Vikram Gaikwad

Vikram Gaikwad

Partner and Executive Creative Director - Creativeland Asia

In the last 23 years, Lintas, Enterprise, Leo Burnett and Grey Worldwide, all benefited from his acute eye for detail, his lucid sense of art and his ability to execute an idea in its finest form. At Leo Burnett, he was part of the team that made the Mumbai office, the Global Agency of the Year, 2003. In his time at Grey, the agency went all the way from the 27th spot to the 2nd in India. In 2007, he joined his partner Raj Kurup when he founded Creativeland Asia. Creativeland is already one of the top independent agencies in the world, winning the Independent Agency of the Year and a Grand Prix at Spike Asia in 2011 and two more at FAB Awards, 2012.

Vikram has consistently won at Cannes every year. The One Show, D&AD, Clio, Adfest Asia, Spikes Asia and the Abby are some of the other shows that Vikram has won at. He has also been on the jury of numerous international awards, including Cannes, and local award shows.

Vikram was involved in many designs and type design projects through IDC, IIT and has designed fonts for Microsoft (OTF for Windows XP) in Tamil and Malayalam. He was ranked among the Emerging Young Indians in a survey by The Week magazine.