Brennen is a new copywriter and a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Creative program. Bunch of super smart campaigns in his book for Yoplait GoGurt (hilarious), Yahoo!, Aeropress (above), and others. Don’t miss his Grammarly project—which the Internet desperately needs.
Portfolio: brennencooke.com
Leonard is a copywriter at Sanders/Wingo in Austin. So many hilarious videos in his portfolio, including “Actually Doing Something” for Volunteer March (above). Almost painful it’s 2018 truthiness. Fun dialogue all over his site, which isn’t always the easiest to pull off in Adland. Dig it.
Portfolio: leonardrader.com
Osmond is a freelance graphic designer in Atlanta. His portfolio is a mix of identity, digital, branding, and photography (above, for the Verizon #FREESTYLE50 Challenge) for clients like Verizon, Oskaide, Eden Body Works, Eve Milan, and Ween. Can’t wait to see what he does next.
Portfolio: osmondcurtis.com
Corlin is a copywriter at RPA in Los Angeles and a graduate of The Book Shop. All kinds of cool projects for Honda on his site (as one might expect from RPA), including tons of social content. Also, don’t miss his Photographed By page. Dig it.
Portfolio: corlinstubbs.com
Blake is a copywriter at Saatchi in NYC. Since his last post on MC just about two years ago (03.21.16), after graduating from Creative Circus, he’s been busy. All kinds of killer projects for Tide on his site, including some of the best spots (if not the best) from the last Super Bowl, plus videos with Terry Bradshaw and Gronk. That’s a good first two years!
Portfolio: blakemorris16.com
Joy is a copywriter in Austin, previously at Sanders/Wingo. The first two pages on her site are for Stubbs Bar-B-Q Sauce and include a huge variety of projects, from an Alexa integration with the voice of Stubbs Bar-B-Q Sauce’s founder to the vintage vending machine (above). Delish.
Portfolio: joybarnett.com
Carsyn is an art director in Austin, previously at Sanders/Wingo. (Don’t miss her Illustration page—she’s a killer illustrator, too.) Her “Nothing Punny” campaign for the United Way of Omaha brings pun zingers “to life” in disgusting, fleshy san serif nastiness. So gross. But so good.
Portfolio: carsyntaylormke.com
Big ups to VCU Brandcenter Director of Student Affairs and Industry Outreach, Ashley Sommardahl, for once again helping MC host VCU Brandcenter Week. And big, big ups to all of the VCU grads who will be running the ad biz soon enough. Do great work. Be kind to each other. Make the world a better place.
You can check out the portfolios of the entire VCU Brandcenter 2018 class, including copywriters, art directors, creative brand management, experience design, and strategy, on the VCU Brandcenter site here. Can’t wait to see where they land!
Brianna is a new copywriter and a recent VCU grad. One of the great things about student campaigns is that you get to take an idea and run with it. And run and run and run and run with it. Who’s going to stop you? Nobody. In the case of Brianna’s “Pull This” campaign for Kraft String Cheese, she went from print to OOH to digital to in-store to vending machine to a String Cheese Festival in Pullman, WA, headlined by the String Cheese Incident. Because why the heck not.
Portfolio: briannagross.com
Allison is a new art director and a recent VCU grad. At the time of this post, she’s got six spec projects and two produced projects on her site (don’t be fooled just because the produced ones are last, they’re just as good as the spec). Dig her creepy eye “Get Impossibly Close” campaign for Bushnell, and her “Sick Burns Candles” product development idea (so mean), which both have just the right amount of edge. Also dig her Unite by Kotex App. How have they not made that yet?
Portfolio: allisonrinaldi.com
Lynn is a new art director and a recent VCU grad. She’s got so many different looks in her portfolio, but all of them have the coolest vibe: Venmo (above), Mütter Museum, Sector 9, That’s What She Said, Little Tikes, Wonder Bread, and Olympics. Also, don’t miss her magazine “Skinny Dipper” in Not Work. So cool.
Portfolio: lynnlnakamura.com
Mike is a new art director and recent VCU grad. The typography throughout his portfolio is subtle and beautiful (great use of white space), which makes the lines sing. Love seeing an AD start off his book with a campaign for Merriam-Webster. High-five, Mr. Lee.
Portfolio: bookofmikelee.com
Thea is a new copywriter and recent VCU grad. So many smart projects on her site, from Hi-Liter “choose what to remember” to Greyhound “Took me there” to Daily Warmups for Chicks (above). Genius.
Portfolio: thea-ryan.com
Allie is a new copywriter and graduate of VCU. All kinds of hilarity in her portfolio including her very “real” campaign for Boy Scouts (above). Don’t miss her completely inappropriate children’s book (ahem) “Are You My Daddy?” So wrong. So right.
Portfolio: alliercarr.com
Shevek is junior copywriter at McCann in NYC and a graduate of Creative Circus. All kinds of killer projects in his portfolio and lots of great writing throughout. At the top of his site’s homepage is the line, “Here’s the work, and here’s the pudding if you’re short on time and just want the proof.” Click “here’s the pudding” and you go to another page that breaks out his work into Headlines, Commercials, Case Studies, Integrated Campaigns. Click on Headlines and you’re greeted with (in addition to some great lines), “Currently at a 200:1 embarrassing-scribble to solid-line ratio, but every 1 feels so damn good.” Amen.
Portfolio: shevekanandan.com
Spencer is a copywriter in Portland, Oregon who recently graduated from Brainco’s online program. His portfolio is a mix of spec and produced work that is both national and so very Portland (in such a good way). Clients (real and spec) include The Washington Post, Tetra Cannabis, Liquid Plumbr, Lipton Tea, 12oz Prophet, and the Portland Trimet (above). Looking forward to seeing what Spencer adds next!
Portfolio: spencerwknowles.com
Nick is a freelance interactive art director/ACD in Los Angeles. So many fun projects on his site, including “What’s In Santa’s Beard” Scratch-Its for the Oregon Lottery, Burton’s Mountain Festival & US Snowboarding Open sponsored by MINI, Lexus projects for a VERY popular movie (pass: wakanda2018), and the NachoTron 3000 for Mission Foods (above). Nachos and long copy ads print ads—what’s more delicious than that? Nothing. Nothing is more delicious than that.
Portfolio: nickkamei.com
Greg is a senior copywriter at Ogilvy NY. Since his last post on MC (back on 08.04.14, when he was a jr copywriter at Merkley+Partners), he’s been busy. All kinds of awesome projects for IBM on his site, including IBM Mobile, IBM Cloud (above), IBM Watson, and IBM Marketing. Plus a couple of projects for Mercedes-Benz. Plus some killer photography. Dig it.
Portfolio: gkissler.com
Carter is a copywriter/director/CD at Sanders/Wingo in Austin. At the time of this post, he’s got 14 killer projects up on his site for clients like DirecTV, Bud Light, Burger King, State Farm, Intel, and AT&T (above). Don’t miss his Passion Projects page, which include a couple of unbelievable agency holiday cards. So true they’re terrifying.
Portfolio: carterpagel.com
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
Unnati is an art director at Leo Burnett in Mumbai, India, previously at Fuseideas in Boston, and a graduate of Miami Ad School. Her book is a mix of visual design, UX, product innovation, and digital goodness. It’s also a mix of produced work (like the gif above for Subway) and student work from her time at MAD, which is so cool to see. Dig it.
Portfolio: unnatimarda.work
Dominique is a senior copywriter at R/GA in Austin. Since her last post on MC back on 09.29.16, Dominique has made her awesome (and hilarious) site even more awesome (and hilarious). Don’t miss her musical featuring Drew Barrymore for Crocs, “Come As You Are.” Seriously, Crocs. Also, be sure to check out Nyan Cat Man on her Personal Projects page. So dumb. So genius!
Portfolio: dominiquecreates.com
Al is a freelance copywriter/CD in NYC, previously at Wieden + Kennedy in Amsterdam, NYC, and London, BBH before that. Holy smokes what a portfolio. There are so many amazing Nike projects on Al’s site, it’s almost a crime not to feature one of them. However, the above spot for Gap just killed MC when it came out, so it’s the one. But please, grab a beverage of your choice and a comfy chair, and take your time with Al’s site. It’s awesome.
Portfolio: alastairmerry.com
Brendan is a freelance copywriter/CD in Philadelphia, after more than a decade at 160over90. As the 8th employee at the shop (and their first full-time writer), he help grow 160over90 from small boutique agency to a national powerhouse—and his portfolio is full of killer projects to prove it: Nike, Philadelphia Eagles, Arnold Bread (above), Iron Hill Brewery, Mercedes-Benz Driving Academy, De’Longhi, and more. Dig it.
Portfolio: helloquinn.com
Nechama is a copywriter in NYC. All kinds of super smart ideas on her site including Unsick Day for America’s Health (above), Find Your Formula for Streeteasy, Before It’s Normal It’s Art for MoMA (MC’s daughter is getting those socks), and a genius idea that’s going to make 99% of copywriters seeing it think to themselves, “How did I not think of that???” Biters by Oral-B, pens that improve your oral hygiene while you chew ’em. Brilliant.
Portfolio: nmuchnik.com
Clancy is a freelance senior copywriter/ACD in NYC, previously at Nickelodeon. All kinds of fun work on her site for clients like Nickelodeon, Marshall’s, Milk, AT&T, Honey Nut Cheerios, Cover Girl, plus two adorable spots for Toyota (above). Good times.
Portfolio: clancyfink.com
Ashley Aagaard, VP/Talent Acquisition at Barkley in Kansas City, is on the hunt for copywriters. From Barkely:
Barkley is hiring writers. More than one.
Here’s the deal, we’ve got a talented art director who needs a writer-partner. To get this job you should have a few years’ experience and some smart work. You’ll be working on TV (yes, for real TV), social campaigns and other advertising things, so showing off your TV, social and other things in your book would help you land the position. In addition to coming up with great ideas, we also like our writers to be able to write clever headlines and sharp copy, so you’ll want some of that on your site too.
About Us:
A few things you should know before you join us.
We’re passionate people. Passionate about work. Passionate about life. We can’t help it. It’s just the way we are.
Maybe it’s because we’re independent and employee-owned. Maybe it’s because we hire outstanding people and then get out of their way.
Or maybe it’s because we believe in the power of a great idea, and that great ideas can come from anyone.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
If all of this sounds good please apply here:
https://jobs.lever.co/barkleyus/72575968-fec9-41dc-b3c3-f6faad0bbde9
and don’t forget to submit a link to your work….
Tim is a freelance art director/copywriter/CD-in-one based in Maryland. He’s got a new site showcasing years of work across just about every product category there is, from The Washington Post to the Library of Congress, Mercedes to the World War 1 Centennial Commission (above). Before advertising, he was a trucker who drove everything from Macks to Autocars, Internationals to Freightliners. MC has only driven a big truck once, a 26-foot Penske, got it stuck in a Wendy’s drive-thru in Nebraska. Tip o’ the hat, Tim.
Portfolio: timryancreative.com
Anna is a copywriter moving to Chicago in April, looking for her next thing. Since her last post on MC (09.24.16, after graduating from Creative Circus), she spent a year at New Honor Society in St. Louis before deciding to make the move. Her portfolio is a mix of produced and student work—which is so fun to see. Where’s she going to land? Stay tuned!
Portfolio: annacrane.co
Simon is a copywriter at KBS in NYC, previously at Momentum and SapientNitro. So many cool projects for BMW on his site, including The Ultimate Driver (competition to find the fastest driver in the US), Motorrad (awesome all-electric, self-balancing concept motorcycle), and The Road Home (above), two beautiful spots that say it all without saying a word.
Portfolio: simondolsten.com