Serena is a copywriter/CD at Strawberry Frog in NYC. Love how her portfolio is organized. Digital, Analog, Shiny Prizes, and Resume. Digital is broken out into Branding, Campaigns, Site Redesign, and Interactive Flare. Analog represents the first 10 years of her career on the traditional side, and is broken out into Print and TV. Put it all together, just awesome.
Portfolio: serenaconnelly.com
Jay is a copywriter/ECD at The Barbarian Group, formerly at R/GA. What a crazy cool variety of projects on his site. Pepsi’s Dear Mr. President, R/GA Little Red Books, The Verizon Beatbox Mixer … and not a single print campaign.
Portfolio: jayzasa.com
Michael is a freelance copywriter/CD in San Francisco. So, what do you do if you’ve been a SVP/GCD at McCann for awhile, and most everyone in town knows you’re awesome, and you’ve got a ton of work to show, but instead of showing it on your site you decide to make people laugh? Well, you do this:
Portfolio: michaelbettendorf.com
James is a copywriter at McCann in Birmingham, UK. He shares a site with art director Tim Jones. They’ve taught me a new word. “Hippo-Croc-A-Pig.” Had to Google it. It means … well, I’ll let you Google it for yourself. Love having the UK on MC.
Portfolio: timandjames.tumblr.com
Ricardo is a copywriter at AlmapBBDO in São Paulo. He shares a site with AD Gabriel Mattar. Do they get away with a little more than we do here in the States? Maybe. Maybe just a little more.
Portfolio: voicelessrooster.com
Sara graduated from VCU in 2004 and has been at Martin in Richmond ever since. So, if you graduated in 2004 but haven’t been at Martin ever since, you can check out Sara’s site and see what might have been yours. [Sigh] What might have been yours …
Portfolio: diamondinacornfield.blogspot.com
Chris is a copywriter/CD in NYC. What a killer portfolio. Don’t misses: All four Work Samples on the home page and, if you’re somehow the one and only person who hasn’t seen the Smirnoff Green Tea Partay vid, check that out. West Coast, baby.
Portfolio: chrismaiorino.com
Josh is a copywriter/CD in NYC, previously at DDB, Martin, W+K, TBWA Chiat, and GS&P. Once again proving MC’s theory that surfers make stellar copywriters.
Portfolio: joshgold.com
Andrew is a copywriter/ECD at NBC Universal, previously at CP+B, CAA, JWT, W+K, Leagas Delaney, and Fallon. I want this portfolio when I grow up. That’s all I have to say.
Portfolio: andrewault.com
Will is a senior copywriter at Razorfish in Portland. How much does MC love the Pacific Northwest? W+K, Razorfish, Publicis, Creature, Cole & Weber, WongDoody, Wexley School For Girls … awesome. Plus, U of Oregon (Ducks!). So much great advertising. And the best people anywhere.
Portfolio: Click here
Jenna is a copywriter/CD in San Francisco who’s done time at Riney, W+K Amsterdam and Fallon. Don’t miss her Travel Writing section. Russia, Morocco, Rwanda, Japan, Vietnam, Tibet, Chile … seriously.
Portfolio: jennahall.com
Scott is a copywriter/CD in Chicago, previously at CP+B, Cramer Krasselt, Chiat Day, GS&P, Leagas Delaney, and W+K. His site is divided into two halves: Writer and Creative Director. Both are just stellar.
Portfolio: rswild.com
Albert is a copywriter/CD previously at Fallon, Strawberry Frog, GS&P, and just holy crap wow. Uncork a bottle and lock the doors. His site is The Motherload.
Portfolio: albertkelly.com/thework
Brooks is a copywriter at GS&P in SF. He’s got a new site and some killer new work up on it. Last week, I wrote that Cargo is taking over the Creative Portfolio Universe and for good reason. Here, my friends, is this week’s evidence.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/brooksjackson
Brian is a copywriter/CEO/CCO of Barkley in Kansas City. Don’t misses: Sonic Drive-in, Vintage Spyder Replicas, Johnson County Library, Creativity Symposium, and Motion Graphics (cool).
Portfolio: brianbrooker.com
Jason is a copywriter at Tribal DDB in Dallas. He’s got a deep site, with lots of digital and some serious words in there, too. Check out Believer Magazine, MADD and Alien Training Camp.
Portfolio: jasonshipp.com
Clarence is a senior copywriter at Martin in Richmond. His Charmin Public Restroom Stall Wraps (above) make me so jealous. Why haven’t I thought of that? With all the time I’ve spent … uh, nevermind.
Portfolio: clarencebradley.tumblr.com
Mandy is a copywriter at Goodby in San Francisco. She shares a site with art director/husband Aaron Dietz. Their site broken out into channels: DietzTV, Work, Picmap, News, Haircuts (including the photo above), etc. The Work page is a series of non-active thumbnails, plus a link to an article about Mandy and Aaron. So interesting!
Portfolio: aarondietz.com
Jordan is a senior copywriter at TM in Dallas. On his site is a series of posters welcoming IT Specialists to a server convention in Las Vegas. No visuals. No budget. Just words and a drop of type design. That, my friends, is copywriting.
Portfolio: jordandontos.com
John is a copywriter/ACD at RPA in Los Angeles, David & Goliath and McKinney before that. What’s better than going through someone’s site, seeing work you’ve never seen before, and laughing out loud because it’s hilarious and awesome? Well. Okay. The Spinach & Shaved Parmesean Pizza at Tommaso’s in San Francisco is better. But not much.
Portfolio: johnguynn.com
Peter is a senior copywriter at GS&P, previously at Y&R and Mullen. Ton of great work in his book for a really awesome mix of clients, from Sprint to the Sopranos. His site is hosted on Cargo, which has taken over the Portfolio Site Universe over the past three months, and for good reason. Clean, easy to nav, and makes work look tay-ay-asty.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/petercarnevale
David is a copywriter/CD in Dallas who, as he puts it on his LinkedIn profile, has spent the past nine years acting as a “marriage counselor between traditional and digital advertising.” From what I’m hearing, that’s something a lot of agencies are looking for these days.
Portfolio: davidcoats.com
Jessica is a senior copywriter at The Martin Agency in Richmond (as of two months ago), GS&P before that. Her site is titled JessLikesToMakeStuff and is divided into two parts: For Work and For Play. But they could be For Play and For Play With Money, because her work is just wicked fun.
Portfolio: jesslikestomakestuff.com
Frank is a junior copywriter at Hill Holiday in Boston. So cool to see what a writer can do at an awesome shop in a year and a half.
Portfolio: frankcartagena.com
Kon is a copywriter/planner/CD, previously head of copy at a crypto exchange (that went boom), and before that 18+ years at W+T, Lowe, Ogilvy, and TBWA and affiliates. He now freelances between Thailand and South Africa. So much to discover on his site. Awesome Thai director (Thanonchai Sornsrivichai), great Thai agency (Jeh United), and a bar called Ronnie’s World Famous Sex Shop For Ice Cold Beer.
Portfolio: konhouse.com
Jenny is a copywriter at McKinney in Raleigh-Durham. Lots of cool stuff on her site for Virgin Mobile, Sherwin-Williams and Travelocity. Check out “Chatroulette.” Can you imagine what that poor Gnome saw? Don’t even want to think about it.
Portfolio: jennysayshi.com
Andrew is an interactive copywriter at CP+B, previously at AKQA. Don’t miss: The Lost Ring case study. Amazing project. Amazing sponsorship. Just wow.
Portfolio: andrewmcmurchie.com
Nancy is a copywriter/GCD at MacLaren McCann in Toronto. Check out this portfolio client list: Coke, Lotto, Chevrolet, Tylenol, Bell, Great Wolf Lodge, GM, Dentyne, Cheerios, and Nike.
Portfolio: napkinscribbler.com
Casey is a copywriter at Publicis in Seattle. He’s got a new Cargo site and a bunch of new work on it, including the now world famous Erotic Bakery Boner Cupcake campaign thing social media grosstrosity. How can you not laugh? You just can’t. Not laugh.
Portfolio: caseybrewer.com
Chris is a copywriter in Los Angeles, currently at Chiat. Some hilarious TV on his site. Don’t miss the IKEA spot (top row, third from left) and the Jack In The Box spot (third row, third from left). Also, check out “Chairs” (top nav, far right). I want one.
Portfolio: chrispouy.com