Dean & Jackson

Mr Dean

Art Director

The son of celebrated coalminer, Herbert ‘The Spade’ Dean, Mr Dean grew up in the glaring spotlight of Stoke-on-Trent high society.

At age 16 he was plucked from a selection of hundreds to become the poster boy for Brain’s Faggots, but the resulting bullying at school forced him to leave Stoke and travel to London to seek his fortune.

Needing lodgings and work in the big smoke, Mr Dean answered an advertisement in ‘Gentleman’s Quarterly’ for a live in inventors assistant. Being an able sort, he applied for the job and got it. And his new employer? None other than Mr Jackson.

Mr Jackson

Copywriter

Born at the height of the industrial revolution, Mr Jackson grew up along side Isambard Kingdom Brunel in leafy Hampshire.

The two remained good friends until their early 20s when Mr Jackson claims he lost the designs of the Clifton Suspension Bridge to Brunel in a game of paper, scissors, stone.

This catastrophic event forced Mr Jackson to abandon his career as an engineer and move to London, where five years later he invented the ‘Spiders Web’, a primitive version of what is now known as the internet. It was during this period that he met Mr Dean, and the rest as they say, is history.