Andy Blood

Industry Fellow, Media Design School

Andy Blood

Andy is a fearless creator, serial innovator, Amazon US Top 100 author, triple Cannes Grand Prix winner and former World’s Most Highly Awarded Creative Director. While at Meta, he was Executive Producer of the award-winning documentary Losing Lena, which challenged gender bias in algorithms and technology, and which is now held in the Australian film archive. Losing Lena, the campaign, was a finalist in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas (2021), and won the Webby for Diversity (2021).


He is an Industry Fellow at Media Design School and a sought-after speaker on the subject of Creativity in the era of AI. In 2025, he made not one, but two appearances at SXSW Sydney; the first, when he convened, hosted and led a panel titled: ‘There is no algorithm for Creativity’, and second, as a special guest speaker on a panel entitled ‘Creativity that can’t be coded: Standing out in an AI crowd’.

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