3DM Blog

We’re excited to announce that Micah Walker has joined The Monkeys.

Formerly a Creative Partner at Fallon London, he more recently made the move to Mojo Sydney where he had a highly successful four-year stint as Executive Creative Director.

The agency bagged numerous accolades under his creative guidance including AWARD agency of the year and produced some of Australia’s most recognised and awarded work for Lion Nathan beer brands, James Boag’s and Hahn SuperDry and Coca Cola’s Burn. “Pure Waters’ for Boags was named the world’s 4th most awarded spot of 2010 in the Gunn report, and was awarded Australia’s first and only Grand Clio in film.

The future looks bright.

Self-confessed prickly character, and talented copywriter, Benn Sutton, has released a children’s book called Hedgehug: A Sharp Lesson in Love. It’s the tale of Hedgehug, a lonely hedgehog, searching for someone to accept his heart on Valentines Day. Yep, it’s based on a true story and is as cute as it sounds. Buy one.

This is Benn’s first book, the second Hedgehug book will be out next year.

Resident monkey, Justin Drape has been named the new Caxtons chairman. He takes over from Rob Belgiovane, who is stepping down from the role after four successful years.

Resident Monkey, Jay Gelardi has has come up with a way to make swearing charitable – Twitter Swearbox.
How does it work? Log on to CharitySwearbox.com and the clever little app recognises all of your recently tweeted swear words and suggests a reasonable donation. If you’ve been good and not sworn at all, you can let rip with a swear-filled tweet right there in the app and select from a list of charities and donate via Paypal. Those who choose to connect their Twitter account will receive a monthly reminder with a tally of all their bad words, so the benevolence continues. Fucking marvellous.

Resident Monkey artists Jed de Pyper and Terry Chisholm will be exhibiting their latest work at Showcase Gallery’s “Launch Exhibition”. So hop along to check it out, sample some canapés and show the talented lads some love.

JH by Terry Chisholm

Blackest Moon by Jed de Pyper

Today we’re thrilled to announce Tontine have joined us as a client. They’re great guys and have proven they’re into great work so we’re stoked.

We recently opened additional office space with an exhibition of high art, featuring photography by all Three Drunk Monkey staff. Eschewing the current ‘digital photography’ fad, each team of two were given film-loaded disposable cameras to create imagery on the theme of ‘Redfern’. Well known Art Dealer Damien Minton of Damien Minton gallery judged the work and shared his insights on the art world and the joys of the suburb we’ve come to love (and photograph). With music by Chris Kelaart and dips by Kerrie, the whole affair was a triumph for the enterprising folk on Monkey Social.

Winning Print

Photographers: Tom Harrison & Jade Wannell

People’s Choice

Photographers: Chris Halaska & Sonia Borg