Marketing where he was graphic designer for three years. The agency has also hired Claire Horsfall as senior artworker who joins later this month from Outside the Box.

Gray commented: “As an agency, we are committed to recruiting the freshest talent in the industry. The appointments reflect a succession of new business wins, and more importantly, signal our commitment to investing in our future through the development of quality people."