Two new hires at iris Singapore

iris Singapore has appointed Lawrence Stevenson (pictured right) as senior creative and Kim Lim (pictured left) as producer. Stevenson joins from TBWA and Lim joins following several years working at agencies including Y&R and Publicis and within the local film industry. Both join this week and will report in to creative director Tom Ormes. The hires follow the launch of iris Singapore’s latest tongue-in-cheek initiative, its iQuit.com website, which it launched this week as part of a new recruitment drive.

Stevenson will begin work on activity for the agency’s clients Heineken, Johnnie Walker and adidas, while Lim will work across the agency’s key accounts. iris Singapore’s recent campaigns include the Heineken Office Chair Grand Prix, the Audi A8 launch in Singapore, and adidas Refresh.

Stevenson said: “In a world where a lot of agencies embrace integration by printing it in upper-case on their name cards, it’s nice to find one whose mantra really is ‘Media Anything Idea Everything’. iris is doing things that other agencies aren’t even thinking about. And even nicer that they found a desk for me.”

“Having quality talent like Larry and Kimbo on board is an exciting way forward for iris in 2011. Beyond being great at what they do, they’re both very cool people. It’s going to be an interesting year,” said Ormes.