Mick Thorp is Coach and Creative Director at Friend_Thorp and has over thirty five years of creative leadership experience across brand identity creation and implementation, shareholder communications and integrated campaigns. As a creative director and mentor, he has helped to coach, nurture and develop outstanding teams of award winning, business creatives and has provided opportunities for account managers, typesetters and finished artists whom have continued on to excel in their respective disciplines. Mick has worked on some of the major design projects commissioned within Australia in the last 20 years and has had work published nationally and internationally and has been awarded in recognition for his efforts in branding, typography and print design.