SpeakerBrian met Rob Rightford and Roger Makin in Cape Town in 1972, and in 1976 they formed the agency Rightford Searle-Tripp and Makin, which would eventually become Ogilvy & Mather Rightford Searle-Tripp & Makin. In 1994 he became a founding member of the Red & Yellow School of Logic and Magic, which would eventually win him Financial Mail's Advertising Achiever Award in 1996 for his longstanding contribution to advertising.