What it says on my business card:
Jane Murray
Associate Creative Director
Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto
What my old business cards used to say:
Group Creative Director, Taxi Toronto; Copywriter, MacLaren McCann Toronto
People that think I'm nifty and gave me nice things to prove it:
The One Show, New York Art Directors Show, New York Festivals, London International Advertising Awards, The Bessies, The Obies, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada, Communication Arts, Marketing Awards, Applied Arts, International Mobius Awards, Strategy Magazine Top Spots, Extra Awards, York Mills Public School ‘Fun Fair’ Best Costume Contest, 1979
Interests outside of advertising:
Mid Century Modern Architecture, Googie, Weird Roadside Attractions, Voracious Reading, Photography, Japan, Road Trips, Memphis Design, Theme Parks, Exotica Music, Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking, Futuristic Design, Sewing, Moose Spotting, Drawing, Urban Archaeology, Furniture Design, The Futuro House, Thrift Scores, Ghost Towns, Machine Age Modern, Eating Cheese, Drinking Wine, Collecting old LP’s, Tiki Mugs, 60’s Fashion Designers, Forgotten Theme Restaurants, Costume Jewellery, Retro Interior Design, Vintage Clothing, Art Deco, Estate Sale-ing, Weird Documentaries, Travelling To Faraway Lands, Doing Things Once Just To Say You Did (eg. Eating Alligator, Playing Nude Scrabble, Shooting a Machine Gun)
Recipe for success:
Don’t let the turkeys get you down.