Our Glass Tower team offers a world of experience. We've worked across a range of continents. We've come from different working backgrounds. We've specialised in diverse sectors. And all that expertise comes together in a unique mash of skills and services that's quite unlike what's being offered by anyone else.
Put public relations, advertising, design, media skills, internal comms, production, editorial content generation and new media in a blender and hit the pulse button. That's what's happening in the communications industry right now.
We're not entirely sure what to call what we're doing, or how it operates. But it looks good to us (and our clients). But to deliver the results you need a wide range of resources. That's where our team comes into it; we've got the core people; those who work for us full time; then we've got our contractors and associates; and those people we choose to work with because of their specialist skills or abilities (That's often a line used by companies who can't afford permanent staff, it's not the case with us. We deliberately chose a contractor model a couple of years ago because some of the people we want to work with won't work full time and don't want to work on every project that comes along. It's like putting together one of those 'mission impossible' teams). We're fortunate in having decades of experience in all our different specialties which means we've got one helluva contact list. And what's more, the people we want to work with generally really like working with us.
Douglas has over thirty years experience in the advertising and design industries in roles from designer to writer to creative director. He came in at #36 in Campaign Brief’s 2006/7 Hot 200 Australasian Creative Directors list, and has worked for some of the leading names in advertising, including Ted Bates, Saatchi and Saatchi, McCann Erickson and DDB Needham. His most recent role was 12 years as Creative Director at Strategy Design and Advertising.
Douglas has won a number of key industry awards, including:
- Silver & Bronze Clio
- A.W.A.R.D Silver Pencil (Australia)
- New York Type Directors' Club
- ADC (Art Directors Club of America) awards
- Axis awards
- The One Show
- M.A.P.D.A (Museums of Australia)
- S.I.A.A.
- NZ Best Design Awards
She founded Glass Tower in that year, and has since provided the PR power behind some of the most visible and successful public relations campaigns the South Island has seen.
Susi provides advice and media training to some of the city’s most high profile business people, as well as media management services to key local companies and organisations.
Find out more about our individual and combined experience. It's not services you're after, it's the right people... 
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