Justin is a copywriter at R/GA in San Francisco, Cutwater and McCann T.A.G. before that. How about this for a client list: Jeep, Ray-Ban, Nike, Arnette, Oreo, Master Lock, Gibson. Suh-weeet.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/justinchen
Neil is a copywriter/ACD at BBDO West in San Francisco, Odiorne and Chiat before that. Lots of awesome SF Zoo work on his site. Check out his Innovative Media section.
Portfolio: neilrlevy.com
Roger is a copywriter/ACD in NYC, formerly at Lowe and Leo Burnett. In the Content section of his site, check out rexona. Robots auditioning for commercials. Hilarious.
Portfolio: rogerbaran.tv
Adam is a Sr Copywriter at Draftfcb in Los Angeles, Chiat and DDB before that. And he’s a rock star.
Portfolio: theadamshow.com
Christian is a copywriter at SK+G in Las Vegas. Almost everything in his book has something to do with Vegas, but what a cool variety: Las Vegas and Bon Appetit, National Finals Rodeo in Vegas, Vegas TAP Project, etc. And don’t miss the last campaign in Print for Borders. Just perfect.
Portfolio: christiandurrett.com
Neel is a copywriter at The Martin Agency in Richmond, Y&R NY before that. As the father of a daughter, an extremely talkative daughter, I looove Neel’s Cellular South spot. (Made coffee shoot out my nose.) His blog, Superuselsess Superpowers, is just ridiculous. I’m so buying the book.
Portfolio: neelwilliams.com
Scott is a copywriter at Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis, Energy BBDO before that. If you’ve visited MC before, you probably know that I have a thing for remedial video games, having grown up in the Pong Generation. Scott’s made a good one. “Man Luge.”
Portfolio: Click here
Evan is a copywriter at Sid Lee in Montreal, BBDO before that. Lots of cool work for Adidas on his site. Don’t miss Print, which is grouped together in one section about halfway down the page, Art (my fave is “one part loss, one part gain”), and Design: Enigma Travel.
Portfolio: evanbrown.carbonmade.com
Barbara Schwartz – baschwartz.com
Chris Stephens – awisebeardedwriter.com
Dylan Meagher – dylanmeagher.com
Grace Harris – lydiagraceharris.com
Heather Ryder – heather-ryder.com
Joe Hagel – joehagel.com
John Colin Quinn – johncolinquinn.com
Matt Spicer – mattspicer.com
Mike Nichols – tallmikenichols.com
Natalie Hammel – nataliehammel.com
Nate Totten – natetotten.com
Talia Ledner – beersontheroof.com
Chris just accepted a job as a Jr Copywriter at Chiat NY. (Yes!) Right out of school, just like that.
Portfolio: awisebeardedwriter.com
Nate is graduating from VCU on May 22nd. He calls himself Man Of The Wind. “Oh, he’s from Chicago,” you think. Nope, Kansas. “Then why not Dust In The Wind?” you ask. Because Nate’s so young, he’s probably never heard Dust In The Wind. “Oh God, I’m old,” you think. Me too.
Portfolio: natetotten.com
Colin graduates from VCU in May. There’s a ton of good writing on his site. Diamond Toothpicks is hilarious. Check out his rez, which is a big map of the world. Where hasn’t he taught English?
Portfolio: johncolinquinn.com
Natalie will graduate from VCU in May. Her portfolio site is titled DIE FAT: “Die Fat is an attitude, approach toward life and a social experiment. I was put on this planet to be a sponge and I won’t be satisfied until I soak up every bit of curious matter in my surroundings and non-surroundings. Like creative chlorophyll, I get my breath from absorbing the world’s ecstatic experiences. Die Fat is how I want to live every day until the day I die fat.”
Portfolio: nataliehammel.com
Dylan will graduate from VCU on May 22nd. It’s so interesting to compare student books from different schools. (Note: No favorites here. All of the schools featured on MC are awesome.) Dylan’s portfolio is all about integrated case studies. Check out Pampers. He’s thought of everything.
Portfolio: dylanmeagher.com
Andy is an interactive copywriter/ACD at CP+B in Boulder. Dare you to find something uncool on his site. Even the URL is sick. Don’t miss: Cheerleidoscope, 12 Months of Andy & Liza, and Accidental Dong.
Portfolio: ievenwrotethissickurl.com
Casey is a copywriter at BBDO NY. In the year-and-a-half since she graduated from VCU, she’s put together a really fun portfolio, including that AT&T spot with the Jr. Assistant who runs around getting stuff for Mariah Carey. Love when he kicks the elevator button. Perfect ending. She’s also got a killer blog called People Who Deserve It. Getting punched in the face, that is. Soon to be a book.
Portfolio: caseyrand.com
Mike is a copywriter/VP/ACD at The Martin Agency in Richmond, CP+B and WestWayne (under Luke Sullivan) before that. His site is a straight-up, old school Blogger blog with zero extra fanciness. That’s what you can do when you have a portfolio like Mike’s portfolio. Which, if you haven’t guessed, is just absolutely, completely awesome.
Portfolio: mikelearportfolio.blogspot.com
Amy is a copywriter/ACD at Hoffman York in Chicago after doing time at Leo Burnett, Cramer-Krasselt and Arnold. She wrote a spot for the Broan Ultra Silent Fan that I’ve seen about a zillion times (yes, I watch HGTV), and there’s a moment at the end that cracks me up. In the version on her site, they let that moment play out. Fun.
Portfolio: writesomethingnow.carbonmade.com
Adam Jackson – adamjacksontheperson.com
Ashley Cagle – ashleycagle.com
Ben Bliss – benblissed.com
Brent Weldon – brentweldon.com
Caroline Smith – carolinesmith.me
Chrissy Deem – cmdportfolio.com
David Cooper – cooperwrites.com
Devon Ament – devonament.com
Erica Donovaro – dandychick.com
Erin Collins – erincollinscw.com
John Anderson – johnranderson.net
Katie Brinkworth – katiebrinkworth.com
Kevin Still – stillkevin.com
Liza Behles – lizabehles.com
Mark Pantsari – mark-pantsari.com
Mary Money – itsmarymoney.com
Mehgan Levesque – mehganlevesque.com
Nattavut Leekulpitak – who-is-oo.com
Ben graduated from Circus in 2009 and is currently in Seattle, where he helped create the above Microsoft project with Wexley School For Girls. On his home page, Ben writes “I want to be an awesome copywriter.” Cool. Me too.
Portfolio: benblissed.com
Mary graduated from Circus in 2008 and lives in NYC. You can tell by her book that she has fun making ads. Just look at the one she did for Barbie up there. Dog pooping magic mushrooms. C’mon. Plus, her name is Mary Money. What more could you want?
Nattavut graduated from Creative Circus in 2010 and lives in Atlanta. I nabbed this from his LinkedIn page: “Nattavut Leekulpitak’s Specialties: Photographic memory, cooking Thai&Chinese dishes, talk shit about you in Thai while smiling at you.” Love it.
Portfolio: who-is-oo.com
Michael graduated from Creative Circus in 2009 and is currently living in Atlanta. Look out advertising, here comes Cambardella.
Portfolio: michaelcambardella.com
Erin graduated from Circus in 2009 and is now in Detroit. After you check out her book (and the above campaign for DSW), check out her About Me page. Good times.
Portfolio: erincollinscw.com
Jason is a freelance copywriter in LA after doing time at Ignited, DDB, Zuckerman, and The Richards Group. His Rose’s Cocktail Infusions campaign is funny. Makes me embarrassed to be a guy. Also check out his Zuckerman Self Promo. Gross, but you just know someone wore it to an agency party.
Scott is a freelance copywriter/CD in NYC, formerly SVP/Sr CD at BBDO. Where do I start? FedEx or Ebay TV, BBC or Milky Way alt, Snickers snowboarder virals? Too much killer work. I can’t decide.
Scott is a copywriter at Droga5. The first campaign on his site, for MTV, is stupid funny. The next one, for Swedish Fish, is just as stupid funny, and on it goes. NOTE: I’m usually not a fan of sound effects on portfolio sites, but the air horn is awesome.
Rich is a senior copywriter at Mullen in North Carolina. The biz card above is so cool I wanted to feature it in his post, but it’s not really representative of Rich’s work. He’s a headline writer. A good one. That’s so rare these days, I feel like I should put it in all caps. ALERT. AWESOME HEADLINE WRITER.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/brightblack
Martin is a freelance copywriter in NYC, after having spent time at McCann, mcgarrybowen, Cliff Freeman, D’Arcy and Wunderman. Lots of big idea visual print campaigns in his book. My fave is his Sketchbook (in Extras, third column down). You get to see inside Martin’s brain. Which, no coincidence, is full of big idea visual madness, and I mean that in a very good way. Wish more copywriters included sketchbooks – or something like them – on their sites. How great would it be to see a Janet Champ, Brock Davis, or Max Godsil sketchbook?
Alex is a junior copywriter in San Francisco. She’s already got an impressive freelance rez and a nice book to go with it, including a couple of killer games for Coke Happiness Factory 3.
Portfolio: almostperfectalex.com