Ajmal Shaikh
- Art Department
- Animation Department
- Additional Crew
Born in Nanded, trained in commercial arts, grew up in advertising & filmmaking.
Graduated in 2002 from Sir JJ Institute of Applied Arts winning Gold Medal from Academy of Fine Arts. Young CAG from Communication Art Guild, Strategic Communication Award from Leo Burnett; and award for the Best Illustrated Campaign.
Devoted the next two decades to advertising, balancing creative ideation talent and crafting skills with the need to generate significant results for some of India's biggest brands.
Worked as Art Director, first, and then a senior creative resource at various top-10 advertising agencies.
Served as National Art Head at BBH (Mumbai) and Famous Innovations (Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi). Before that, worked at Leo Burnett, DDB, Ogilvy, FP7 McCann (UAE), and several other reputed agencies.
Ajmal's creative work has won hundreds of national and international awards - including at Cannes Lions, London International Awards, One Show, Asia-Pacific Adfest, Kyoorius D&AD, Mirchi Kaan Radio Awards and Abby.
Brands worked on include Volkswagen, Uber, Vaseline, Raymond, Van Heusen and hundreds of others.
Though his main love remains advertising filmmaking, Ajmal has made time to also work on cinema publicity design and direct print shoots. He has recently designed the campaign for feature film Aapdi Thaapdi (2022).
As filmmaker, Ajmal has recently directed a short film for Jeep Meridian Modes Go Anywhere Do Anything (2022).
He has also been producer-director-and-animator for the corporate film of brand Brio The Joy of Technology (2022).
In the past, Ajmal has worked as creative director, writer and lyricist for the commercial film Pehla Roza (2021) and remained assistant art director for the Bollywood blockbuster Devdas (2002). He has had the opportunity to network at BBH's Hollywood Huddle (a yearly creative conclave in Los Angeles).
After creating multimedia campaigns, building brands, setting up offices and training people, Ajmal now wishes to make a difference as a Director for the next decade of revolution in the Advertising & Media industry.
Director Showreel vimeo.com/ajmalshaikhdirects
Creative Director Showreel
Graduated in 2002 from Sir JJ Institute of Applied Arts winning Gold Medal from Academy of Fine Arts. Young CAG from Communication Art Guild, Strategic Communication Award from Leo Burnett; and award for the Best Illustrated Campaign.
Devoted the next two decades to advertising, balancing creative ideation talent and crafting skills with the need to generate significant results for some of India's biggest brands.
Worked as Art Director, first, and then a senior creative resource at various top-10 advertising agencies.
Served as National Art Head at BBH (Mumbai) and Famous Innovations (Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi). Before that, worked at Leo Burnett, DDB, Ogilvy, FP7 McCann (UAE), and several other reputed agencies.
Ajmal's creative work has won hundreds of national and international awards - including at Cannes Lions, London International Awards, One Show, Asia-Pacific Adfest, Kyoorius D&AD, Mirchi Kaan Radio Awards and Abby.
Brands worked on include Volkswagen, Uber, Vaseline, Raymond, Van Heusen and hundreds of others.
Though his main love remains advertising filmmaking, Ajmal has made time to also work on cinema publicity design and direct print shoots. He has recently designed the campaign for feature film Aapdi Thaapdi (2022).
As filmmaker, Ajmal has recently directed a short film for Jeep Meridian Modes Go Anywhere Do Anything (2022).
He has also been producer-director-and-animator for the corporate film of brand Brio The Joy of Technology (2022).
In the past, Ajmal has worked as creative director, writer and lyricist for the commercial film Pehla Roza (2021) and remained assistant art director for the Bollywood blockbuster Devdas (2002). He has had the opportunity to network at BBH's Hollywood Huddle (a yearly creative conclave in Los Angeles).
After creating multimedia campaigns, building brands, setting up offices and training people, Ajmal now wishes to make a difference as a Director for the next decade of revolution in the Advertising & Media industry.
Director Showreel vimeo.com/ajmalshaikhdirects
Creative Director Showreel