Category Archives: Location

University of Texas at Austin Week

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Big ups to Katie Samuelson and the one and only Chad Rea, amazing Austin writer/CD (and good friend to MC), who helped MC put together University of Texas at Austin Week. So many amazing creatives get their start at UT, one of the few traditional universities with a legit advertising program (along with VCU and Oregon). Can’t wait to see where this year’s grads land!

 

Copywriters

Brennen Cooke: brennencooke.com

Carolyn Hinojosa: carlynhinojosa.myportfolio.com

Charlotte Lichtenheld: charlottelichtenheld.com/work

Joy Kim: joykim.work

Kaie Samuelson: katiesamuelsen.com

Lexi Acevedo: alexisacevedo.squarespace.com

Marisa Valente: marisavalente.com

 

Art Directors

Angela Dai: angeladai.com

Bolero Munkhbold: boloramunkhbold.com

Chelsea Tijerina: chelseasheadspace.com

Drew Butler: drewbcreative.com

Jake Leber: jakeleber.myportfolio.com

Madeline Cuba: madelinecuba.com

Madii Poirot: madelinepoirot.com

 

University of Texas at Austin Week: Charlotte Lichtenheld

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Charlotte is a new copywriter and a recent grad of the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Creative program. The first two campaigns in her portfolio (at the time of this post) are exactly what you want from a student book: a stupid simple strategic hook and outrageous execution. “Families That Murder Together, Stay Together” for Clue, and “Premium Nip for Premium Pets” for Yeowww! Catnip. Ridiculous.

Portfolio: charlottelichtenheld.com

University of Texas at Austin Week: Angela Dai

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Angela is a new art director and a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Creative program. Sometimes you click through a portfolio and you can just tell—this person had so much fun making this creative. Amazing energy in all of Angela’s work. Be sure to check out her Illustration and Future pages. Awesome.

Portfolio: angeladai.com

University of Texas at Austin Week: Chelsea Tijerina

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Chelsea is a new art director/designer and a recent grad of the University of Texas at Austin Texas Creative program. Her site’s URL is “Chelsea’s Headspace” and that’s exactly what you get—to see in her head, with brilliant campaign ideas for brands like A Pea In The Pod, BBC, Arizona Tourism, Rosetta Stone, and Twitch, in addition to other pages (click “Art”) of super smart design, sketches & illustration, and 3-D design. Love it.

Portfolio: chelseasheadspace.com

Blake Morris

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Blake is a copywriter at Saatchi in NYC. Since his last post on MC just about two years ago (03.21.16), after graduating from Creative Circus, he’s been busy. All kinds of killer projects for Tide on his site, including some of the best spots (if not the best) from the last Super Bowl, plus videos with Terry Bradshaw and Gronk. That’s a good first two years!

Portfolio: blakemorris16.com

VCU Brandcenter Week – Class of 2018

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Big ups to VCU Brandcenter Director of Student Affairs and Industry Outreach, Ashley Sommardahl, for once again helping MC host VCU Brandcenter Week. And big, big ups to all of the VCU grads who will be running the ad biz soon enough. Do great work. Be kind to each other. Make the world a better place.

You can check out the portfolios of the entire VCU Brandcenter 2018 class, including copywriters, art directors, creative brand management, experience design, and strategy, on the VCU Brandcenter site here. Can’t wait to see where they land!

VCU Brandcenter Week – Brianna Gross

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Brianna is a new copywriter and a recent VCU grad. One of the great things about student campaigns is that you get to take an idea and run with it. And run and run and run and run with it. Who’s going to stop you? Nobody. In the case of Brianna’s “Pull This” campaign for Kraft String Cheese, she went from print to OOH to digital to in-store to vending machine to a String Cheese Festival in Pullman, WA, headlined by the String Cheese Incident. Because why the heck not.

Portfolio: briannagross.com

VCU Brandcenter Week – Allison Rinaldi

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Allison is a new art director and a recent VCU grad. At the time of this post, she’s got six spec projects and two produced projects on her site (don’t be fooled just because the produced ones are last, they’re just as good as the spec). Dig her creepy eye “Get Impossibly Close” campaign for Bushnell, and her “Sick Burns Candles” product development idea (so mean), which both have just the right amount of edge. Also dig her Unite by Kotex App. How have they not made that yet?

Portfolio: allisonrinaldi.com

VCU Brandcenter Week – Lynn Nakamura

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Lynn is a new art director and a recent VCU grad. She’s got so many different looks in her portfolio, but all of them have the coolest vibe: Venmo (above), Mütter Museum, Sector 9, That’s What She Said, Little Tikes, Wonder Bread, and Olympics. Also, don’t miss her magazine “Skinny Dipper” in Not Work. So cool.

Portfolio: lynnlnakamura.com

Shevek Anandan

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Shevek is junior copywriter at McCann in NYC and a graduate of Creative Circus. All kinds of killer projects in his portfolio and lots of great writing throughout. At the top of his site’s homepage is the line, “Here’s the work, and here’s the pudding if you’re short on time and just want the proof.” Click “here’s the pudding” and you go to another page that breaks out his work into Headlines, Commercials, Case Studies, Integrated Campaigns. Click on Headlines and you’re greeted with (in addition to some great lines), “Currently at a 200:1 embarrassing-scribble to solid-line ratio, but every 1 feels so damn good.” Amen.

Portfolio: shevekanandan.com

Spencer Knowles

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Spencer is a copywriter in Portland, Oregon who recently graduated from Brainco’s online program. His portfolio is a mix of spec and produced work that is both national and so very Portland (in such a good way). Clients (real and spec) include The Washington Post, Tetra Cannabis, Liquid Plumbr, Lipton Tea, 12oz Prophet, and the Portland Trimet (above). Looking forward to seeing what Spencer adds next!

Portfolio: spencerwknowles.com

Greg Kissler

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Greg is a senior copywriter at Ogilvy NY. Since his last post on MC (back on 08.04.14, when he was a jr copywriter at Merkley+Partners), he’s been busy. All kinds of awesome projects for IBM on his site, including IBM Mobile, IBM Cloud (above), IBM Watson, and IBM Marketing. Plus a couple of projects for Mercedes-Benz. Plus some killer photography. Dig it.

Portfolio: gkissler.com

Zach McKinney

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Zach is a copywriter at R/GA in NYC. (Also a fellow University of Oregon grad, go Ducks!) He’s got a bunch of cool projects for Verizon up on his site, including Find The 8 (above), an AR game that somehow got over 360,000 people to use SnapChat for an average of 31 minutes each. Love the project video they put together for it, too.

Portfolio: imakegood.work

Unnati Marda

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Unnati is an art director at Leo Burnett in Mumbai, India, previously at Fuseideas in Boston, and a graduate of Miami Ad School. Her book is a mix of visual design, UX, product innovation, and digital goodness. It’s also a mix of produced work (like the gif above for Subway) and student work from her time at MAD, which is so cool to see. Dig it.

Portfolio: unnatimarda.work

Dominique Curtis

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Dominique is a senior copywriter at R/GA in Austin. Since her last post on MC back on 09.29.16, Dominique has made her awesome (and hilarious) site even more awesome (and hilarious). Don’t miss her musical featuring Drew Barrymore for Crocs, “Come As You Are.” Seriously, Crocs. Also, be sure to check out Nyan Cat Man on her Personal Projects page. So dumb. So genius!

Portfolio: dominiquecreates.com

Al Merry

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Al is a freelance copywriter/CD in NYC, previously at Wieden + Kennedy in Amsterdam, NYC, and London, BBH before that. Holy smokes what a portfolio. There are so many amazing Nike projects on Al’s site, it’s almost a crime not to feature one of them. However, the above spot for Gap just killed MC when it came out, so it’s the one. But please, grab a beverage of your choice and a comfy chair, and take your time with Al’s site. It’s awesome.

Portfolio: alastairmerry.com

Brendan Quinn

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Brendan is a freelance copywriter/CD in Philadelphia, after more than a decade at 160over90. As the 8th employee at the shop (and their first full-time writer), he help grow 160over90 from small boutique agency to a national powerhouse—and his portfolio is full of killer projects to prove it: Nike, Philadelphia Eagles, Arnold Bread (above), Iron Hill Brewery, Mercedes-Benz Driving Academy, De’Longhi, and more. Dig it.

Portfolio: helloquinn.com

Nechama Muchnik

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Nechama is a copywriter in NYC. All kinds of super smart ideas on her site including Unsick Day for America’s Health (above), Find Your Formula for Streeteasy, Before It’s Normal It’s Art for MoMA (MC’s daughter is getting those socks), and a genius idea that’s going to make 99% of copywriters seeing it think to themselves, “How did I not think of that???” Biters by Oral-B, pens that improve your oral hygiene while you chew ’em. Brilliant.

Portfolio: nmuchnik.com

Copywriters Wanted: Barkley, Kansas City

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Ashley Aagaard, VP/Talent Acquisition at Barkley in Kansas City, is on the hunt for copywriters. From Barkely:

Barkley is hiring writers. More than one. 

Here’s the deal, we’ve got a talented art director who needs a writer-partner. To get this job you should have a few years’ experience and some smart work. You’ll be working on TV (yes, for real TV), social campaigns and other advertising things, so showing off your TV, social and other things in your book would help you land the position. In addition to coming up with great ideas, we also like our writers to be able to write clever headlines and sharp copy, so you’ll want some of that on your site too.

About Us:

A few things you should know before you join us.

We’re passionate people. Passionate about work. Passionate about life. We can’t help it. It’s just the way we are.

Maybe it’s because we’re independent and employee-owned. Maybe it’s because we hire outstanding people and then get out of their way.

Or maybe it’s because we believe in the power of a great idea, and that great ideas can come from anyone.

Responsibilities:

  • Gain a thorough understanding of the client’s business and industry.
  • Develop creative strategies and ideas that are innovative and that sell.
  • Concept and execute advertising consistent with the agreed-upon strategy.
  • Develop original visual concepts.
  • Seek out and work with outside suppliers (photographers, illustrators, etc.) and work closely with broadcast and print productions to accurately estimate and produce work.
  • Under the direction of the Creative Director, see all work through completion on time and on budget.
  • Work productively and harmoniously as a teammate with Art Directors and producers who share responsibility on a given product.
  • Present creative materials to clients, as needed.
  • Review proofs, rough cuts, etc. for accuracy before final production.

Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated ability to think creatively and provide marketable solutions in conceiving, developing, and producing tactics.
  • Bachelor’s degree or industry equivalent years of experience required
  • Up to 4 years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience

If all of this sounds good please apply here:

https://jobs.lever.co/barkleyus/72575968-fec9-41dc-b3c3-f6faad0bbde9

and don’t forget to submit a link to your work….

Tim Ryan

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Tim is a freelance art director/copywriter/CD-in-one based in Maryland. He’s got a new site showcasing years of work across just about every product category there is, from The Washington Post to the Library of Congress, Mercedes to the World War 1 Centennial Commission (above). Before advertising, he was a trucker who drove everything from Macks to Autocars, Internationals to Freightliners. MC has only driven a big truck once, a 26-foot Penske, got it stuck in a Wendy’s drive-thru in Nebraska. Tip o’ the hat, Tim.

Portfolio: timryancreative.com