Six Things You Didn’t Know About Johannes Leonardo’s Jan Jacobs


Johannes Leonardo co-founder Jan Jacobs launched his agency, along with creative partner Leo Premutico, back in 2007. In just a few years they proved the New York shop’s creative muscle by producing some of the best, freshest work for companies like WNYC and Daffy’s.

Since then, Johannes Leonardo has gone on to do boundary-breaking work for Google, such as Project Re:brief, which garnered Mr. Jacobs plenty of Cannes Gold Lions, including the first-ever Mobile Grand Prix — and the distinct honor of being one of Google’s longest-serving agency partners. But Mr. Jacobs has plenty of other surprising talents up his sleeve — as we find out in this week’s installment of “Six Things.”

1. He learned to draw by copying the spaceships from the original “Battlestar Galactica” TV series in the early 1980s. After each episode he’d rush off and recreate the battle scenes. To this day he can draw inanimate objects, but he says he’s “hopeless” at drawing people.

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