John is a copywriter/ACD at Saatchi in Los Angeles. The work on his site is split into Online and Offline. In Online, check out the Land Cruiser site, RAV4 launch site, and Camry launch site (the remote control Camry on the landing page is FUN).
Peter Knierim
Peter is a copywriter/ACD at CP+B in Boulder. His site another example of a crazy-talented senior creative with awesome interactive work moving to a low-maintenance, free-of-charge blog. Scroll to the bottom and there’s a link to his old site, so you can check out the difference. Viva la blog!
Portfolio: checkoutmyportfolio.blogspot.com
Redactor Moderno
According to Google Analytics as of February 28, 2010, Modern Copywriter has been visited by 938 cities in 68 countries on five continents, and visitors have had 43 different primary languages. It’s about time MC featured a few of their sites too, no?
JP Caruso, Brazil – jpcaruso.com.br
Christian Tufano, Venezuela – ctufano.blogspot.com
Alex Hisaka
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
Barbara Kopeloff
Barbara is a senior copywriter at Tribal DDB in NYC, Ogilvy and R/GA and Big Spaceship before that. With all of that awesome interactive experience, and projects like HBO Voyeur, Nike+ and OfficeMax Arcade in her portfolio, what does Barbara’s site look like? Some big interactive production? Nope. Nine projects you can click through in about two minutes. And all of the info you could want for each project, right there, easy as Sunday morning.
Portfolio: barbarakopeloff.info
Anne Geri
Anne is a copywriter at Ogilvy NY, AKQA and GS&P before that. Don’t misses: Fanta, Coke.com, Court TV (above), and Anne’s blog NY Hearts You, Too.
Portfolio: annegeri.com
Felipe Bascope
Felipe is a copywriter/creative consultant in Los Angeles, formerly an ACD at Saatchi. He’s got a ton of great Toyota work on his site, but check out his stuff for the Surfrider Foundation. Wow.
Portfolio: felipe-felipeswork.blogspot.com
Jonny Watson
Jonny is an interactive copywriter/ACD at Dare, London. He shares a site with creative partner/AD/ACD Dan Harrison. I love how it’s organized. Everything is presented together in a succinct, coherent career story – how they became a team, employment history, the work, awards, all of it – on one tidy page.
Portfolio: danandjonny.com
Wade Paschall
Wade is a copywriter/CD in Boston, formerly a VP/GCD at Arnold. When you land on his site, you’ll see a pencil with his name on it, and right and left arrows. I recommend you go to the upper right hand corner of the screen and click the arrow way up there, then click on Print as Writer and start with Urban Decay. Just gorgeous writing. “My beautiful ten soldiers.” Love love love it.
Portfolio: wadepaschall.com
Ruchir Sachdev
Ruchir is a recent copywriter grad from Miami Ad School in Hamburg. He shares his site with art director and fellow MAS Hamburg grad, Sara Kujundzic. Their site is called Instant Ad Legend and it’s crazzzeee. The first thing you do is choose between Bill Bernbach, David Ogilvy, Leo Burnett, and Bruce Lee. Then you’re transported to a world of corrugated madness. If you can nav your way to Ruchir’s portfolio (good luck), check out the Van’s Roofitti case study. Good stuff, as is the site. Sometimes crazy works when it’s crazy enough, you know?
Portfolio: instantadlegend.com
Rick Abbott
Rick is a senior copywriter at JWT NY, BBDO before that. Don’t misses: Chewbacca Cingular spot (awesome), becomeANmm.com case study, and Rick’s ambient band MOON CAR.
Portfolio: rickabbott.squarespace.com
Daniel Cohen
Dan is a copywriter/SVP/CD at Publicis NY, JWT and DDB before that. I like how his site works. On the left is a small, simple nav box that shifts up and down so it stays vertically centered. The main window background changes to match the product/brand of the creative being featured. And despite Dan’s years in the biz, it’s a tight book: 9 TV, 10 print, 4 web, 2 entertainment.
Portfolio: cohenportfolio.com
St. Patrick’s Day: Napper Tandy
Napper is a copywriter at David & Goliath in Los Angeles, Saatchi before that. I wonder if he knows that James Napper Tandy (1740 – August 24, 1803) was a famous Irish rebel leader? Judging by the above photo, I’m guessing he does. Happy St. Patty’s Day.
Portfolio: Click here
Nick Gordon
Nick is a senior copywriter at Jupiter Drawing Room in Cape Town, Ogilvy and Saatchi before that. His site is MC’s first from South Africa and it’s awesome. It’s so interesting to see the humor and the vibe of South Africa in Nick’s work. Some of it, like the above print, could be right out of Europe or the States. But some of the other pieces, especially some of the TV, definitely has a different vibe.
Portfolio: craftthatcopy.blogspot.com
Greg Collins
Greg is a freelance copywriter/CD in Los Angeles, Team One before going solo. I’ve heard it said that going freelance kills your portfolio. If that’s true, then Greg is the exception. He’s been on his own for ten years and wow. His book is anything but killed.
Portfolio: gregcollinsworks.com
Justin Galvin
Justin is a senior writer at Tauntr, Arnold before that. My faves: gorgeous Pacifico vids, Billy Mays for ESPN 360, and an awesome idea for small bank Umpqua: sponsoring the smallest small biz of all, lemonade stands.
Portfolio: justingalvin.com
Gregg Nelson
Gregg is a senior copywriter at Arnold Boston, Mad Dogs and Englishmen before that. To me, his book is classic Arnold. Smart. Honest. Funny. Awesome.
Portfolio: gnlsn.com
Hayley Marks
Hayley is a copywriter at Agency Republic in London. Her work for Secret Diary of a Call Girl is amazing, especially radio (One Show silver). She also got to work with the Muppets. DING. Winner! So jealous.
Portfolio: hayleymarks.carbonmade.com
Matthew Weiner
Matthew is an interactive copywriter at Publicis in Seattle. Not to be missed: HotelHellVacation.com (especially the game) and Matthew’s stand-up. Now that, my friends, is bravery. Tip o’ the Hat, Ween.
Portfolio: bigween.com
Tim Blevins
Tim is a senior copywriter at Carmichael Lynch, Colle+McVoy before that. His site is on Behance.net, which you should check out if you haven’t. (Think Facebook, but for creative portfolios.) His stuff rocks. YearbookYourself.com, PaintThatShitGold.com, Winnebago … it’s all good. NOTE: Also worth checking out but not yet up on Tim’s site are MillionBabyCrawl.com and LivingSasquatch.com.
Portfolio: behance.net/TimBlevins
Matt MacDonald
Matt is a copywriter/CD at JWT NY, Bates before that. His bio reads that his “career goal is to make advertising people don’t hate.” Well, he’s done a hell of a lot better than that. Snake a bottle of the good stuff out of your agency’s client stash, shake it up dry, and sneak off somewhere you can be alone for 15 minutes. This is a great one.
Portfolio: mattmacdonald.net
Miami Ad School Week: CW Grads
Anthony Ciolino - anthonyciolino.com
Becky Darling - beckydarling.com
Bipasha Mookherjee - bipandchris.com
Brad Soulas - bradsoulas.com
Branden Kramer - brandenkramer.com
Brandi Clinch - brandiclinch.com
Carlos Rangel - thecarlosrangel.com
Chase Domergue - chasedomergue.com
Chris Mead - cwmead.com
Courtney Koeneke - somethings-happening.com
David Gordon - heygordon.com
Eric Roller - ericroller.com
Jerrod Woods - copyjwds.com
Jessye Hand - greeneggsandhand.com
Katie Facada - katiefacada.carbonmade.com
Kevin Martin - kevinslightbulb.squarespace.com
Louis Laurent - bookoflouis.com
Mark Gaspar - markgaspar.com
Michael Mishu - michaelmishu.com
Nick Zacher - nickzacher.com
Miami Ad School Week: Courtney Koeneke
Courtney graduated from Miami Ad School in 2009 and lives in San Francisco. Check out her Long’s Horseradish site (One Show merit) and messy Revlon Colorstay campaign. FUNNY: Courtney went to the U of Wisconsin before MAS. On her site, she has a little photography section. The first photo? Cheese.
Portfolio: somethings-happening.com
Miami Ad School Week: David Gordon
David graduated from Miami Ad School in 2009 and is now a copywriter at Razorfish in San Francisco. Lots of good stuff on his site. The third campaign, for Jolt Energy Gum, is hilarious.
Portfolio: heygordon.com
Miami Ad School Week: Louis Laurent
Louis graduated from Miami Ad School in 2009 and is now an interactive copywriter at Tribal DDB Dallas. Before MAS, he got a degree in creative writing from Iowa. During and after MAS, he interned at Fallon, Lowe, CP+B, and Energy BBDO (two months each). NICE.
Portfolio: bookoflouis.com
