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senior copywriter ola lax

education
new york university, intensive film production 1999
berghs school of communication, copywriting 1994
stockholm university, the institution of nordic language 1992
rudbecksskolan sollentuna, vehicle technique

track
freelance copywriter 2005 -
der kern/tbwa/phs (founding partner) 2003
hall & cederquist/young & rubicam 2002
paradiset/ddb needham 1999
manne & co/a-com 1995
alm & co/saatchi & saatchi 1994

selected clients
diesel, barilla, björn borg fashion, beckers paint, channel 4, citymail, clear channel, cloetta, east air, gevalia coffee, jaguar, kodak, marabou chocolate, mercedes, milda/flora, minolta, nokia, tele2 telecom, telia, seb bank, spendrups beer, swedish advertising society, the public change of address service, the swedish real estate broker, save the children, royal mail, a non smoking generation, webaid and more…




 

references
joakim jonasson, founder and former creative director paradiset ddb
björn ståhl, creative director ogilvy sweden
manne schagerström, headmaster of berghs school of communication

awards and nominations in
clio, epica, eurobest, new york film festival, dm-nyckeln, guldägget,
guldbrevet, månadens kampanj, silversvanen, 100 watt

lecturer and teacher at
berghs school of communication
forsbergs school of design
beckmans school of design
various courses such as: basic copywriting, how to write scripts, how to develop strong visual ideas for outdoor media, the connection between comic strips and long lasting conceptual ideas, the worst five jobs i've ever done – choose one and make it better, and more…

other
member of board in boule1 and the wisy pingwin
a previous career as a traveling salesman
proud owner of the tugboat björnen one of the last steamships built in europe