Tomás O’Gorman: A Few Of My Favourite Things

A digital advertising lifer with a passport full of agency stamps, Tomás O’Gorman has spent the past 15 years bouncing between Buenos Aires and Hamburg.

Now Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy Barcelona, he has worked across shops including INGO, DAVID, Don, McCann and Leo Burnett, with brands ranging from Coca-Cola and Burger King to IKEA, Audi, Netflix and Lidl.

Here, O’Gorman shares a few favourite things that keep him grounded, curious and ready to go again.

The Fuel

Mate tea, cup, and straw.

My brain’s survival kit, and a tiny embassy of home culture on my desk.

The tea lives inside a Maradona container because, before being Argentinian, I’m Maradonean, and nothing is more inspiring than Diego.

The Dog (Walter)

My dog, proudly lounging on his accidentally Ogilvy-branded blanket.

He still doesn’t understand why the people around him insist on staring at laptops and arguing about ideas instead of chasing balls or sniffing butts.

But he loves them, and they love him back.

Works for him.

The Unsigned Work Contract

How much can change in someone’s life just by scribbling your name on one piece of paper and not another?

Manifesting intentions, tangled paths, and the way destiny quietly bends or suddenly turns.

Life itself.

I’m not sure why (maybe as a witness to a story that never happened), but I’ve kept this contract at the agency since day one.

And now that DDB doesn’t even exist anymore, I treasure it even more.

The Wisdom Of Mad Men

A quote I keep close: simple truth and eternal reminder.

Nobody cares about what we do… unless we make something interesting enough for them to care.

That’s the goal.

Always.

The Overqualified Pen

The Space Pen: engineered in the 60s to write in space, in zero gravity.

Do I usually use a half-chewed Bic instead?

Of course.

But this one is cooler, and you never know when you’ll get pulled into a quick alignment meeting at the International Space Station.

Always be ready.