Big thanks to CPS grad Steve Stenholt for helping put together Chicago Portfolio School Week on MC. Steve’s off to Ogilvy NYC in a week after being named a finalist in the Big Ad Gig Competition, and landing a freelance contract. Sweet. Go get ’em, Mr. Stenholt.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/stevestenholt

Chicago Portfolio School Week – Ben Klassman

Posted on 10/12/2011 by Siciliano

Here’s a new one. How about a campaign for Toys-R-Us, targeting divorced/joint custody Dads, appealing to the fact that spoiling their kids might get them more face time? MC is still laughing.

Portfolio: benklassman.com

Chicago Portfolio School Week – Lisa Norris

Posted on 10/11/2011 by Siciliano

Check out Lisa’s campaign for Excedrin, celebrating famous holiday day-afters: May 6th, March 18th, July 5th. Great idea for a campaign. And the giant Wranglers billboard. And the Grain Belt reclining bar stool. Good stuff.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/lisanorris

Chicago Portfolio School Week – Jake Thompson

Posted on 10/10/2011 by Siciliano

Hello, Chicago Portfolio School Week! MC’s first, and we’re psyched. Kicking it off with The Book of Jake. Can’t tell you how many times MC has heard some version of this: “How come they don’t make copywriters who can write headlines anymore?” To which MC responds, check out Jake’s book. Ton of headlines in there, and more than a few are awesome.

Portfolio: bookofjake.com

Jason Corbin

Posted on 10/07/2011 by Siciliano

Jason is a senior copywriter at Intermark Group in Birmingham. Question: Where have paper towel gloves been all my life?

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/jasoncorbin

Scott Stripling

Posted on 09/23/2011 by Siciliano

Scott is a freelance copywriter/ACD in Winston-Salem. Check out his TV page. It rocks. Washington Mutual, Washington State Department of Health, and T-Mobile are MC faves. If you’re the father of a daughter, don’t miss T-mobile “Hard Questions.” Arrrg.

Portfolio: scottstripling.com

Isaac Silverglate

Posted on 09/19/2011 by Siciliano

Isaac is a copywriter/ACD at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, previously at Droga5 in NYC. His link was sent in by David Roth (thanks, man) and MC knows why. Because it’s ridiculous awesome. Every once in a while, you click through a CW’s portfolio site and think to yourself, “No way. No way did a client let them do that. No way did a client pay for that.” This is one of those. Start with Combos TV. “What your Mom would feed you if your Mom were a man.” No way.

Portfolio: isaacsilverglate.com

Bill Hollister

Posted on 09/14/2011 by Siciliano

Bill is a copywriter/CD in Portland. His portfolio is loaded with awesome campaigns (and a killer one-shot for VW), including some great pro-bono work, which MC loves. Don’t miss the Jack in the Box spot with Jack at his in-laws. Hilarious. So been there.

Portfolio: billhollister.net

Daniel Cady

Posted on 09/14/2011 by siciliano

Daniel is a copywriter at Hughes in St. Louis. He is approximately the one-zillionth CW who has confirmed that Texas is one of the best advertising creative schools in the country. Noted. Check out the new Texas tag on MC, and Texas category in the sidebar. Hook ’em, horns.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/danielcady

Daniel Cady

Posted on 09/12/2011 by Siciliano

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/danielcady

UPDATE – Justin Kramm

Posted on 09/09/2011 by siciliano

Justin is a copywriter/ACD at Publicis & Hal Riney in San Francisco. He just relaunched his site with a bunch of new work, and made it mobile-awesome. So now you can take Justin with you, wherever you go. How great is that? Great. NOTE: Commuters on 280 between 8:30 and 10am, don’t Justin and drive. Please. I’d hate for my blog to be the cause of my own demise. Thank you.

Portfolio: justinkramm.com

Anne Sanguinetti

Posted on 09/05/2011 by siciliano

Anne is a copywriter at Martin in Richmond. She’s also an Oregon grad (go Ducks!), plus her last name is Sanguinetti, which means that she’s probably going to be a huge star. You can see it already with her Walmart, Pedigree, Tap, and L.A. Times campaigns. Brilliant.

Portfolio: annesanguinetti.com

Matt Cohen

Posted on 08/31/2011 by siciliano

Matt is six months into his first copywriting gig, at Draftfcb Chicago. Check out the Q&A on his resumé page. Then check out the song he played for his Chicago Portfolio School graduation (in Just For Fun). Good stuff.

Portfolio: mattycohen.com

Rob Jamieson

Posted on 08/26/2011 by siciliano

Rob is a copywriter/CD on IBM at Ogilvy in NYC. His whole portfolio (minus one campaign) is IBM and it rocks. Some people worry about working too long on one brand. But if it’s an awesome brand, and you make awesome work, what’s better than that?

Portfolio: rob-jamieson.com

Ryan Falch

Posted on 08/24/2011 by siciliano

Ryan is an American copywriter in Shanghai. (Sounds like a movie to MC.) Midwestern guy studies at Brainco in Minnesota. Works at Mullen for a year. Ships off to China. Quickly becomes an award-winning Creative Group Head at Ogilvy & Mather Shanghai. In a world …

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/betweenthedials

Josh Paialii

Posted on 08/17/2011 by siciliano

Josh is a copywriter at Team One in Los Angeles. He’s got a bunch of cool Lexus work on his site, but be sure not to miss Northern Trust Open: PLAY for L.A. What a fun project. What a fun 18 days.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/joshpai

Christian Andresen

Posted on 08/12/2011 by siciliano

Christian is a sr copywriter in San Diego. (MC’s first San Diego site. Hello, SD!) Interesting to compare freelance and full-time CW sites. How do we balance “hello, I’m an artist” with “hello, I’m for hire”?

Portfolio: christianandresen.com

David Fredette

Posted on 08/10/2011 by siciliano

David is a senior copywriter at HUGE in NYC. His site navs horizontally, which for some reason makes everything in it seem more important. Why is that? He’s got a tight portfolio, which you can do when it’s this strong. Just enough to make ’em say, “We gotta call this guy.”

Portfolio: dfredette.com

James Kinney

Posted on 08/05/2011 by siciliano

James is a new copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather Chicago, after recently graduating from Chicago Portfolio School. MC loves to see what got who hired where. So, what did the honchos at O&M dig in Mr. Kinney’s book? We’re guessing his tagline/campaign for 9Lives, to start. “Live like it’s your 8th.” Yes.

Portfolio: jmkcreative.com

Nick Maciag

Posted on 08/03/2011 by siciliano

Nick is an American copywriter at Clemenger BBDO in Australia. Don’t misses: student Food Network iPad idea – sliding the iPad under a clear cutting board (want it), Nationwide Insurance vid, and on his About page, Nick’s music.

Portfolio: nickmaciag.com

Jeremy Chin

Posted on 08/01/2011 by siciliano

Jeremy is a West Coast freelance copywriter. He shares a site with NYC-based AD Marcio Kelmanson. Every once in a while, MC finds a site that just kicks our collective ass. This is one of those. The ideas are stellar. The writing is awesome. The art direction is beautiful.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/jeremarcio

Dan Lewis

Posted on 07/29/2011 by siciliano

Dan is a senior copywriter at Leo Burnett Chicago. If you ever want to know anything about Kellogg’s Raisin Bran Crunch, Dan is your guy. Check out his print campaign for Econo Lodge. One of the best things a writer can do for a brand is help it be honestly self-depricating. Nice.

Portfolio: danlewis-copywriter.com

Victoria Kalogerou

Posted on 07/25/2011 by siciliano

Victoria is a junior copywriter in Athens, Greece. In addition to her Cargo portfolio, she’s put together something she calls the The Walking Portfolio. You walk through her portfolio on Vimeo, Flickr, WordPress, Tumblr, and we’ll let you discover the rest for yourself. NOTE: After viewing a piece of her portfolio, look for a link to the next one below it. (Took MC a minute to figure out.) Cool idea.

Portfolio: vimeo.com/channels/walkingportfolio

Miami Ad School Week 2011 – CW Grads

Posted on 07/22/2011 by siciliano

Ladies and gentlemen, MC proudly presents the portfolio sites of summer quarter 2011 Miami Ad School copywriter grads (in alphabetical order):

Brian Alexander – brianalexander.me/portfolio

Max Arlestig – max-and-max.com

Will Binder – cargocollective.com/willbinder

Jason Lazar – cargocollective.com/jasonlazar

Nate Stroot – krop.com/nathanstroot

Erik Stinson – erikstinson.com

Chethna Suryakumar – chethna.com

(Photo by Andres Mencia)

Miami Ad School Week 2011 – Nathan Stroot

Posted on 07/21/2011 by siciliano

Upon graduating from MAS, Nate took a summer internship at Fallon in Minneapolis. That’s a good time of year to take an internship in Minneapolis. Check out URBAN PACMAN. Gets MC just a smidge excited about the idea of exercise. Just a smidge.

Portfolio: krop.com/nathanstroot

Miami Ad School Week 2011 – Will Binder

Posted on 07/20/2011 by siciliano

One of the things Miami Ad School does consistently awesome is help students create books that are exactly what the industry needs right now. Will’s site and the work in it are a great example of that. Digital, social, interactive, idea and consumer-centric. No surprise he’s already landed a gig at RGA.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/willbinder

Miami Ad School Week 2011 – Max Arlestig

Posted on 07/19/2011 by siciliano

Max shares his site with creative partner Max Gebhardt. Together, they are Max and Max, “an interactive / conceptual creative team, half swedish, half german.” Their site is beautiful. Love the screened back images with type on rollover. Tasty.

Portfolio: max-and-max.com

Miami Ad School Week 2011 – Brian Alexander

Posted on 07/18/2011 by siciliano

A big thanks to Brian Alexander for helping to organize Miami Ad School Week on MC. It’s awesome seeing what the kids bring to the biz every year, and a big part of that is MAS. Tip ‘o the Hat.

Portfolio: brianalexander.me/portfolio

Chris Yocum

Posted on 07/11/2011 by siciliano

Chris is a senior copywriter at FAME, and splits time between Minneapolis and Chicago. Don’t misses: FAME Liquor Lounge, Crowdsourcing My Condo (awesome) and Groupon (love it).

Portfolio: thechrisyocum.com

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