Laura is a social media copywriter at RPA in Los Angeles. Bunch of awesome social work up on her site for Honda, including Honda Snack Attack (brilliant), Honda April Fools (hilarious), CRV Wedding (awww), and #hugfest (above). Dig it!
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/laurackelley
Sarah is a copywriter at Secret Weapon in Los Angeles. Since her last post on MC (11.29.12), she’s moved from Austin to L.A., joined Secret Weapon, moved her portfolio site to dunked, and added a whole bunch of hilarious Jack In The Box work. Update!
Portfolio: sarahweigl.dunked.com
Finishing up MC Updates Week with Howard Hill, a senior freelance copywriter in Los Angeles. Since his last post on MC (03.12.13), Howard’s added some new work to his site including a new brand campaign for LifeLock and some Sony Xperia digital work. Update time!
Portfolio: howardhillcreative.com
Daniel is a new copywriter in Chicago, freelancing at Y&R, after graduating from Chicago Portfolio School and interning at CP+B Los Angeles. His book is post-school/pre-FT gig, mostly spec, and all-Daniel, which MC loves to see. Good times.
Portfolio: danielsawtelle.com
Sandra is a copywriter/ACD at Fry Hammond Barr in Los Angeles. The first two clients in her portfolio are Nemours Children’s Hospital (cute kids) and the Orlando Science Center (scary spiders). Gulp. The third is First Watch Daytime Cafe, featuring a “You’ve Been Egg’d!” windshield coupon (above). Dig it.
Portfolio: krop.com/sandragerlt
Brian is a freelance senior copywriter in Los Angeles. Lots of web and print work on his Krop site, including several visual print campaigns for Yokohama tires. MC has received a bunch of emails lately asking the best way to find freelance writers based on location (including Los Angeles). All writers on MC are tagged with their location at the time of their post. So, all you have to do is scroll down the sidebar to the right until you reach LOCATION. Then find the city or country you’re looking for and click on it. Those writers will appear as their own page. That easy!
Portfolio: krop.com/largeidea
Adam is a San Francisco native at RPA in Los Angeles. Since his last post on MC (03.16.11), just after graduating from Miami Ad School in NYC, he’s done work for great shops all over the country and got a brand new portfolio to show for it. Including his 2013 holiday film for Honda, Santa’s New Sleigh. Santa drives a Honda!
Portfolio: gothelf.tv
Ricardo is a copywriter at LatinWorks in Santa Monica, just finishing up his first year there. He’s got a rad mix of produced, spec, conceptual, and just fun stuff on his site. He’s also a drummer, and there’s a link to some of his music as well. (Once again proving MC’s theory that drummers and comedians make great copywriters.) Well done, Mr. Duran.
Portfolio: ineedricardoduran.com
Aron is a copywriter/CD at Tom’s Shoes in Los Angeles. Since his last post on MC (11.08.10), Aron left DDB NY to join Tom’s as Creative Director and start their Creative Lab. Awesome. What’s double awesome is that he found the gig on MC. Might even be triple. Love it love it love it.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/aronfried
Theresa Larson, Recruiter at Garage Team Mazda in Orange County, CA, is looking for a copywriter. From Theresa: “Garage Team Mazda is on the hunt for a writer with 1 to 5 years of agency experience to round out our Brand Group in the creative department. Exceptional writers fresh out of ad schools are also welcome to apply. Mazda is a courageous car company with amazing cars and a great story to tell. We want you to help us tell it. You’ll have the opportunity to concept and develop projects in every sphere: digital, social, experiential and, of course, traditional media. Show us fresh creative thinking underpinned by smart and insightful strategies. Demonstrate your grasp of new media. Be humble yet confident. Mature yet fun. Relaxed yet productive. The agency is growing and the Mazda brand is on the uptick. This is a perfect time to join us, build a great body of work, and become an integral part of our growth and success.”
Send rez/link to: Theresa.Larson@GarageTeamMazda.com
Jeff is a copywriter in Los Angeles, formerly at The Escape Pod in Chicago. The first project on his site is very, very small: mobile micro-banners for Claussen Pickles. They’re as smart as they are tiny. Hooray, copywriting!
Portfolio: jeffkwiatek.com
Troy is a copywriter/ACD at mOcean in Los Angeles. He and his team make awesome campaigns for movies (Thor 2, Gravity, We Are The Millers, Star Trek Into Darkness, etc.) and TV (The Americans, Legit, The Bridge, Justified, etc.), and are helping to launch the new FX network, FXX. MC would like Troy’s job, please.
Portfolio: troyhutchinson.com
Teddy is a copywriter at 72andSunny in Los Angeles. Teddy didn’t go to ad school, 72 is his first CW gig, and he’s been there three years. What’s that portfolio look like? Awesome. All kinds of killer work for ESPN, K-Swiss and Carl’s Jr on his site. Love it.
Portfolio: teddymiller.com
Andrew is a freelance copywriter/CD based in Los Angeles, available globally (previous MC post 3.19.12). He’s all about cars. His entire portfolio is cars — and when you scroll through it, you quickly realize he’s worked on just about every car brand out there. He recently traded in his old site for a new 2013 model (tumblr), so time for an MC update.
Portfolio: andrewbaker77.tumblr.com
Jen is a copywriter at RPA in Los Angeles, soon relocating to NYC. She’s got a bunch of cool work for Honda on her site. But if you’ve spent any time listening to NPR (what writer hasn’t?), don’t miss her Faces of NPR project. Ira Glass looks just like Ira Glass!
Portfolio: jenwinstondotcom.com
Patrick is a new-ish copywriter in Los Angeles, after 10 years of performing sketch and improv comedy. (Again, says MC, comedians and drummers = the best copywriters.) There’s some hilarious stuff on his site, including a campaign for Ryan Airlines: “With prices this cheap, shut the f*ck up.” Nice. Don’t miss the video of 6-year-old Patrick called “All About Pat” at the bottom of the page Schedule a Kissing Consultation. MC was that kid, too.
Portfolio: patrickthedroll.com
Phil is a copywriter/creative director in Los Angeles. He’s done a ton of work for the film industry (awesome) — posters, trailers, sites, etc. He displays most of his work on tilt viewer, which has its pros and cons. Pros, you can click through it quickly. Cons, it’s hard for MC to snap a straight-up screen shot of a piece of work without a cursor smack in the middle of it. (Arrrg, tilt viewer!) Still, very cool to see a CW having fun with the movies in LaLa. Good times.
Portfolio: boldstandard.com
Charlie is a freelance copywriter/CD in Los Angeles. As a full-time freelancer, he’s added a couple of little extras to his site that are pretty key. Check out this Testimonials link. He’s got 10+ quotes, not too long, super easy to nav, that say a lot about him. His contact info (phone and email) are right up top, in a universal header. And his About Us page is no-nonsense, just the facts. A very clean, well-organized, hard-working site. Nice.
Portfolio: charlienoback.com
Trey is a senior copywriter at Fuse in Los Angeles. The first four projects on his site are for Kawasaki, and they include TV, print, interactive, and a manifesto vid. What’s more fun, as a copywriter, than writing a company’s manifesto vid? Especially when the company makes motorcycles? So fun.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/hova
Howard is a senior CW in Los Angeles. Since his last post on MC (03.28.11) he’s updated from Krop to Cargo and added some killer new work, including pieces for Sony’s Xperia Studio and Americans Elect. About the latter, from Howard: “We tried to use the internet to nominate a president. That one didn’t work out but it was worth a shot because someone’s going to do it eventually.”
Portfolio: howardhillcreative.com
Courtney is a new copywriter interning at RPA in Los Angeles. Her site is mostly Honda banners she’s produced while at RPA, plus her student work from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse (great school). Courtney’s looking for her first gig. Who’s looking for their Courtney?
Portfolio: courtney-davidson.com
Bowen is a copywriter/ACD at Energy BBDO in Chicago. All kinds of fun work on his site for big brands like General Mills, Jack-in-the-Box, Chase, Mercedes, and Expedia.com. Don’t miss his video for Skispace.com featuring Bode Miller. Good times.
Portfolio: bowenmendelson.com
Rob is a copywriter/CD at Skiver in Los Angeles. (His site was submitted by Matt McNelis, big ups.) The above outdoor board for San Diego was posted in Seattle. And around this time of year, MC guesses it probably worked like a charm. Ah, January.
Portfolio: robpettis.com
Dave is a copywriter in Los Angeles. The first item in his portfolio is Inspiration Trip: “In 2011, my wife and I left Los Angeles with a one-way ticket to Istanbul and traveled the world. We were gone for 264 nights and slept in 72 different beds.” (Beds above.) Dave’s back in L.A., currently freelancing at Mistress. MC’s #1 2013 resolution: some kind of Inspiration Trip. Even it’s 2 nights instead of 264.
Portfolio: dave-carlson.net
Chris will be graduating from Art Center College of Design this Saturday, December 15th. (His site was submitted by fellow student Brenton Covington—thanks, Brenton.) First, a huge congrats to Chris from MC on graduating. Love it. Second, it’s not often that Art Center College of Design graduates a copywriter, which makes his site even more interesting to check out. Again, love it.
Portfolio: chrisgilbertcreative.com
Andrew is a copywriter at Draftfcb in Orange County. Bunch of cool stuff for Red Bull on his site from his time at Kastner. Be sure to check out Red Bull Creation V.2.0.12, which made MC laugh and want to throw up at the same time. So fun.
Portfolio: krop.com/ciaccio
Théo Wallace is a copywriter in Los Angeles. His portfolio is an old school Blogspot called Fern Bar, named after 1970s bars frequented by hip ad peeps at the time (including Théo’s father who was at BBDO) that were filled with actual ferns. What’s better than ad land history? MC loves it.
Portfolio: fernbar.blogspot.com
Matt is a copywriter/Creative Executive at CAA in Los Angeles. He’s been busy since his last MC post about a year ago, including a stint on the writing team of Eastbound & Down Season 3, stemming from the ad work he did for the show. (Awesome.) Don’t miss his Fake Craigslist Ads, especially the last one, “I don’t like the baby we adopted (Beverly Hills)” and his subsequent visit from non-fake police detectives. Hilarious.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/mattheath
Agustin is a new CW grad from Art Center College of Design (today, actually—congrats, Agustin!). Don’t miss his “Heal The Bay – Ditch The Bag” campaign, which is heavily influenced by the recent popularity of literary erotica for women and movies about male strippers. Not kidding.
Portfolio: thebookofagustin.com
Johanna is a copywriter in Los Angeles. MC is a big fan of awesome illustration/animation, who isn’t? Lots of it on Johanna’s site. Check out: H.D. Buttercup, Papaya King, Hansaplast, The Cold Hearted Thief (cover), Until We Bleed (type), etc. Dig it.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/johannawidegren