ACD/CW Wanted: Hub Strategy & Communication

Posted on 03/13/2015 by siciliano

Fabulous San Francisco agency (and good friends of MC) Hub Strategy & Communication is on the hunt for an ACD/writer (open to a senior writer, too). You want this job. From Hub: “We are looking for an ACD/Writer. The slash is in there because we need you to be an amazing creative director and an amazing writer — we can tell the difference.

We work on fun projects with fun clients and fun people. We need you to be one of those people. We also need you to be a person who takes their craft very seriously and is able to bring smart, thoughtful, strategic, and many times funny words to the page. You will be working with the other creative directors at Hub to bring ideas to life. You will be managing a team of talented creatives. You need to be nice to clients, because you will be all up in client meetings. You need to be organized because you’ll be busy. You need to like sandwiches.

If you check out our site (hubsanfrancisco.com), you’ll see that we pride ourselves on our writing and if you see work that feels like the kind of work you want to be doing, give us a shout.”

Send your link to: peter@hubsanfrancisco.com

Justin Ebert

Posted on 03/09/2015 by siciliano

Justin is a copywriter/CD in NYC. Since his last post on MC (07.27.12), he’s gone full-time freelance, put together a new Cargo site, and added a bunch of new work—including the above for Capri Sun. So many killer projects all over his site. Really happy to have Justin back up on MC. Really awesome way to kick off the week.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/justinebert

Edward Ong

Posted on 03/04/2015 by siciliano

Edward is a writer/CD in Malaysia. (Two CWs from Malaysia in one week. Dig it.) There are a ton of projects in his portfolio and a huge variety—from Penguin Books to BMW, Tiger Beer to posters for his agency’s Star Wars-themed Christmas party. Projects are divided into two categories: Copy and Everything Else. With so much content, that makes it easier to concentrate on just the writing, if that’s what you’re into. Which, being MC, we are.

Portfolio: edwardong.solutions

Jeremy Ng

Posted on 03/02/2015 by siciliano

Jeremy is a senior copywriter at NagaDDB in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Love international submissions. More, please!) He started life as a graphic designer, then switched to writing at his first agency. Check out his project for Yoshinkan Aikido, which uses pieces of bad guy faced-cake to promote self-defense classes for Malaysian women. Delish.

Portfolio: behance.net/jeremyngkt

Matt McCain

Posted on 02/25/2015 by siciliano

Matt is a copywriter/CD in Seattle. After 15 years at WongDoody, his portfolio is stocked with all kinds of killer projects for Amazon (above), Seattle Seahawks, Subway, Horizon Air, Tobacco Quit Line, and the LA Dodgers. Dying to know what it was like working with the one and only Gary Busey. Crazzeee.

Portfolio: mattmccain.com

UPDATE: Vlad Ivangorodsky

Posted on 02/23/2015 by siciliano

Since his last post on MC, New York art director/creative director Vlad Ivangorodsky has gone full-time freelance and has added a bunch of new work to his site, including the above GoDaddy spot for Barton F. Graf 9000 (that almost made the Super Bowl). Always love posting Vlad’s site up on MC, even though he’s not officially a copywriter. Good ideas are good ideas are good ideas.

Portfolio: vladislav-ivangorodsky.com

Intern Team Wanted: R/GA, Austin

Posted on 02/20/2015 by siciliano

Chris Cima, Creative Director at R/GA in Austin, is looking for an intern creative team. From Chris: “R/GA Austin is on the hunt for an intern creative team. We’re looking for both a writer and designer/art director. We’re willing to build a team from two solo badasses or if we find a pre-built team that has a great book, even better. The plan is to make this team an active part of our creative department and get them on real projects to see what they can do with enough guidance to keep their heads from exploding.” Love it. To learn more and to apply, click the links below.

Copy: Click here

Visual: Click here

Lyndsey Tonyan

Posted on 02/18/2015 by siciliano

Way back in January 2014, MC featured Lyndsey’s portfolio in a list of Chicago Portfolio School grads. Here we are, one year later, and Lyndsey’s friend and fellow CW Audrey Hansen has re-submitted her portfolio to MC for an update. (Big ups, Audrey. Love that.) Six tight campaigns and some beautiful typography in her portfolio, including one for the Department of Health and DARE, above, that MC would be all over if it existed. Fun.

Portfolio: lyndseytonyan.com

UPDATE: Chris Hancock

Posted on 02/16/2015 by siciliano

Been about a year since Chris’s last update on MC. Since then, he’s moved back to San Francisco and freelanced for Pereira O’dell, Camp+King, Muhtayzik Hoffer, Mekanism, and others. (Um, nice list there, geez.) So much great writing all over his site. This is a fun one.

Portfolio: chrishancockwriter.com

Kevin Zengel

Posted on 02/11/2015 by siciliano

Kevin is a copywriter at Disney’s Yellow Shoes Creative Group in Orlando, Florida. Lots of magical work all over his site (sorry, had to), including awesome animated gifs for Star Wars Weekends at Walt Disney World Resort (above, be sure to read the captions). Also, don’t miss his site for agency RSQ, “Helping you sell shit since 1977.” Nice.

Portfolio: portfolio.iamzengel.com

Kerry Skiles

Posted on 02/09/2015 by siciliano

Kerry is a copywriter/CD in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. She’s also a good friend/former agency comrade of MC, from all the way back when Arnold had a San Francisco shop. (Was it really that long ago?) So happy to have her posted up, at last. Dig it.

Portfolio: kerryskiles.com

Tim Gillingham

Posted on 02/04/2015 by siciliano

Tim is a freelance copywriter/CD in Minneapolis. Over the past 20 years, he’s worked at shops like Fallon, Carmichael, Arnold, Burnett, and Saatchi (geez), on more awesome accounts than MC can list here. Don’t miss his classic campaigns for Citi Simplicity Card and the VW Beetle, including the above spot “Squares.” Brilliant.

Portfolio: timgillinghamcreative.com

CW Wanted: Sleek Machine, Boston

Posted on 02/02/2015 by siciliano

This is so cool. Tim Cawley, copywriter/CD featured on MC (back on 06.07.10), is now Co-founder/Chief Creative Officer of Sleek Machine in Boston—and he’s on the hunt for a copywriter. From Tim:

“Sleek Machine is a creatively-driven startup agency in Boston co-founded by Chief Creative Officer Tim Cawley (a formerly MC-featured writer whose portfolio blog you can see here: http://timcawley.blogspot.com.

Sleek Machine is looking for an entrepreneurial, optimistic, prolific, relentless, responsible, conceptually rock-solid copywriter. Someone with 3-8 years experience. Want someone who can generate exciting ideas, regardless of medium. Someone who sees opportunity in everything – from cushy, boondoggle-y TV production, to the no-budget social media post. You can get a sense of our venture here: sleekmachine.com.

National accounts in a range of categories. Fast-paced, productive, tight-knit environment. You will definitely produce book-worthy, real work for real brands.”

Please send a portfolio link to: inquiry@sleekmachine.com

UPDATE: Ann Titus

Posted on 01/28/2015 by siciliano

Ann is a freelance copywriter/ACD in Chicago, currently at Havas Worldwide on Citibank, after taking a year and a half off “to become a more insightful marketer to suburbanites and stay-at-home moms.” (Love that.) Since her last post on MC (04.06.12), she’s redesigned her site and added a bunch of new work. Time for an update!

Portfolio: anntitus.com

UPDATE: Ben Santoriello

Posted on 01/26/2015 by siciliano

Since his last post on MC (04.16.14), Ben has joined The Escape Pod in Chicago and added some new work to his book. So cool to see how his portfolio has evolved since his first post on MC (09.28.12), just after graduating from Creative Circus. Good times.

Portfolio: bensantoriello.com

Colby Spear

Posted on 01/23/2015 by siciliano

Colby is a new copywriter in NYC after graduating from Miami Ad School in December. (Big ups!) His site is rad. It’s a vertical scroll that takes you from Clean Cut Colby, to Saturn Rings Colby, to Steam Out Of Ears Colby, to Fully Bearded Colby—surrounded by his projects. Dig it.

Portfolio: colbyspear.com

Michelle Gilbert

Posted on 01/19/2015 by siciliano

Michelle is a freelance copywriter in Los Angeles. Killer work all over her site, including social media awesomeness for House of Cards Season 2 and BoJack Horseman, a campaign for PlayStation’s LittleBigPlanet 3, and stuff for Nike and Adidas. Dig it.

Portfolio: michellegilbertcreative.com

UPDATE: Brian Murray

Posted on 01/16/2015 by siciliano

Brian is a copywriter/ACD at Tierney in Philadelphia. Since his last post on MC (way back on 07.15.10), he’s got a new site, new URL, new work, the whole thing. Way past due for an update.

Portfolio: murraymfg.com

CWs Wanted: MMB Boston

Posted on 01/14/2015 by siciliano

Erica Puorro, Creative Services Manager at MMB, is on the hunt for Junior and Mid-level Copywriters to work on print, digital and TV. (Yes, please.) If you’re interested, email your link/portfolio to the address below. To check out MMB, click on their logo above.

Email portfolio/link to: creativeemployment@mmb580.com

UPDATE: Phil Calvit

Posted on 01/13/2015 by siciliano

Phil is a full-time freelance copywriter in Minneapolis. Since his last post on MC (03.10.14), he’s added new work to his site and some new shops to his already stupid experience list. From Phil: “There’s no getting around it: I’ve been writing ads and ad-like things for a really long goddamn time. Since 1986, I’ve created stuff for pretty much every conceivable industry, in pretty much every conceivable medium—at, I would contend, a pretty consistently high level. And to think that this kind of experience, and this level of wordsmithing, are available on a freelance basis to one and all…the mind reels.”

Portfolio: philcalvit.com

UPDATE: Mike Haftel

Posted on 01/09/2015 by siciliano

Since his last post on MC (way back on 06.21.11, just after graduating from Circus), Mike has a new site stacked with new work. He’s also running free, full-time freelance. Update!

Portfolio: mikehaftel.com

UPDATE: Craig Miller

Posted on 01/07/2015 by siciliano

Craig is a copywriter/CD in Boston. Since his last post on MC (05.30.14), he’s gone full-time freelance and is willing to travel. He’s also added some new work to his site, including Water Critic Arthur Tweedie for PUR (above). Time for an update!

Portfolio: craigmillercreative.com

Hey Freelancers

Posted on 01/04/2015 by siciliano

MC is gonna start 2015 with a new tag. We’re often asked, “Hey, I’m looking for a freelance copywriter in (city/area) who’s good at (kind of copywriting). Can you recommend someone?” MC isn’t in the business of recommending one freelancer over the other—but what we can do is add a “freelancer” tag to your post, so it’s easier for agencies and business to track you down. NOTE: The tag will be public, for all to see. If you’re down, hit up MC at the email below. Free as always, of course.

Email MC at: jason@moderncopywriter.com

UPDATE: André Toledo

Posted on 12/23/2014 by siciliano

André is a copywriter at LOLA Madrid. Since his last post on MC (06.22.13), he got a new Cargo site and a whole bunch of new work to show on it—including a super fun Christmas tree lights/music contraption for Kiss FM. Perfect for Christmas week!

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/andretoledo

Philip Laue

Posted on 12/22/2014 by siciliano

Philip is a copywriter at Red Square Gaming in Mobile, Alabama. Most of the work in his portfolio is for gaming: Cherokee Casino, Hard Rock, Oaklawn, etc., but he’s also got projects up for the University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas Tourism, and in his Print section: Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and Pediatrics Plus.

Portfolio: philiplaue.carbonmade.com

Drake Paul

Posted on 12/18/2014 by siciliano

Drake is a new copywriter in Chicago, just finishing up an internship at DDB. All kinds of interesting clients in his portfolio including AppleJacks, Deering Banjos and Kohler Music Showerheads. How has MC never heard of music showerheads—showerheads and speakers in one, like shampoo and conditioner in the same bottle? Hello, Santa Wish List.

Portfolio: drakepaul.com

Benji Shaw

Posted on 12/16/2014 by siciliano

Benji is a new copywriter in NYC, after just graduating from Miami Ad School in Brooklyn (big ups!). The first project on his site is a new product: Tostitos Twist-Up Queso Cup. Because everyone knows you don’t pour it in a bowl, you eat it out of the jar. Genius.

Portfolio: benjishaw.com

CW Wanted: Sukle, Denver

Posted on 12/12/2014 by siciliano

Michon Schmidt, Broadcast Producer at Sukle in Denver, is on the hunt for some CW help. (Nice ad above, dig it!) From Michon: “If you’re a writer with 7 or so years of agency experience, work that we’ve seen in some annuals and an interest in meeting these 2 art directors and producer send your book to hr@sukle.com and introduce yourself.”

Sukle’s site: sukle.com

Email your portfolio to: hr@sukle.com

UPDATE: Ramon Ariel

Posted on 12/11/2014 by siciliano

Ramon is a digital copywriter/creative at Catalyst PR/IMG in NYC. Since his last post on MC (11.22.13), he’s added new projects for Dick’s Sporting Goods and Timex, plus he has a new Cargo site. Update!

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/ramonariel

Sarah Dembowski

Posted on 12/09/2014 by siciliano

Sarah is a new copywriter after recently graduating from Chicago Portfolio School, and is now freelancing at DDB Chicago. This is what it’s like for the kids these days. Sarah’s got a campaign for Orville Redenbacher Ready-to-Eat Popcorn that’s all about how much easier it is than microwave popcorn. Wait, you mean we need something easier than microwave popcorn?! But. But. In her ad above, it’s equal to the difference between typewriters and computers. But I. I just. (Sigh)

Portfolio: sarahdembkowski.com

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