London-based brand and design expert Coley Porter Bell has hired a multi-award winning designer and former Blackburn’s creative director Belinda Duggan as Design Director.

Photo: Belinda Duggan, newly appointed Design Director at CPB

Her brief is to be creative lead on the agency’s Unilever brands, particularly Hellmann’s and Comfort. She will also share creative leadership of the agency’s Pernod Ricard business with two other Design Directors Stuart Humm and Richard Clayton.

Duggan joins Coley Porter Bell after 3  months spent freelancing in the agency on its Morrisons business. Before that she was creative director at Blackburn’s for 11 years where she amassed considerable drinks experience working on Moet and Chandon, Cockburn’s, Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Russian Standard Vodka, Chilano and Origin Wines and several other alcohol brands.

Stephen Bell, Creative Director of Coley Porter Bell says: “We are delighted to have someone of such pedigree and caliber joining the team. I have no doubt that she will make an incredibly valuable contribution to our work.”