The Essential List: Pablo Marques
Lion, D&AD, Clio and One Show award-winning creative, Pablo Marques was appointed as Executive Creative Director at POSSIBLE鈥檚 London office in 2016. His stable of work includes groundbreaking and award-winning ideas for Honda, Google, Nike, Johnnie Walker and Beats by Dre.
But when he鈥檚 not performing his ECD duties at POSSIBLE, you鈥檒l probably find him riding his motorbike, rocking out to Led Zeppelin or clicking his fingers at the Green Note blues bar in London. Get to know Pablo a little more in his Essential List below.
Travel
o Place of birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
o Hometown: London, UK
o Staycation: Rio de Janeiro. Living in that place is like being on holiday every weekend.
o Vacation: Anywhere with mountains and roads I can reach with my motorcycle. Every summer I take a week of holiday before Cannes and head down to the south of France on my motorcycle, by myself, through a very unintuitive path that takes me through about 10 countries all the way down to Slovenia before I make it to Cannes. It鈥檚 usually the highlight of the year for me. The focus you need to keep while on the motorcycle for 12 hours a day for nine days straight really washes away anything else from your mind. It鈥檚 the best forced meditation.
o Place of work: Hatton Garden, and no I don鈥檛 sell diamonds, unfortunately.
o Place of workout: What?
o Mode of transport: Motorcycles. I鈥檇 say 鈥榤otorcycles, hands down鈥 but that would be irresponsible!
o Miscellaneous Travel Essential: Tyre repair kit
Culture
o Artist: There are too many to list. But the contemporary one that left the longest impression on me was . His stuff is great to look at, but walking through it is a special experience. His sculpture work really challenges your sense of proportion, it is quite unsettling.
o Musician: Led Zeppelin. Always and forever. Best rock band to ever grace this earth. Jimmy Page is a music god
o Commercials director: Jonathan Glazer
o Film director: Tarantino. Always. Even if just for the soundtracks
o Photographer: Diane Arbus for her pioneering celebration of the fringe and the odd.
o Film: Oh, there are so many for so many reasons. But, if I have to pick one, damn I love Pulp Fiction. The soundtrack, the lines, the all-out madness of it all
o Series: Sheeeeiiiit, That鈥檚 easy. The Wire. 鈥淚t鈥檚 got dots. Deputy loves dots.鈥
o Commercial: Guinness鈥 The Surfer by AMV BBDO. Brilliance. The opening scene alone with the close up of the surfer鈥檚 face
o Music Video: Easy. Johnny Cash鈥檚 cover of Trent Reznor鈥檚 Hurt. Shot by Mark Romanek. It manages to reduce me to tears in its short four minutes. It is so sad, so real and so visceral. It鈥檚 a documentation of a full life of a man that created so much and that carries so much regret with him. June Cash appears in it. There is so much symbolism throughout the whole thing. She died a short few months after it and he died a few months after her and then a few years after that, the house it was shot in (Cash鈥檚 house and museum) burned down to the ground
o Book: The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy, a 鈥榯rilogy鈥 of five books. The most entertaining thing I鈥檝e ever read
o Newspaper (off or online): Guardian and NYT
o Magazine: I don鈥檛 remember the last time I bought a magazine or went to a magazine website. Other than clicking on random internet links鈥
o Podcast: Like music too much. No time for podcasts!
Food and Drink
o Restaurant: Engawa
o Cheap bite: Something behind the office on Leather Lane
o Working lunch: Engawa
o Dish: Salmon and mashed potatoes (simple things done right)
o Snack: Coffee!
o Guilty Pleasure: Mango Sorbet
o Bar: The Green Note (Blues!)
o Tipple: Sake of the junmai daiginjo variety! Sweet, light and so pure hangovers are almost impossible
o Soft Tipple: Huh?
o Miscellaneous food: K枚ttbullar
o Miscellaneous Beverage: Coffee with unsalted butter in it
Kit
o Phone: iPhone
o Computer: Macbook
o TV: Macbook
o Headphones: Bose
o Camera: Leica M or Q.
o Sound system: Sonos.
o Pen / pencil: I don鈥檛 know what these are!
o Where you document an idea: Text Edit. I have about a hundred open and unsaved textedit files on my computer at all times
o Watch: iPhone
o App: Instagram
o Website: Guardian
o Blog: . Best blog on the Internet. THE WHOLE OF THE INTERNET!
o Work program: Sketch
o Digital work tool: Phone
o Analogue work tool: Rocking chair
o Grooming: Rarely!
o Miscellaneous Kit Essential: Wide brim hat!
