"CREATIVE"
// creative ideator
// art director
// community builder
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SKILLS
Digital
MacOS
Windows PC
Adobe Creative Suite
Photoshop
InDesign
Illustrator
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Audition
Google Workspace
Microsoft Office 365
Keynote
Autodesk Maya
SketchUp
Paint Tool SAI
Flipbook
Dragonframe
Lens Studio
basic HTML, CSS and JS
Sims4
Analog
art direction
graphic design
branding
film photography
camera work
editing
podcast editing
event management
bid writing
zine making
textile work
bread baking
mushroom cultivation
Other
English
Cantonese
Full Driving License
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ABOUT
Jeng is a London-based creative art director/ graphic designer/ community builder/ cultural producer/ workshop facilitator/ maker/ ideas person/ problem solver/ listener/ learner/ bread baker/ mushroom grower/ title hoarder/ they/ them/ taurus.
They are also:
- advertising creative art director, 1/2 of creative team AuPeake.
- co-founder and creative director of Camp Trans CIC festival.
- resident of A House for Artists, Barking.
- organiser of Trans Sauna.
- team member of London Trans+ Pride.
- team member of Wanderers of Colour.
- creator of SPAWN, creative & gourmet mushroom explorations.
- organiser, admin and workshop facilitator with SIBLING skate collective.
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EXPERIENCE
Amazon XCM EU
Creative Art Director
Jan 2021 – Present
One half of creative duo AuPeake.
Freelance
Feb 2019 – Feb 2021
Trustonic, Wellcome Collection, Create Jobs, A New Direction, Good Growth Hub, On Road Research, Depop, We Are Wire, John Doe, Old Pulteney, BBC Radio London, Alpha Nova Capital, misery party, failsafe zine, SOAK zine, Dalston Superstore Unite, Close Quarters, Ketchurah's Kitchen, cuties Berlin, London Trans+ Pride, Wanderers of Colour, Fore Street For All CIC,
Wieden+Kennedy London
Creative Placement
Feb 2018 – Feb 2019
Nike, Converse, Pokémon GO, Formula 1, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, Ingress, Bud Light, Louis Vuitton, Dr. Martens
Wieden+Kennedy London
Kennedy
Sep 2017 – Feb 2018
One of seven selected to be a part of Wieden+Kennedy's incubator programme.
BD Network
Creative Intern
May 2017 – Jun 2017
Corona, Coca Cola, Lurpak
Residencies
2023 Jun // Glastonbury Rhizosphere | Greenpeace, Bailes+Lights
2023 Jan – Mar // Close Quarters | Edmonton Green
2022 Aug – Sep // Re-Wild Ilford | Spark Ilford
2022 May – Present // A House for Artists | Create London, Barking Council
PRESS
2023 // "Careers In The Making: Jeng Au" | Cannes Lions
2023 // "How Amazon art director Jeng Au “fell into” advertising" | Creative Lives In Progress
2022 // "Seeing the value: How apprenticeships are being used to unearth fresh talent" | Marketing Week
2021 // "Introducing five of Future Academy’s bright young things" | The Face
EDUCATION
University of Lincoln | BA (Hons) Animation
The Latymer School
Programmes
2024 Feb - Jun // Bright Sparks (Mentor) | Creative Mentor Network, Amazon
2023 Jun // Cannes For All | DigiLearning, Cannes LIONs 2023
2023 Apr - Jul // Bright Sparks (Mentor) | Creative Mentor Network, Amazon
2023 Jan - Dec // Creative Mentor Network Youth Board | Creative Mentor Network
2022 Jun – Dec // In Future List | Livity
2022 Jan // Lion Growers Grant | Land In Our Names
2021 Jul // Creative Storytellers Mentorship | The Elephant Room, Clarks
2021 Apr – Jul // Future Academy | The Face, Moncler, A New Direction
2021 Mar – Apr // The Pattern | Play Nice, Culture Mile, Foundation for Future London
2020 Sep – 2021 Jan // Outvertising Mentoring programme | Outvertising
2020 Oct – Dec // Events Masters | The Zoo XYZ, Make Shift Create
2020 Apr – Jul // Open House (Mentee) | Creative Mentor Network, Soho House
2020 Feb // Ecologies of Art & Making | Slade School of Fine Art
2019 Oct // #NOTASCHOOL | Samsung UK, B+A, Iris
2019 Sep – Dec // Creativity Works | Media Trust
2019 Jun // Fastlaners | UpRising
2018 Jun – Present // Interchange | Create London
2018 Mar – Jun // Digital Pipeline LDN | D&AD, General Assembly, Create Jobs
2017 May – Jun // Creativity Works: Advertising | A New Direction, Create Jobs
AWARDS
2017 // Best Short Animated Film | Festival Curtas Metragens
Awarded to Team WildeBeast for their short film “Becoming”.
2016 // Best Animated Film | The University of Lincoln
Awarded to Team WildeBeast for their short film “Becoming”.