Category Archives: U of Oregon

David Lieberman

David is a senior copywriter (and fellow Oregon Duck alum) who is on the hunt for his next big thing. Previously, he was at Media.Monks where he “conceptualized, wrote and pitched work that showcases the possibilities and potential of emerging technologies across a variety of channels, working with global innovators at PayPal and Meta — specifically within Reality Labs and WhatsApp.” In addition to tech brands, David’s site also features work for Lululemon, Nike and Jordan from his time at AKQA and Nike. (So many killer brands, sheesh.) Can’t wait to see where David lands!

Portfolio: david-lieberman.com

Ian Miller

Ian is a senior copywriter at Watson Creative in Portland (and an Oregon Duck like MC, go Ducks!). In addition to a bunch of great work, his site shows off his super smart strategic writing—with lots of manifesto and setup writing. So cool to see. Also, don’t miss Ian’s Art page with tons of essays, short stories, and poems that have been featured in variety of publications. Love it.

Portfolio: ianpatrickmiller.com

Natalie Mayer

Natalie is a new designer/art director and a recent graduate of the University of Oregon. (Go Ducks!) Her student portfolio is super fun, bright, and optimistic—love the big, bold type throughout (beautiful typography). Perfect for a spring Saturday post on MC. Can’t wait to see where Natalie lands!

Portfolio: natalieannmayer.com

Zach McKinney

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

Josh Gordon

Since his first post on MC (04.11.14) right after graduating from Miami Ad School NYC (and University of Oregon before that, go Ducks!), Josh has worked with R/GA, Barker DZP, and RICG. He’s also got a whole new site with projects for SlimFast, IDB Bank, Alcoholics Anonymous, Miele, Mercedes-Benz, and others. Time for an update.

Portfolio: jgocreative.com

UPDATE: Jim Terry

Since his last post on MC (03.26.12), Jim has moved from Portland to SoCal and added some new work to his site. Time for an update! It should also be noted that Jim is an Oregon grad, as is MC. So, while he’s now living the high life in Hermosa Beach or wherever, his head is firmly on the ground. Or his feet. No, his feet are in the sand. His head, then. On the ground. (Ahem.) Go Ducks!

Portfolio: themothership.cc

Josh Gordon

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Josh is a recent grad of Miami Ad School (Oregon before that, go Ducks!), in New York, just starting a gig at R/GA this very week. How great is that? Great. Who wouldn’t want to be Josh this week? Nobody. Meaning, everybody. Would want to be Josh this week. Nobody wouldn’t want to be him. Big ups, Josh!

Portfolio: jgocreative.com

UPDATE: Chris Elzinga

Chris is a freelance copywriter in San Francisco (and a fellow Oregon Duck — go Ducks!). Since his last post on MC (Nov 21, 2009), he’s got a new site with a ton of new work from killer shops like Pereira & O’Dell, Hub Strategy, AKQA, Eleven … and on and on. Dig it.

Portfolio: chriselzinga.com

Chase Domergue

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

UPDATE: Matt Heath

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

University of Oregon Week – CW Grads

Ladies and gentlemen, MC is proud to present the portfolio sites of the University of Oregon 2012 copywriter grads (in alphabetical order):

Adam Panetta – adampanetta.com

Alex Walentin – cargocollective.com/alexwalentin

Beckett Short – cargocollective.com/beckettshort

Ben Novak – cargocollective.com/bennovak

Breanne Thomas – breannethomas.net

Brenden Morgan – brenden-morgan.com

Don Whitlatch – cargocollective.com/doncwhitlatch

Eric Perrenoud – ericperrenoud.com

James Mueller – jamesjmueller.me

Justin Han – justinandrewhan.com

Kelsey Wilkins – kelseywilkins.com

Kris Cantrell – cargocollective.com/kriscantrell

Michelle McKenzie – michellermckenzie.com

Nickolaus Sugai – nicksugai.com

Niki Naboulsi – nikinaboulsi.com

Tyler Carrington – tycarrington.com

University of Oregon Week – Nickolaus Sugai

Nick shares a couple of campaigns with Niki Naboulsi (featured Tuesday), as happens when you’re in school, sharing resources, collaborating, etc. MC likes the teamwork. Anyway, also on Nick’s site be sure to check out: NASA, Fantasy Trainwrecks, and U of O Advertising. Love to see all of the real-life books being made and shot for portfolios. Love to see print alive and well, in any form. Very cool.

Portfolio: nicksugai.com

University of Oregon Week – Tyler Carrington

So interesting to see the trends running through CW portfolio sites at different schools. From Oregon, lots of poetry and beautiful video. (Not unexpected, with the W+K influence.) As an Oregon alum, I love Tyler’s time-lapse piece “Miniature Eugene.” Ah, Eugene.

Portfolio: tycarrington.com

University of Oregon Week – Niki Naboulsi

Oregon is Oregon, and you know when you go through an Oregon site there’s going to be some stuff that’s just out. Because that’s how Ducks do it. You also know you’re going to find stuff that’s just fun. Like Niki’s “Sweaty Little Secrets” campaign for Champion sweatpants. Or a page of pics of Oregon students, and when you hover over them, they laugh. Good times.

Portfolio: nikinaboulsi.com

University of Oregon Week – Breanne Thomas

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What do you want to see on a graduating copywriter’s site (in addition to great writing)? How far from “five campaigns plus a video” can they go? What’s relevant and what’s not? Physical artifacts of their dreams? Unsolicited signs out in the wild? Do those count? MC thinks yes.

Portfolio: breannethomas.net

Jim Terry

Jim is a copywriter/CD in Portland and a fellow Oregon Duck (Go Ducks!). Love the way he presents digital on his site. You can click around and explore it for yourself, or you can watch a killer highlight reel set to the Chemical Brothers in two and a half minutes. Dig it.

Portfolio: themothership.cc

Bob Rickert

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Bob is a copywriter/CD in Boulder and a fellow Duck (go Ducks!). In his Outdoor section, he has a campaign for the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame that features “the longest copy outdoor ads in American advertising.” About 10,500 words each. That’s what we like to see on MC. Only one complaint. Wish we could zoom in to read all of those beautiful words.

Portfolio: bobrickert.com

Jason Siciliano

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MC is two years old this month. To celebrate, I’m doing something I’ve never done before. I’m posting my own site. Which is both exciting and terrifying. To everyone who’s sent a link to MC over the past two years, the CWs, friends of CWs, schools, students, CDs, ADs, spouses, and that one Mom, thank you. It’s been a blast. Let’s keep it going.

Portfolio: jasonsiciliano.com

Matt Heath

Matt is a freelance copywriter in Los Angeles. His link was sent in by friend of MC, Karyn Campbell (at IdeaLists). The work on his site made me shoot coffee out my nose.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/mattheath

Anne Sanguinetti

Anne is a copywriter at Martin in Richmond. She’s also an Oregon grad (go Ducks!), plus her last name is Sanguinetti, which means that she’s probably going to be a huge star. You can see it already with her Walmart, Pedigree, Tap, and L.A. Times campaigns. Brilliant.

Portfolio: annesanguinetti.com

Kevin Thomson

Kevin is a senior copywriter at JWT in NYC. What a fun mix of clients in his book: Olympics, Jones Soda, Nike, Napa Valley Vineyards, Seattle Art Museum, Mud Truck, and the resurrection of the one-and-only Raaaaanieeeeerrrrrrr Beeeeeerrrrr.

Portfolio: kevin-thomson.com

Niels West

Niels is a senior copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather NY. (He’s also a fellow Oregon Duck. Go Ducks!) Lots of cool stuff on his site, including work for IBM, UN Climate Change Conference, US Open, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. By the way – how great does Vimeo HD video look? Now that you can watch Vimeo on iPhone, it may be time to officially crown it as the best option for portfolios.

Portfolio: nielswest.com

Will Ulbricht

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Will is a senior copywriter at Razorfish in Portland. How much does MC love the Pacific Northwest? W+K, Razorfish, Publicis, Creature, Cole & Weber, WongDoody, Wexley School For Girls … awesome. Plus, U of Oregon (Ducks!). So much great advertising. And the best people anywhere.

Portfolio: Click here

Evan Fry

Evan is Chief Creative Officer of Victors & Spoils, before that copywriter/CD/VP at CP+B. Probably don’t need to write more than that, do I? Absolutely, positively stellar.

Portfolio: evanfry.com

UPDATE: Sean McLaughlin

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Sean has moved to W+K NYC from Anomaly. It makes me so happy to write that. Not that he left Anomaly. Anomaly is awesome. But Sean and I went to Oregon together, and there’s a bond between Oregon and W+K that’s deep. Seeing Sean land at Wieden makes everything right in the world. Big congrats, Sean. And for the zillionth time, thanks for Reservoir Dogs and The Afghan Whigs.

Portfolio: lugree.com

Aaron Robnett

Aaron is a Senior Writer at Tauntr in Boston, Kirshenbaum before that, Cole & Weber before that. (He’s also a fellow Oregon Duck, yes!) His site is juiced. I found myself spending as much time playing around with the nav as I did looking at the work – and I mean that in a good way. It’s fun times.

Portfolio: aaronrobnett.com

Matt Morin

Matt is a San Francisco copywriter who, as it happens, was a college buddy of mine at U of Oregon. You know what’s not fair about writers like Matt? Writers who worked at good interactive shops like T3? Their slick sites that you just know were done in 30 minutes by one of their punk interactive buddies. Whatever, Matt. The rest of us use blogs. Free blogs. Like writers are supposed to use. Jerk.

Portfolio: mattmorincreative.com

Sean McLaughlin

Sean is a senior writer at Anomaly in NYC. I’ve been a fan for years and years.

Portfolio: lurgee.com

Chris Elzinga

Chris is a freelance copywriter in San Francisco. He writes like his pen is full of Tabasco. Love it!

Portfolio: chriselzinga.com