Branden graduated from Miami Ad School in 2008 and lives in Orange County. His portfolio is a blast. Army men for Nicorette, an awesome conceptual product idea for Nike+Wii, and Jaw-Jitsu for Colgate.
Portfolio: brandenkramer.com
Chris graduated from Miami Ad School in December 2009 and lives in San Francisco. He’s got a tight portfolio (seven campaigns) that includes a nice mix of everything: two headline campaigns, two visual campaigns and three interactive campaigns.
Portfolio: cwmead.com
Van is a copywriter/ACD at space150 in Minneapolis. He was on MC last year (12.09), but has a shiny new site, with interactive work from his first year at space150, that’s definitely worth a new post.
Portfolio: vanhorgen.com
Joel is a senior copywriter at Pereira & O’Dell in San Francisco, CP+B and AKQA before that. On his site, right under his name, are the words Integrated Creative. It’s no joke. Give yourself some time to go through this one. Almost every piece is an experience, and they’re all just sick.
Portfolio: joelakaplan.com
Kent is a freelance copywriter in New York City. He’s done a little of everything, including stand-up at The Laugh Factory, writing for Cartoon Network and Playboy TV’s Naked News, and being a page on Letterman. So, imagine Kent’s brain. Now, imagine Kent’s brain online. Yes, his blog site is a little nuts. Yes, it’s all a little raw. But still, I laughed. Out loud.
Portfolio: kentkoren.blogspot.com
Aryan is a freelance copywriter in L.A., David & Goliath and Saatchi before going solo. There’s a crazy variety of clients represented on her site: bowling, casino, cough suppressant, beer, Freddy Krueger at Universal Studios (above print ad is from that campaign). Looove the lorem ipsum home page.
Portfolio: aryanaminzadeh.com
Tim is a freelance copywriter in NYC after 3+ years at Chiat. He’s got work on his site for Snickers, Starburst, et cetera, that’s written wicked brainiac smart. (He actually got a reference to Jonas Salk onto a Snickers board. Yes, I’m jealous.) It’s so refreshing to see work that assumes consumers are smart enough to get it. Tip o’ the Hat.
Portfolio: timwassler.com
Ryan is a freelance copywriter in Los Angeles, Leo Burnett before that, Carmichael Lynch before that. His site is filled with great stuff from Carmichael – classic, awesome Minneapolis print – for Harley and Porsche. Love it.
Portfolio: ryaninda.com
Chris is a copywriter at Deutsch in LA. And yes, I’m a sucker for the agency self-promo.
Portfolio: christorrens.com
Van is a copywriter/ACD at space150 in Minneapolis, and before that design shop Little & Co, and before that design shop Carmichael Lynch Thorburn. You can tell Van knows exactly how to write for designers. His book is gorgeous.
Portfolio: behance.net/vhorgen
Ryan is an ACD at CP+B. If you’re not happy with your career, just skip going to his site. If you’re having a good day, a really good day, then I recommend going through it backward. Start with the rez. He broke into the biz as an intern at CP+B in 2004. Right. Then to to the awards page. Shit. Deep breath. Then to the work, which is really just a line-up of every other brilliant spot that’s come out of Crispin over the past five years. Including the Whopper Freakout campaign.
Portfolio: ryankutscher.com
Gilberto is a copywriter at AKQA in SF. Before that, he was at Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis, where he wrote four spots in the Jack’s Links “Messin’ With Sasquatch” campaign, with CD Brock Davis, of which I’m a huge fan. (Both of the campaign and Brock.) For four years into the biz, this is a killer portfolio.
Portfolio: gilbertomuinos.com
Dane is a copywriter at space150. Officially, that makes him an interactive copywriter. But he also makes cool stuff like this biz card mural for space150’s NYC office. (They change their identity every 150 days.) Genius.
Portfolio: daneroberts.com
Joel’s book is filled with absolutely fantastic print writing. Not that the rest of his stuff isn’t awesome,
but man. His print is just spectacular.
Portfolio: joelwstacy.blogspot.com