Bari Khan

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Bari is a copywriter at DigitasLbi in San Francisco. His site is loaded with gaming projects for titles like Shadows of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, Until Dawn, and Horizon: Hero Dawn – The Watchers. For the latter, Bari’s team brought the game to life by literally bringing Watchers to life at E3 (above). Fingers crossed he gets to borrow it for Halloween.

Portfolio: bariakhan.com

Hampus Elfström

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Hampus is a junior copywriter at Uncle Grey in Copenhagen, Denmark, after graduating from Miami Ad School and interning at agencies in San Francisco and NYC. All kinds of super cool ideas on his site, including The Book By Strangers (so smart), Dumb Laws Of America (so dumb), and Girl Scouts “The Original Hustlers” (above). Dig it.

Portfolio: hampuselfstrom.com

Copywriter Wanted: EnviroMedia, Austin, TX

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EnviroMedia in Austin, Texas, is on the hunt for a mid-level copywriter. A little on EnviroMedia from their site: “EnviroMedia is committed to a future where good is expected. Where credibility matters more than credit, betterment more than better. We provide solutions for the world’s most innovative agents of change — by asking questions and finding answers, following some rules and creating others, and making better happen.”

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Art Directors and other Creative Team members to develop concepts and execute campaigns
  • Steward brand development
  • Create engaging/compelling content for print, mobile, web, TV, and social media
  • Work independently and proactively in a fast-paced environment
  • Manage and prioritize multiple tasks effectively to meet goals and deadlines
  • Edit and proof to ensure quality control

Required Skills and Abilities

  • 5 years of experience in an Agency or a related environment
  • Exceptional creative portfolio
  • Experience working on integrated campaigns across all media platforms
  • A dynamic presenter who can clearly articulate and present creative ideas in a compelling and persuasive manner to clients and colleagues

Benefits

We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive salary and, for full-time employees, an extensive benefits package that provides medical, dental, and vision. EnviroMedia benefits also include STD, LTD, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and future growth opportunities within the company. Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees. EnviroMedia’s a place where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative atmosphere where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning, and culture.

How to Apply

Submit your resume and cover letter to: careers@enviromedia.com

Please list “Copywriter” in the title line of your email.

EnviroMedia is an equal opportunity employer.

University of Texas at Austin Week

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Big ups to Katie Samuelson and the one and only Chad Rea, amazing Austin writer/CD (and good friend to MC), who helped MC put together University of Texas at Austin Week. So many amazing creatives get their start at UT, one of the few traditional universities with a legit advertising program (along with VCU and Oregon). Can’t wait to see where this year’s grads land!

 

Copywriters

Brennen Cooke: brennencooke.com

Carolyn Hinojosa: carlynhinojosa.myportfolio.com

Charlotte Lichtenheld: charlottelichtenheld.com/work

Joy Kim: joykim.work

Kaie Samuelson: katiesamuelsen.com

Lexi Acevedo: alexisacevedo.squarespace.com

Marisa Valente: marisavalente.com

 

Art Directors

Angela Dai: angeladai.com

Bolero Munkhbold: boloramunkhbold.com

Chelsea Tijerina: chelseasheadspace.com

Drew Butler: drewbcreative.com

Jake Leber: jakeleber.myportfolio.com

Madeline Cuba: madelinecuba.com

Madii Poirot: madelinepoirot.com

 

University of Texas at Austin Week: Charlotte Lichtenheld

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Charlotte is a new copywriter and a recent grad of the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Creative program. The first two campaigns in her portfolio (at the time of this post) are exactly what you want from a student book: a stupid simple strategic hook and outrageous execution. “Families That Murder Together, Stay Together” for Clue, and “Premium Nip for Premium Pets” for Yeowww! Catnip. Ridiculous.

Portfolio: charlottelichtenheld.com

University of Texas at Austin Week: Angela Dai

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Angela is a new art director and a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Creative program. Sometimes you click through a portfolio and you can just tell—this person had so much fun making this creative. Amazing energy in all of Angela’s work. Be sure to check out her Illustration and Future pages. Awesome.

Portfolio: angeladai.com

University of Texas at Austin Week: Chelsea Tijerina

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Chelsea is a new art director/designer and a recent grad of the University of Texas at Austin Texas Creative program. Her site’s URL is “Chelsea’s Headspace” and that’s exactly what you get—to see in her head, with brilliant campaign ideas for brands like A Pea In The Pod, BBC, Arizona Tourism, Rosetta Stone, and Twitch, in addition to other pages (click “Art”) of super smart design, sketches & illustration, and 3-D design. Love it.

Portfolio: chelseasheadspace.com

Blake Morris

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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

VCU Brandcenter Week – Class of 2018

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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!

VCU Brandcenter Week – Brianna Gross

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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

VCU Brandcenter Week – Allison Rinaldi

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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

Shevek Anandan

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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 Knowles

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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

Greg Kissler

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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