Close-Up: Profile - Tollett and Stamp: a creative combo to bet on?(Ben Tollett)(Emer Stamp)(Adam & Eve)

The award-winning team are certainly rising stars, but what are the challenges they'll face at Adam & Eve, Noel Bussey asks.

The youthful agency Adam & Eve's first major hiring since its January start-up is the creative team of Ben Tollett and Emer Stamp. Tollett affects modesty when Campaign calls: 'Maybe your headline should read 'Who the fuck are Ben and Emer?'.'

Despite a number of awards and an impressive history, the pair realise that they are only just starting to forge the sort of career that may see them become regulars in the pages of Campaign, and know that a wider audience may not recognise their names just yet.

It doesn't stop them being determined, though, and they are aware that the fledgling agency has offered them not only the chance to grow an already impressive business, but also to cement their own reputations as well.

'We definitely see it as an opportunity to build our careers as well as a creative department,' 32-year-old Stamp says. 'The first time we met James (Murphy, one of Adam & Eve's three founding partners), he asked 'are you the team from BBH?', which says a lot, but hopefully we'll make a bit more of an impression now.'

The pair, who have been cutting their teeth at DDB, and had previously worked at Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy and Leagas Delaney, have an impressive portfolio of work, with a number of awards, including Campaign and Cannes golds for Harvey Nichols and the Travelocity campaign featuring Alan Whicker. They have many fans in the industry.

Both Paul Briginshaw, a founder at MCBD, and Justin Tindall, a creative partner at The Red Brick Road, who worked with them at DDB, cannot say enough nice things about them.