// GBH stands for the surname initials of the founder members Gregory, Bonner and Hales. The presentation was made by down to earth Jason Gregory and Mark Bonner, two truly passionate individuals who after 7 years of debating about an agency set up, finally dragged themselves away from their existing and successful careers at other companies to form GBH. // GBH, currently based in the pristine Chiswick Station House in London, formed 12 years ago and after the usual financial spluttering beginning with any start up company, they soon found themselves achieving what they had always set out to do - to be working on the type of creative briefs every designer aims for but few rarely achieve.

WHO AreGBH?

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D&AD – home of the talented and skilled, the imaginative and the curious, the restless and the bloody-minded. Commercially savvy, sometimes romantic, often cynical and occasionally rather weird. A source of information and ideas: of professional development, support and inspiration, interesting people to talk and nice things to look at. All creative life is here.

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