Erik Norin | MMA Global

Erik Norin

Erik Norin
Creative Director
Wieden & Kennedy

Erik is a Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy, New York where he has worked with Heineken, Nike Canada, Delta Airlines and Southern Comfort. Before joining Wieden+Kennedy Erik worked at R/GA, New York as a Creative Director. At R/GA Erik worked with clients such as MasterCard, McCormick, Microsoft and Impulse.

Erik started his career in Sweden where he worked at Swedish agency phenomenon Farfar for eight years. Farfar was one of the world’s most successful digital agencies and the spearhead of the Swedish Digital Wonder - ranked by The Gunn Report among the top 5 for the last five years of its existence peaking at #1 in 2007. While at Farfar he was also in charge of the Farfar Academy - an education set up with renouned
ad school Berghs in Stockholm, Sweden with the purpose to educate young (digital) creatives and strategists.

Over the years Erik have created numerous global campaigns and worked with brands like Absolut Vodka, Adidas, Bjorn Borg, N-Gage, Nokia, Red Bull, MasterCard, Nike, Heineken, Delta and Southern Comfort.
The Photon Shower, Departure Roulette, The World’s Biggest Sign-Post, Great Pockets, Crack The US Open, Heineken Light with Neil Patrick Harris and two recent Delta spots called “Take Off” and “Tell The World”.

His work spans across digital, social, to stunts, to big TV commercials to the weird things that are tricky to define. Like showers that cure jetlag for instance.

Erik has been a frequent member of national and international jurys and he’s held workshops in Cannes and at other industry events. In 2010 Erik was shortlisted as one of Sweden’s most influential digital creative and in March of 2011 Erik was listed as the 9th best Creative Director in the world by W&V Magazine. Erik
has won almost every major advertising award over the last 10+ years and his work has been talked about by Jimmy Kimmel, Martha Stewart, CNN, Mashable, Huffington Post, his mom, FOX, New York Times, Time Magazine, Zagat, CNBC, ABC and others. But not by his two small kids. They don’t care.