Jonathan Pease (creative director)

Jonathan Pease is a creative director and entrepreneur based in Australia known for his role as style director on Australia's Next Top Model. Pease is currently managing partner and executive IDeaS director at Tongue.

Acting and directing work

Pease was Style Director on the Fox8 show, Australia's Next Top Model for several seasons leaving in 2009 to start a company, Tongue. Pease hosted the Fox8 show, Confidential. Other projects include the hosting role on Fashion Week Unwrapped, and a featured role on the reality TV show pilot The Agency. In 2006, Pease pitched a 13-episode show to Foxtel Australia called The Deep End, starring Ian Thorpe.

In 2008, Pease collaborated with Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash to create a video game based on fashion and styling.

Creative design

Pease spent 18 years working in advertising and marketing, including seven years in New York with BBDO Worldwide. Clients have included M&M Mars and Pepsi in the USA, Financial Times in the UK, and Channel Nine in Australia. Previously, Pease served as Executive Ideas Director at [...] Communications where he worked on clients including Unilever, BMW, Coke, Bigpond, Xbox, and Seek. [...] won Australian agency of the year in 2007.

Pease is currently managing partner and executive ideas director of Tongue, working with clients including Kim Kardashian and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Pease serves on the Vanguard Board for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Pease is often a guest speaker at events such as the Australian National Leadership Camp in Sydney, the Leading Edge Hinterland Creative Conference in Sydney, and The Internet Show in Melbourne.

Pease is creator of the fashion label Tight Knickers.

Charity work

Pease works with several youth-focused charities including Australia's only maximum security prison for women, Juniperina Juvenile Justice Centre. In Australia, Pease also works with the Make A Wish Foundation and the Sir David Martin Foundation, which saw him abseil down a city building.

Education and teaching

Pease has a Master of Business from Sydney University in 2010. and lectures AbOUT idea generation at AdSchool in Sydney.