A graduate of the Film & Television and Media Copywriting programs at Toronto's Humber College, and a multi-award-winning copywriter, Brad Dykema has worked at advertising agencies across the country and beyond, settling in Halifax with his wife Sarah in 2001.
Brad's career has taken him on a journey from his native Toronto's Communique Group to Vancouver's high-profile PJDDB, to Amsterdam, where he joined the ground-breaking StrawberryFrog, and then back to Halifax. Over the past 6 years, Brad's work has consistently been recognized for its ability to get clients noticed and achieve their objectives. During that time he has established himself as the region's most award-winning copywriter collecting dozens of Ice Awards for work done at trampoline, Extreme and Colour.
The extensive list of clients Brad has worked on includes notables such as Nova Scotia Tourism, New Brunswick Government, Microsoft, Sun-Rype, Alexander Keith's, McDonald's, Telus, Credit Suisse, Atlantic Lottery, EastLink, Workers' Compensation Board, and Aliant. His work has been recognized with an impressive list of awards from Marketing, Bessies, New York Festivals, ICE Awards, Extra Awards, Advertising and Design, London International Advertising Awards, Archive Magazine, and many more.
We're very happy to welcome Brad back to the Trampoline family.
Gordon Mackenzie, in his book “orbiting the giant hairball”, pointed out that “Orville Wright did not have a pilots license.” Well, of course he didn’t, they didn’t yet exist - nor would they had he not had a unique vision and conviction. It’s this very same thinking that Mike consistently brings to his creative; digging past the conventional solution and into the realm of the unexpected. During his 13 years working in the industry, Mike has created campaigns for many regional, national and international clients including: SABIAN Cymbals, Latin Percussion Inc., Aliant Inc., The Olivier Soapery, The University of New Brunswick – Fredericton and Saint John, and Acadia University.
After earning her Applied Arts Diploma from the Illustration Program at Sheridan College in Toronto, Jodie plied her trade at a number of design studios and agencies in Toronto. Another one who saw the light and moved to Nova Scotia, Jodie brought experience with Sony, PEI Tourism, Ontario Ministry of Health, Consumers Gas and Prime Restaurants to our firm when she joined in 1994. Equally adept with pen and ink or point and click, her talent is evident. Jodie unwinds by playing darts competitively and her aim, like her work, is always on the mark.
David is an amazing Interface Designer. Exactly what does that mean? Killer web sites. Concept. Design. Development. The works. He's been at it 10 years, so that's like 100 years in high-tech time. A graduate of Environmental Design Studies from Technical University of Nova Scotia, his experience ranges from highly creative projects for music, theater and sports clients, including The Boston Celtics and Mirvish Productions, to lead roles on enterprise level web apps for clients such as AMD, DaimlerChrysler and The Atlantic Lottery Corporation. When David isn't busy designing interfaces and slinging HTML code, he's pursuing his passion for music. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Dalhousie University and additional performance studies from the University of Toronto and Royal Conservatory of Music. We’re very happy to welcome David to our team. Oh, we forgot. He also built his very own mountain banjo.