Birmingham-born advertising executive and media columnist,
Trevor Beattie, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from
Birmingham City University next week in recognition of his
outstanding achievements in media and advertising.
Trevor's advertising campaigns have won him renown throughout
the media world. He is best known for a string of high-profile
campaigns, most notably for the Wonderbra "Hello Boys" poster
campaign in the 1990s featuring Eva Herzigova.
Trevor masterminded the controversial French Connection campaign
FCUK and is also famous for his ad campaigns for the Labour Party
in the 2001 and 2005 General Elections, which included the infamous
Hague with Thatcher's Hair billboard in 2001.
He won awards for his work as Creative Director and Chairman at
top ad agency TBWA/London, where his clients included PlayStation
and Playtex.
In 2005 Trevor set up the advertising and PR agency, Beattie
McGuinness Bungay, which achieved immediate success, winning 16 of
its first 20 new business pitches. Now the agency lists Carling,
Ikea, McCain and Selfridges among its clients.
Trevor moved into filmmaking in 2008, and won a much coveted
Bafta award for the film "Moon", directed by David Bowie's son,
Duncan Jones.
Trevor is now about to take his media skills to a whole new
level; he will devise the marketing campaign for Richard Branson's
Virgin Galactic Space Tourism Programme. Next year, he is set
to become the advertising world's first-ever fare-paying Space
Traveller.
He will receive the award at 3.45pm on Tuesday 8 February at the
Awards Congregation ceremony which will celebrate the work and
achievements of students graduating from the Birmingham Institute
of Art and Design.