Chris just accepted a job as a Jr Copywriter at Chiat NY. (Yes!) Right out of school, just like that.
Portfolio: awisebeardedwriter.com
VCU Brandcenter Week: Chris Stephens
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
VCU Brandcenter Week: Nate Totten
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
VCU Brandcenter Week: Colin Quinn
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
VCU Brandcenter Week: Natalie Hammel
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
VCU Brandcenter Week: Dylan Meagher
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
Gary Bostwick
Gary is a copywriter in Cleveland. He has to be the first copywriter to graduate from a major university with a 3.98 GPA. (Copywriting, Gary? Really?) Be sure to check out his blog, Sucks To Be You.
Portfolio: tallskinnyguy.com
Andy Pearson
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 Rand
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 Lear
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 Hollrah
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
Marcin Markiewicz
Marcin is a freelance copywriter in Los Angeles, TBWA Chiat/Day and Euro RSCG before that. His portfolio is just sick. I wish I could have featured his Energizer print campaign above, because the writing is absolutely hilarious, but the type is too small for my blog. So, go check it out. And the Pedigree Adoption spots. And Tap Project. And … just go.
Portfolio: marcinmarkiewicz.com
Creative Circus Week: CW Grads
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
Creative Circus Week: Ben Bliss
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
Creative Circus Week: Mary Money
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?
Creative Circus Week: Nattavut Leekulpitak
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
Creative Circus Week: Michael Cambardella
Michael graduated from Creative Circus in 2009 and is currently living in Atlanta. Look out advertising, here comes Cambardella.
Portfolio: michaelcambardella.com
Creative Circus Week: Erin Collins
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
William Tran
William is a copywriter at Draftfcb in NYC. His wrap-around poster for the Global Coalition for Peace (above) is just awesome. Also dig his campaign for Oreo with Fudge. Yum.
Steffan Barry
Steffan is a copywriter at the doug agency in Toronto, Arnold and JWT before that, 10 years on the account side before that. Love how his site looks and works. Super clean and easy. Be sure to check out DOUG AGENCY in the ALT section (above). Hilarious.
Jason Carter
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 Kaplan
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.
Shane Hutton
Shane is a freelance copywriter/CD in Boston, previously at Modernista! and Arnold. This is an awesome portfolio. Print is full of just wicked writing and the TV … wow. He’s got 27 spots up there. Hummer, Bud, MTV, and one of my fave spots all-time, maybe even my all-time fave, “Milky Way” for the VW Cabrio.
Scott Bell
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 Black
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 Peters Ginsborg
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?
Shane Durrant
Shane is a copywriter in Johannesburg, where he wrote the above campaign for CNA at The Jupiter Drawing Room (One Show 2009). He’s also a taxidermist, celebrity impersonator, novelty snack inventor and dermatologist.