My name is Tommy and I'm an ACD / Art Director currently at Courage, making cool shit with my creative partner Matt Miller. I like tech gadgets, video games and most nerdy things.Feel free to say hi back.

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experience

Courage Inc.  //  Associate Creative Director
August 2022 - PresentTAXI  //  Art Director
May 2022 - August 2022No Fixed Address Inc.  //  Art Director
July 2019 - May 2022Grip Limited  //  Junior Art Director
May 2018 - July 2019Singapore Armed Forces  //  Corporal + Graphic Designer
June 2012 - June 2014
_{Served in the Armed Forces for National Service, being a Singaporean citizen.}

education

OCAD University  //  Bachelor of Design (Advertising)
2014 - 2018Temasek Polytechnic  //  Diploma of Visual Communication
2009 - 2012

recognition

2024 - Adweek Creative 100
2024 - Muse by Clio InterviewCannes Lions
1 x Silver
3 x ShortlistThe One Show
2 x Merit
6 x ShortlistD&AD
1 x ShortlistClio Awards
1 x Bronze
1 x ShortlistAndy Awards
1 x Gold
1 x ShortlistADC Awards
1 x Bronze
2 x MeritEffie Awards
1 x Gold
1 x BronzeWebby Awards
1 x People’s VoiceApplied Arts
24 x FeaturesADCC
6 x BronzeStrategy Awards
2 x Gold
1 x Silver
1 x BronzeMarketing Awards
1 x Gold
6 x Silver
7 x Bronze
3 x MeritAToMiC Awards
4 x Silver
4 x BronzeShopper Innovation + Activation Awards
2 x Gold
4 x Silver
1 x BronzeMedia Innovation Awards
1 x Gold
1 x Silver
1 x BronzeCMA Awards
1 x Gold
1 x SilverNew York Festivals
1 x Gold
1 x Silver
1 x Bronze
5 x FinalistsMUSE Creative Awards
2 x Platinum
1 x SilverCPRS ACE Awards
1 x Silver
1 x BronzeNational Advertising Challenge
1 x Bronze

AI is increasingly tasked with doing just about everything. But when a Google DeepMind study detailed how prompting “take a breath” before a request improves the accuracy of the response, it had us thinking — would this work with the world’s most iconic tagline?

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattACD/Copywriter: Matt MillerACD/Art Director: Tommy YongCopywriter: Emma Lorenzi

Client: KitKatAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2024

When enjoying the deliciously spicy KFC Zinger, our bodies heat up and react. For most people, that comes in the form of uncontrollable sweats.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattACD/Copywriter: Matt MillerACD/Art Director: Tommy Yong

Client: KFCAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2024

KFC Hot Wings are properly hot. Like we’re talking mouth-on-fire hot. So to show Canada how the fried chicken flats and drums are igniting taste buds we created an OOH campaign that featured customers breathing fire, literally.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattACD/Copywriter: Matt MillerACD/Art Director: Tommy Yong

Client: KFCAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2024

Onions are notorious tear jerkers. However, with KFC's new onion rings, they'll cause a whole different kind of waterworks.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattACD/Copywriter: Matt MillerACD/Art Director: Tommy YongCopywriter: Emma LorenziArt Director: Sammy Lo

Client: KFCAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2024

Iconic brands like Coffee Mate can do a lot with a little. Sometimes, all it takes is a name. To help people remember ours, we turned to a country that loves to say mate.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattACD/Copywriter: Matt MillerACD/Art Director: Tommy YongCopywriter: Emma LorenziArt Director: Sammy Lo

Client: Coffee MateAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2024

The return of KFC's Extra Crispy chicken also means the return of the many crispy bits that fall to the bottom of the bucket — delicious remnants that nobody wants to leave behind.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattACD/Copywriter: Matt MillerACD/Art Director: Tommy Yong

Client: KFCAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2024

The best way to enjoy KFC is digging in 10 fingers deep. Sure, it’s messy, impolite even. But we make no apologies for it. Well, except maybe to the knives, forks and spoons that have been left behind.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattACD/Copywriters: Matt Miller, Hemal DhanjeeACD/Art Directors: Tommy Yong, Steve Ierullo

Client: KFCAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2023

KFC had the worst reviewed fries in the world. People despised them and wanted them gone. So when KFC finally introduced new seasoned fries, we gave the old fries the send off it deserved.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattCopywriter: Matt MillerArt Director: Tommy Yong

Client: KFCAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2023

KFC's 2 pieces of delicious Original Recipe chicken, made with The Colonel’s famous 11 herbs and spices. For only $2.99? Who wouldn’t love that? Well, we can think of someone who might not be happy.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattCreative Director: Elma KarabegovicCopywriter: Matt MillerArt Director: Tommy Yong

Client: KFCAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2023

Nothing quite beats the feeling of finding money you didn’t know you had. With up to 4% cash back, using the CIBC Dividend card lets you find money in unexpected places.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattCreative Directors: Cindy Navarro, Domenique RasoCopywriter: Matt MillerArt Director: Tommy Yong

Client: CIBCAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2023

George Brown College provides ‘real world’ experience through education. With their wide offerings and proximity to downtown Toronto, there’s a program that's right for every unique individual.

CCO: Dave FedericoCreative Director: Tim KavanderCopywriters: Matt Miller, Shalyse MackayArt Director: Tommy Yong

Client: George Brown CollegeAgency: No Fixed Address Inc.Year: 2022

Greenfield Natural Meat Co. is proudly carbon neutral. To launch the brand in the US, we’re telling Americans they no longer have to choose between meat and nature — they can now have both at the same time.

CCOs: Kelsey Horne, Alexis BronstorphGroup Creative Director: Rena Menkes HulaCreative Director: Trent ThompsonACD/Copywriter: Arjang EsfandiyariArt Director: Tommy Yong

Client: Greenfield Natural Meat Co.Agency: No Fixed Address Inc.Year: 2022

Applewood Bacon. Sausage. Pepperoni. Ham. Smoky Bacon. The Little Caesars 5 Meat Feast just had TOO many meats to talk about. So we shortened them into one really easy-to-say word (pronounced: Bah-cau-sage-er-oni-ha-may-con). To give all Canadians a chance to try this miraculous mouthful for themselves, we created a 31-digit hotline: 1-844-LC5-MEAT+BACAUSAGERONHAMACON giving out free Bacausageronihamacon pizzas to anyone who can dial it correctly.

CCOs: Dave Federico, Josh BuddACDs: James Leake, Dylan WagmanCopywriters: Matt Miller, Megan RadisaArt Director: Tommy Yong

Client: Little CaesarsAgency: No Fixed Address Inc.Year: 2020

We all have a Taco Bell fanatic on our holiday gift-giving list. So for the festive season, we created the Taco Bell Crunchwrapping Paper — a collection of 5 sheets of wrapping paper, one for each of the delicious ingredients in Taco Bell’s Triple Double Crunch Wrap. Naturally it became the #1 bestselling wrapping paper on Amazon.

• Amazon Listing

ACDs: Julia Morra, Trev GourleyCopywriters: Jackson Bryne, Jon DaweArt Directors: Dylan Silvestro, Tommy Yong

Client: Taco BellAgency: Grip LimitedYear: 2018

Homeless chic is a fashion trend that has been appropriating homelessness for years. But homelessness is not a trend, it impacts over 40,000 real Canadian youths today. To raise awareness for this issue, we introduced Streetswear — a collection designed for kids to survive a life of homelessness. A clothing line that shouldn't exist, because neither should youth homelessness.

CCOs: Joel Holtby, Dhaval BhattACD/Copywriter: Hemal DhanjeeACD/Art Director: Steve IerulloCopywriter: Matt MillerArt Director: Tommy Yong

Client: Raising the RoofAgency: Courage Inc.Year: 2022

Every Jeep release is exciting and pushes the envelope in terms of automotive innovation. The Jeep Luggage is no different. To launch the new luggage partnership, we featured the luggage being used in typical rugged Jeep-like environments showing the toughness of our luggage and the ability to take them on any adventure.

CCOs: Dave Federico, Josh BuddCopywriter: Matt MillerArt Director: Tommy Yong

Client: Jeep LuggageAgency: No Fixed Address Inc.Year: 2019