Lasse and Suchi are recent grads of Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design in London and are currently working in NYC. They think of themselves as writer/art directors, and so (for the first time evah) MC is listing both members of a team as such. Because why not?
Portfolio: lasseandsuchi.com
Keenon Daniels is a copywriter in Cape Town, South Africa (interested in finding a gig in NYC, by the way). Lots of great stuff all over his site, including a couple of categories that are pretty tough: package design and direct mail. Don’t miss his campaign for Musica’s rock star-themed products. Awesome.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/keenondaniels
Chase is a copywriter/comedian in NYC. He’s got some fun new work for Planter’s, plus good times for Fanta, Time Warner Cable, Burger King, and others. Also, be sure to click on his link “My Comedy (and other projects)” and then scroll down to video #2, “This is the only kind of house party that I like …”
Portfolio: chasedomergue.com
Alison Wong of San Francisco-based Byliner is looking for a copywriter. If you’re not familiar with Byliner, here’s the description from their site: “Byliner helps you discover & discuss great stories and great writers. We’ll find you something good to read.” And that’s no joke, with authors like Margaret Atwood signed on. From Alison: “As our copywriter in an office bursting with writers and editors, you’ll be in grammar heaven. We’re searching for someone to develop copy for marketing materials: print ads, emails, web banners, landing pages, and registration pages. You’ll be working with both editorial and marketing departments to craft the perfect promotion, campaign and message, every time.
Email Alison (subject line “Byliner Copywriter”): alison@byliner.com
Official job description: http://byliner.com/jobs#copywriter
Deacon Webster, Chief Creative Officer at Walrus NYC, is looking for a CW. From Deacon: “Walrus is looking for a writer who can really write. Somebody who can take words and bend them to their will. Somebody who can jump from sophisticated to surreal without thinking about it. Somebody who can write headlines that are funny and write dialogue that’s funny, and understands that the two are different. Somebody who can take a good idea and make it better with a few well placed bits of language. Somebody who wants to sell awesome work. You’ll have the chance to work on everything that comes through the door, so you won’t get bored. Everyone at Walrus is also really nice.”
Contact: creative@walrusnyc.com
Ben is a recent grad from Creative Circus, looking for his first CW gig. Tell you one thing, MC was so excited to click through Ben’s campaign for Heinz Manup and discover that there is a product out there that actually combines ketchup and mayo, one of the best condiment combos on Earth. That is, until MC Googled it, and realized it was just a stroke of ad school genius. Dang! Was already thinking about hitting Costco for the 112 oz tub. Ah, well. Tip ‘o the Hat, Mr. Santoriello.
Portfolio: bensantoriello.com
Matt is a copywriter/Creative Executive at CAA in Los Angeles. He’s been busy since his last MC post about a year ago, including a stint on the writing team of Eastbound & Down Season 3, stemming from the ad work he did for the show. (Awesome.) Don’t miss his Fake Craigslist Ads, especially the last one, “I don’t like the baby we adopted (Beverly Hills)” and his subsequent visit from non-fake police detectives. Hilarious.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/mattheath
Joel is a copywriter/ACD at Eleven in San Francisco, previously at Pereira O’Dell, CP+B, and AKQA. He was last up on MC in Jan 2010, and since then has added all kinds of new work. Killer book then. Even killerer now. Definitely time for an update.
Portfolio: joelakaplan.com
Greg is a copywriter/CD at Ogilvy NY. He’s got a brand new site and a bunch of new work to go with it, including an interactive touch wall for IBM at the US Open, and three new spots for IBM. But honestly, there’s so much killer work in Greg’s portfolio, any excuse to post it again is a good excuse.
Portfolio: greggerstner.com
Rick Morrison, graduating Circus CW, checks in with a new site featuring his entire graduating class—the biggest in Circus history. (Congrats!) From Rick: “We wanted to pay homage to our class–the biggest in school history–as well as show off everyone’s individuality. So we created Creative Circus High School 2012, a fun, semi-ridiculous website for posterity and to introduce our class to all of you in the real world. Click the heads to hear our catch phrases and click names below for personal sites.”
Site: cchs2012.com/copywriters
Leah is a copywriter in Minneapolis. Check out her “shaving for good” campaign for The Bridging Barber. When did grooming for charity officially become a thing? Movember started in 2004, was it then? Don’t know, but MC respects macho, pruning and positivity, so it’s all love.
Portfolio: leahraymetz.com
Brad is a copywriter/ACD in San Francisco. People often ask MC, what makes a good CW portfolio? Pretty simple. When you’re clicking through it, do you feel jealous? Of the work? Do you wish it was yours? That’s a good start. Brad’s site includes a campaign that made MC so jealous back in the day. That 7-Eleven experiential campaign, where they turned 12 stores into Kwik-E-Marts from the Simpsons to hype the release of the Simpsons Movie. Just fantastic.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/bradleymeyers
Steve is a copywriter/CD in NYC. He shares a site with AD/CD Jerome Marucci (who submitted it to MC, thanks man), and holy smokes it’s a great one. Google, Monster.com, BBC World News, FedEx, G4TV, Guinness, Virgin Mobile, ESPN, and it goes on. Just amazing work, all the way through. Love it.
Portfolio: butterandjerome.com
Görkem is a 22-year-old copywriter at DDB Istanbul (been there almost a year). Maybe some of us won’t understand everything in Görkem’s book, but no matter. What’s we can understand is fun, and MC loves having Istanbul on the site.
Portfolio: gorkemciftci.com
Michael is a copywriter in San Francisco. One of MC’s fave things about clicking through a CW’s print book is how quickly you get to see them write in completely different voices. Such a huge part of what we do—embodying the personalities of companies and speaking as them. Click through Michael’s print and you go from mischievous Hornitos, to witty HP, to a One Show headline, to (and here’s the big step) of-the-people Walmart. That’s what it’s all about.
Portfolio: currancopy.com
Justin is a senior copywriter at T3 in Austin. MC predicts that someday, Austin will be the advertising equivalent of Minneapolis in the south. Got the music. Got the culture. Got the Longhorns. Got Justin Clemens, writing for Dell, WSJ, U of Texas, Tidy Cats, and (most importantly) his nephew Owen’s Austin Addy-winning birth announcement.
Portfolio: justinclemens.com
Agustin is a new CW grad from Art Center College of Design (today, actually—congrats, Agustin!). Don’t miss his “Heal The Bay – Ditch The Bag” campaign, which is heavily influenced by the recent popularity of literary erotica for women and movies about male strippers. Not kidding.
Portfolio: thebookofagustin.com
Jay is a senior copywriter in Denver. Lots of fun stuff in his portfolio, including mad libs biz cards for David Pahl Photography. If you’re a copywriter, at some point in your career you’re going to try a campaign/piece that uses mad libs, and 99.9999% of the time it will be DOA. Odds are, you’ll get feedback like “people hate word puzzles” or “people don’t like to read” or “that’s too much thinking.” Which is infuriating, because it’s true. But people should like to read, and they should like to think, and if we help them do that, aren’t we making the world a better place, one David Pahl Photography biz card at a time? These questions are too deep for MC. But nice work, Mr. Roth.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/jayroth
Brad is a copywriter/ACD at Trozzolo in Kansas City. MC is clicking through Brad’s book and what pops up onto the screen shining like a glorious piece of print glory? Is it, could that be, but it’s not, yes it is, a long copy campaign for a bank, including one ad that’s nothing but words? “Like a steam engine coal slinger, you stoke it with the next client contract …” Oh hells yes.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/bradhamilton
Torin is a copywriter at Wexley School for Girls in Seattle (and has slept there “approximately nine times”). How much does MC dig his Microsoft Kinect for Windows project? The most. Recruiting engineers with a bacon cart outside Amazon and Google HQs. Balls. Genius + balls.
Portfolio: torindaniels.com
Adam is a senior copywriter at Mullen, NC. Lots of killer work in his book, and great writing all over it: headlines to dialogue to office gambling. Plus, a spot featuring LeBron James that is real-deal funny. NICE. Tip o’ the Hat, Mr. Koehler.
Portfolio: adamkoehlercreative.com
Rafi Kugler, Creative Talent Manager at Draftfcb SF, is looking for both a senior writer (for EA and Kikkoman) and a senior team (for EA). Chris Ford, CCO of Draftfcb, is a good friend of MC and a brilliant writer/CD. If you’re in the market, these are killer gigs. Descriptions and contact info below.
Senior Writer: “DRAFTFCB San Francisco is looking for a senior writer to work on EA and Kikkoman. Senior writer means 5+ years in the business, an understanding of the industry from strategy to production and a hunger to lead. Versatility is key. From The Sims to Dead Space to Kikkoman, writing in different tones is an essential skill. Each game, every Kikkoman campaign, is fully integrated, so fluency in traditional, digital, experiential and experimental thinking is the price of entry. These two accounts have us filming documentaries in Japan, retouching everyone from Katy Perry to David Hasselhoff and visiting France and New York to pick up some shiny objects. The expectation is autonomous operation, plane-landing capacity, client savvy and exceptional work. Videogame interest/experience/mastery a huge plus. No softball skills required.”
Senior Team: “DRAFTFCB San Francisco is looking for a senior team to work on EA. Senior means 5+ years in the business, leading meetings, landing planes and handling projects without constant supervision. Team means we’re looking for people with partners. If there’s no partner, or the current one sucks, we’re open to matchmaking, resurrection and suggestions. EA titles cover a broad range of genres. From first-person-shooters like Medal of Honor, to gory space thrillers like Dead Space, to the playfully naughty Sims, each game requires fully integrated thinking. Anything less is not how we do. This is the client the agency doubles down on. It’s the account that brings home the hardware. From Lions and Pencils, to Hasselhoff and Beckham, this role is a trial by opportunity. Videogame interest/experience/mastery a huge plus. No softball skills required.”
Please send work to Rafi at: rafi.kugler@draftfcb.com
You know what’s hard? Really hard? Nailing low budget TV. But check out Natasha’s work for Tufts, al fresco, Bertucci … one solid spot after another, made awesome with great ideas and writing. NICE.
Portfolio: natashaorourke.carbonmade.com
David is a writer/CD in NYC. Lots of skiing, winter sports and general outdoorsy-ness all over his portfolio, including a solid mix of digital, print and TV.
Portfolio: thedlweb.com
Justin is a writer/CD at Saatchi NY, previously at CP+B, Vitrorobertson, Arnold and Red Tettemer. Wow, what a portfolio. Hulu with Alec Baldwin, Best Buy twelpforce, Burger King, ESPN, Miller, Volkswagen, and it keeps going like that. Love it love it love it.
Portfolio: jebertcopy.com
Jeff is a copywriter at 22squared in Tampa. He wrote the above campaign for Jackson Hewitt, featuring the above spot with “Steve” in what’s possibly the happiest first 10 seconds of any spot in the history of mankind. Tip o’ the Hat.
Portfolio: jeff-hampton.com
Thomas was last featured on MC on 3.25.11. Since then, he’s landed a new copywriter gig at kempertrautmann (Deutschland), added a bunch of new work, and made himself known at Cannes. Time for an update, no doubt about it.
Portfolio: thomas-kuhn.com
Diane Seimetz, Principal/Brand Insights at Launch in Carrollton, Texas, is looking for a writer. From Diane, “We are mega-agency refugees who decided if we were going to work for lunatics, they might as well be us. Our culture is creative-centric (kismet: two of the three principals are, indeed, creative people), smart, with a generous helping of “alecky” thrown in. As a boutique, we have been able to attract like minded mega-agency client refugees who wanted more big ideas with fewer layers. Our resulting collection of accounts are amazing and amazingly varied; they range, literally, from brass bands to Bentleys. Does that sound fun, or what.
We are looking for a special person who happens to double as a great writer. Maybe ‘great conceptual person with impeccable taste’ might be a better articulation. You think in ideas and campaigns. You’re a collaborator, your ideas runneth over, you have a strong work ethic, you want to impact the companies you create for, and dream of having an entire agency helping you sell your work (versus, say, killing it before it leaves the building). You’ve got award-winning TV and radio, cackle-producing print, ingenious out of home, intriguing interactive. You are selfish about building your book. Every brief is an opportunity waiting to happen. If any of the aforementioned resonates with you (er, you all…this is Texas), that could be a sign. Please forward your resume, salary requirement (puleeze), and digital renditions of your portfolio as soon as humanly possible.”
Email to: dseimetz@launchagency.com
Haley is a new copywriter at GSD&M, fresh out of Creative Circus (fantastic first gig). Which means that we get to see what kind of student work a shop like GSD&M is digging right now. Like Haley’s Two Men and a Truck campaign. Maybe it’s due to the number of moves MC has gone through over the past few years (lots), but love that one. Especially the wallscape. So on the money.
Portfolio: haleygardner.com
Ladies and gentlemen, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of five Summer 2012 Creative Circus graduating copywriters (in alphabetical order):
Sarah Anderson (now at Goodby in SF) – sarahaanderson.com
Hall Carey – hallcarey.com
Grant Cohen – grantcohenhere.com
David Dulock (now at Digitas Atlanta) – cargocollective.com/daviddulock
Brent Goldman (interning at firstborn) – brent-goldman.com