Since his last post on MC a little over two years ago (01.26.15), Ben has gone freelance and added a bunch of new work to his site—including “Amanda Cerny 19th Century Striptease” for Smith & Forge Hard Cider (above). Nice. Ben also does VO work, including national TV campaigns for Old Dominion, McDonald’s, and 24 Hour Fitness. Time for an update!
Portfolio: bensantoriello.com
David is a freelance copywriter/ACD/stand-up comedian in San Francisco. Since his last post on MC (11.06.13), David has focused on comedy and comedy projects—and his site totally reflects that. Which is both awesome and once again proves MC’s theory that drummers, surfers and comedians make great copywriters. Killer projects up and down his site, but don’t miss his first link, Stand-Up Comedy. So funny.
Portfolio: seriousboyfriend.com
Reagan is a senior copywriter/ACD in New York. So many killer projects on her site. Peyton Manning for DIRECTV, “Never Again” for PIXMA, Nexcare Nana vs. Car Wash, and the one and only MC Hammer for Command Hooks (above). Dig it!
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/reaganwrites
Shelley is a freelance senior copywriter/ACD in Los Angeles. All kinds of cool projects on her site for clients like Office, Hardee’s, Carl’s Jr, and MS Office, but don’t leave without watching Hot Wheels for Real. The kind of project that makes kids want to grow up to be race car drivers copywriters. Love it.
Portfolio: shelleybarkerwrites.com
Steve is a copywriter/creative director at The Richards Group in Dallas. All kinds of killer projects on his site, from “Nothing good happens after midnight. Except Denny’s.” to “Hacker” for Motel 6 (so perfectly relevant at the time of this posting!). Don’t miss his terrifying “Termites are monsters” spot for Terminix (above). Yikes!
Portfolio: stevegrimescreative.com
New copywriters! Nothing MC likes better. Ladies and gents, below are links to four Creative Circus December 2016 graduating writer portfolio sites:
Jessica Hartman (copywriter) – jessicadawnhartman.com
Sydney Langway (copywriter) – sydneylangway.com
Dan Lemaux (copywriter) – danlemaux.com
Estephania Martin (copywriter) – estephaniamartin.com
December 2016 Creative Circus Week on MC continues, today with the portfolio sites of eight art director grads. Can’t wait to see where they’re gonna land!
Lauren Adams (art director) – laurenbrookeadams.com
Michelle Bird (art director) – michellelouisebird.com
Leslie Graham (art director) – leslyegraham.com
Sally Mills (art director) – stuffbysally.com
Chidalu Montanya (art director) – chidalu.com
Derek Smith (art director) – derekcsmith.com
Shannon Steger (art director) – shannonsteger.com
John Wood (art director) – johnleowood.com
Ladies and gentlemen, this week MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of December 2016 Creative Circus grads: designers (Monday), art directors (Tuesday), and copywriters (Wednesday). Congrats to all!
Patrick Bone (designer) – patrickbonedesign.com
Catherine Buchanan (designer) – catbuchanan.com
Deanna Clark (designer) – deannaclark.com
Ana De Olano (designer) – anadeolano.com
Katherine Law (designer) – katherinelaw.com
Adam Vettraino (designer) – adamvettraino.com
Mary Claire White (designer) – mcforshort.com
Candice is a new art director in Chicago after recently graduating from Chicago Portfolio School. Don’t miss her projects for the Talkspace app (above, online access to therapists) and Kotex “Congrats, you’re not pregnant!” greeting cards. Such a funny idea. How are those not a thing yet?
Portfolio: candiceschlax.com
Mark is a senior integrated copywriter at MDG in Boca Raton, Florida. He’s gone full Florida 80’s retro with both the URL and design of his site, including the tag: “Creating Words and Ideas in America’s Weirdest State.” That’s a lot of portfolio site bravery, Mr. Trueblood. Respect.
Portfolio: floridacopywriterman.com
Tracy is a new copywriter in San Francisco after graduating from Miami Ad School a few months back. Check out her powerful Norton video against cyberbullying (above, whew!). Also, don’t miss her video for Airbnb Arena, which is a super fun idea—minus the cleaning bills. Yikes. Can’t wait to see where Tracy lands!
Portfolio: tracysilagi.com
Kyle is a senior copywriter at Sterling Rice Group in Boulder, previously at Preston Kelly in Minneapolis (where MC spent some time back in the day). Fun mix of clients on his site, including California Almonds, Daisy Cottage Cheese, the US Potato Board, and Nickelodeon Universe (above). In addition to writing, Kyle also performs marriages as an internet minister, plays in bands which have included Men Who Control The Weather, Caution Peanut, and Shark Town, and smashes pumpkins to Smashing Pumpkins. Yes.
Portfolio: kyleparr.com
Nothing MC loves more than posting the portfolio sites of brilliant new copywriters. Ladies and gents, below are links to 11 Chicago Portfolio School Fall 2016 graduating writers (in alphabetical order):
Sarah Bass (copywriter) – sarahrbass.com
Olivia Crandall (copywriter) – oliviacrandall.com
Kaitlynn Frank (copywriter) – kaitlynnfrank.com
Chris Glascock (copywriter) – glascockforcopywriter.com
Cole Hintz (copywriter) – medium.com/cole-hintz
Scott Mendlinger (copywriter) – scottmendlinger.com
Kevin Murray (copywriter) – kevinmurraydotcomwastaken.
Brett Rimkus (copywriter) – brettrimkus.com
Shawn Rudolph (copywriter) – shawnrudolphcreative.com
Nika Sagalchik (copywriter) – nikachik.com
James Scharfe (copywriter) – jimscharfecreative.com
Angela Williams (copywriter) – angeladwilliams.com
Fall 2016 Chicago Portfolio School Week on MC continues, today with the portfolio sites of seven September art director grads. Get ’em while they’re hot!
Allie Hunt (art director) – alliehuntad.com
Chris Kilmer-Lipinski (art director) – chriskilmerlipinski.com
Danny O’Donnell (art director) – danny-odonnell.com
Madeline Reusch (art director) – maddiereusch.com
Candice Schlax (art director) – candiceschlax.com
Jake Starr (art director) – jake-starr.com
James Stolbom (art director) – jamesstolbom.com
Ladies and gentlemen, this week MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of September 2016 Chicago Portfolio School grads: designers (Monday), art directors (Tuesday), and copywriters (Wednesday). Congrats to all!
Elise McIntyre (designer) – elisemcintyre.com
Jen Mulvihill (designer) – jenmulvihill.com
Raina Shannon (designer) – rainashannon.com
Vicki Wrobel (designer) – vickiwrobel.com
Mike is a copywriter at VML in NYC where he helped create the above Moto Dojo campaign highlighting Motorola’s Moto Action. There are times when every copywriter gets lost in the grind of penning 500 tags for some new product that doesn’t really need a tag and questions, “Why? Is this really a job? Is what I do worthy of my short time on this planet?” Then comes along a project like Mike’s Moto Dojo and it all goes out the window. Of course this isn’t a real job. Look at what we do. And yet, somehow, they pay us. Shhh.
Portfolio: mikebreighner.com
Calli graduated from Chicago Portfolio School earlier in the year and is now a junior copywriter at mcgarrybowen in Chicago. Her portfolio is still mostly fun spec projects (so cool to see what gets a CPS grad into a shop like mcgarrybowen), and the first celebrates Waffle House servers as saints. Probably more than Waffle House would go for in the real world—but they should totally do the candles for employee of the month. Also on Calli’s site is a campaign for MOBA (above), the Museum Of Bad Art, which MC never knew existed. Hello, road trip.
Portfolio: callihoyt.com
Allison is a senior art director at Barkley in Kansas City, MO. (Her site was submitted by Will Benham, senior copywriter, big ups!) Allison’s Gift of Giving video for JCPenny (above) proves once and for all that giving is at least as good as getting. Nice. Also, don’t miss her Handmade and Invitations & Design pages. The girl likes to make stuff. Dig it.
Portfolio: allisonbhatta.com
On Saturday 9/24, MC posted September 2016 graduating Circus writers and art directors. Today, we’ve got the designers (shout out to Kristin Martin, Director of Creative Services at Circus). Congrats to all of the recent grads!
Lina Bahri – linabahri.com
Brandi Dewberry – brandidewberry.com
Rachel Burt – rachel-burt.com
Kate Lewkowicz – katelewkowicz.com
Olivia McWhirter – oliviamdesign.com
Stephanie Morgan – stephaniehelenmorgan.com
Andy Myrick – philip-myrick.squarespace.com
Caitlin Parent – caitlinparent.com
Amberlynn Pope – hiamberlynn.com
Robyn Steadham – rlsteadham.com
Manya Swick – manyaswick.com
Allyson Tachiki – allysontachiki.com
Mary Claire White – mcforshort.com
Dominique is a copywriter at Sanders\Wingo in Austin, Texas. Every once in a while, you see a scene in a spot in a fellow copywriter’s portfolio and think to yourself, “He/she wrote that so that he/she could be on-set for that scene.” The above for Dominique’s AT&T spot featuring Jenifer Lewis qualifies. Dig it.
Portfolio: dominiquecreates.com
Ladies and gentlemen, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of September 2016 Creative Circus graduates (in alphabetical order). NOTE: If you’re a Circus grad and would like to be added to this post, just shoot an email with your link to jason@moderncopywriter.com.
Adil Hussain (writer) – adilwritescopy.com
Amy Lazo (writer) – amylazo.com
Andrew Wernette (writer) – AWtheCW.com
Anh Nguyen (writer) – anhsbrightideas.com
Anna Crane (writer) – annacrane.co
Ashlyn Bell (writer) – ashlynmariebell.com
Audrey Saunders (art director) – audreysaunders.com
Chris Davis (writer) – christophdav.com
Corey O’Brien (writer) – itscoreyo.com
Courtney Hoenicke (writer) – illtakeanumberten.com
Dwight Williams (art director) – dwightwilliamsjr.com
Emily Bress (writer) – emilybress.com
Evan Easley (writer) – evaneasley.com
Grace Martin (art director) – gracemar10.com
Hannah Heller – (copywriter) – thecurlyh.com
Jane Stephens (art director) – janespelledjane.com/janestephens
Jared Fernandes (writer) – FernandesWithAnS.com
Jared Owenby (writer) – jaredonb.com
Jessica Kesner (art director) – jessicakesner.com
Katie D’Agostine (writer) – schmadvertising.com
Kelsey Heard (art director) – kelseyheard.com
Keri Speer (art director) – kerispeercreative.com
Kory Brocious (art director) – korybrocious.com
Lacie Johnson (art director) – lacieraejohnson.com
Makeda Loney (copywriter) – makedaloney.com
Mary Gilmore (art director) – marygilmoread.com
Nick Rog (art director) – nickrog.com
Reagan Fromm (art director) – reaganmfromm.com
Regina Strong (writer) – regina-strong.com
Sam Johnson (art director) – samjohnsondotcomwastaken.
Sammi Chancey (writer) – sammichancey.com
Tyler Emmons (art director) – tyleremmons.com
Andrei is a copywriter/VP, Brand Creative Director at MTV in NYC, which sounds like the coolest job ever. Since his last post on MC back on 03.02.12, Andrei moved to New York, worked at Anomaly and Grey, and now leads MTV’s in-house creative department. He’s also added all kinds of new work to his portfolio, including MTV VMA campaigns (for which he’s won a bunch of Cannes Lions). Time for an update!
Portfolio: andreichahine.com
Bonus CPS weekend post! Last May, Chicago Portfolio School graduated six new copywriters (big ups to Kristen Manias for sending them in). Excited to have them up on MC now.
Kristen Manias – kristenmanias.com
Kurt Monette – kurtmonette.com
Isaac Glover – isaacglover.com
Rae Faiman – raefaiman.com
Jessi Pelzel – jessipelzel.com
Mitch Reeter – mitchreeter.com
Ladies and gentlemen, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of 13 Miami Ad School copywriter graduates (in alphabetical order):
Alejandra Cid – alejandracid.net
Chanae Reed – chanaereed.com
Charlotte Bent – charlottebent.com
Chris Lou – chrislou.co
Greg Ward – gregwardcreative.com
Jared Powell – jaredthomaspowell.com
Kim Truong – kimtruong.work
Michael Fleming – michaelfleming.work
Rachel Landau – rachelroselandau.com
Stephanie Huber – stephanie-huber.squarespace.com
Tanvi Tandon – tanvitandon.com
Tino Gonzalez-Kakouris – tinogk.com
Wael Khairy – waelkhairy.com
Wael is a copywriter/filmmaker who graduated from Miami Ad School last week—though he does have quite a bit of CW and film experience pre-MAS. You can see that experience represented in his portfolio, especially in case studies he’s put together for his projects. Throughout this graduating MAS class, it’s very cool to see how students are putting their personal experience, skills and interests into how they present their work. Dig it.
Portfolio: waelkhairy.com
Tanvi is a new copywriter (or bust) in NYC after graduating from MAS last week. During her internship at 360i in NYC, she helped put together the above project to pitch Bose for the Super Bowl: “We turned tweets with #LetsHearIt into all possible genres of music, which you can view on this Tumblr page.” 360i even pitched it to Bose on Tanvi’s birthday. Now that’s a good internship!
Portfolio: tanvitandon.com
Charlotte is a new copywriter in NYC after graduating from MAS last Friday. (Big ups!) So much to like on her site, from her projects for Tylenol (above), Gilt, Champion, and Lego, to her About Charlotte Bent music video mash-up. She’s also included a bit of stand-up (on page LOL), proving once again MC’s theory that copywriters are really just comedians who don’t want to be broke. Dig it.
Portfolio: charlottebent.com
Kayla is a junior art director at mcgarrybowen in Chicago (graduated from Chicago Portfolio School in 2015). One of MC’s favorite things is being able to look at a portfolio soon after someone lands at their first shop—and see what it really takes to get a job at an agency like mcgarrybowen. Very cool.
Portfolio: kayladucklo.com
Josh is an art director at Saatchi in Los Angeles. Tons of projects for Toyota on his site, including a series of influencer videos for 4Runner. Don’t miss “The Last Jump” by Chris McNamara (above), which shows what can happen when base jumping doesn’t go as planned. (Gulp.) Cool use of YouTube’s annotation feature for this project.
Portfolio: joshdweiss.com
Rob is an art director (JWT, Leo Burnett, Creative Circus) turned photographer who now shoots full time. You can see the AD influence in his photography—including his projects Childhood Cancer Superheroes, 2016 Wheelchair Softball World Series, and RIC Hornets Wheelchair Basketball (above). Very cool.
Portfolio: robgregoryphotography.com