Jack is a copywriter moving to Amsterdam in late July, and he’s on the hunt for a new gig there. His portfolio is loaded with retail projects from his time at Big Red in Australia. Don’t miss his “People’s Class” campaign for JetStar, Australia’s #1 low-cost carrier. Super fun.
Portfolio: jackemerycreative.com
Since his first post on MC (04.11.14) right after graduating from Miami Ad School NYC (and University of Oregon before that, go Ducks!), Josh has worked with R/GA, Barker DZP, and RICG. He’s also got a whole new site with projects for SlimFast, IDB Bank, Alcoholics Anonymous, Miele, Mercedes-Benz, and others. Time for an update.
Portfolio: jgocreative.com
Copywriter Austin Campbell (USA) and Art Director Axel Spendlingwimmer (Austria) have joined forces after graduating from Miami Ad School Hamburg to form Team Arnie. As in, Schwarzenegger. They’re currently looking for their first gig in Germany, London, Paris, or Amsterdam. Turn on your volume before visiting their site (above). It’s ridiculous.
Portfolio: teamarnie.com
Mitchell is a surfer/director/new copywriter in Los Angeles. He’s got a super cool/interesting portfolio of spec and produced work for Taster’s Choice (above), Diamond Matches, Carhartt, Critic’s Choice, and the city of Los Angeles. Good times.
Portfolio: mitchellquesada.com
Dani is a freelance copywriter in Seattle, previously at Hornall Anderson Design Works. She’s got a cool variety of projects in her portfolio, including packaging for Lay’s Wavy Potato Chips, Emerald & Spruce Ice Cream, and Stark Raving Pizza (above). So hungry now.
Portfolio: danibellcreative.com
Keith is a freelance copywriter/ACD in NYC. He’s got a crazy mix of projects in his portfolio, including the above National Geographic-inspired video for DSW. Which is exactly how MC feel shopping for kicks there. (Nailed it.) He’s also included a page for his Quarter-Career Gap Year, which is just a brilliant idea for all writers. Love it.
Portfolio: keithjsaunders.com
Mark is a writer/ACD at Y&R Chicago. Since his last post on MC (way back on 10.25.10), he’s revamped his site and loaded it with all kinds of new projects: Tyson Anytizers (above, “I’m starrrving!”), Dunkin’ Donuts, Progressive, Ocean Spray, Volvo, and more. Way past time for an update. Way past time for MC to heat up some Boneless Chicken Wyngz. Not kidding.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/markhohenschau
Bowen is a copywriter/CD at Ogilvy in Chicago, soon to be freelance in San Francisco. Since his last post on MC (01.14.13), he’s completely revamped his site and added a ton of new work, including brilliant 15-second Instagram vids for the Hemingway Foundation (above). Love ’em.
Portfolio: bowenmendelson.com
Ladies and gentlemen, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of nine Chicago Portfolio School graduating copywriters (in alphabetical order):
Adam Bedol – adambedol.com
Amanda Burger – amandaburger.com
Vikram Chadda- adsofmyworld.com
Kelly Foreman – kellyforeman.com
Martha Murphy – martha-murphy.com
Jeff Polaschek – jeffpolaschek.com
Lyndsey Stormer – lyndseystormer.com
Kevin Tosi – cargocollective.com/
John Wrend – john-wrend.com
Lyndsey is funny. Don’t miss the video Lyndsey created about Lyndsey on her About/Contact page, and the stand-up bit on her Extra Goodies page. You need a great sense of humor to be a copywriter. Also got to be a little bit fearless.
Portfolio: lyndseystormer.com
After graduating from CPS, Kevin is now at HY Connect in Chicago and Adam will soon be at R/GA in New York. In addition to awesome student portfolios, while at CPS they also created Darn Good Baloney, a podcast of interviews with ad industry titans like Jeff Goodby, Susan Credle, Matt Moore, Ross Fletcher, and … others of great import and huge influence. Dig it.
Adam’s portfolio: adambedol.com
Kevin’s portfolio: cargocollective.com/kevintosi
Martha graduated from CPS and is now interning at WONGDOODY in Los Angeles. What else has she done? Check out her About Me page for 9 truths and 1 boldfaced lie. She’s a new copywriter who’s already had some good adventures. And good adventures make good stories. And good stories are what being a writer is all about.
Portfolio: martha-murphy.com
Chicago Portfolio School Week on MC kicks off with Amanda Burger, who’s going to be freelancing at Leo Burnett in Chicago after graduation. (Huge congrats!) Also, huge thanks to Amanda who helped MC put together CPS Week on MC 2015 by gathering everyone’s links, getting the a-ok to post, and sending them all in. Love it.
Portfolio: amandaburger.com
Ladies and gentlemen, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of 13 2015 University of Texas at Austin graduating copywriters (in alphabetical order):
Mary Adams Bode – maryadamsbode.com
Warner Boin – warnerboin.com
Hayden Butler – haydenroybutler.com
Allison Burzlaff – allisonburzlaff.com
Jason Cahill – jxlc.co
Rachel Dawer – racheldawer.com
Colleen Hoofard – colleenhoofard.com
Lauren Lakin – laurenlakin.com
Cynthia Osborn – cargocollective.com/
Kait Pennybacker – kaitpennybacker.com
Lacey Rouse – laceyrouse.com
Hannah Sanderson – hannahsanderson.com
Lulu Wimberly – luluwimberly.com
Lots of smart work in Hannah’s portfolio, including projects for Swingline Paper Shredders (above), Dramamine Kids, Lumen, Fix-A-Flat, and Merry Maids. Who hasn’t needed an anonymous Merry Maids postcard for a friend with an especially disgusting bathroom? The world needs this campaign.
Portfolio: hannahsanderson.com
Campaigns for pest control aren’t uncommon in student portfolios, but to MC’s knowledge Hayden’s for Combat is the first to feature a full newspaper obituary page of roaches. So fun to write, geez. He’s also got cool projects for Monoprice, Jambox, Happy Socks, and Black Rock Charters. Good stuff.
Portfolio: haydenroybutler.com
So much funniness in Lulu’s portfolio. Don’t miss her guinea pig campaign for Paul Mitchell The School (nice Photoshop work), Winnebago (so retro), and Lucchese (so Texas). And hats off to the spinning toilet landing page. Genius.
Portfolio: luluwimberly.com
Texas at Austin Week on MC kicks off with Rachel Dawer, who was kind enough to coordinate with MC and help make this week happen. (No surprise she made Dean’s List!) Don’t miss her campaign for SportClips (above), which is the most perfect campaign for SportsClips ever. Dig it.
Portfolio: racheldawer.com
Rick is a freelance writer/CD in Miami. Since his last post on MC five years ago (03.19.10, how has it been that long?), he’s been very, very busy. M&M’s, Coke, Jet Blue, AT&T, Macy’s, Smirnoff, Acura, etc., for agencies like Crispin, RPA, Sapient, JWT, and BBDO. This is a good one.
Portfolio: rickabb.com
Matt is a freelance writer/CD in Los Angeles. His site features 18 projects covering a huge range of media—with nice tight strategic setups that get you into the how and why of each in just a sentence or two. Been in the biz a few years and still kicking ass? Got a lot to show? This is how we do it.
Portfolio: mattdbogen.com
Ben is a recent Ph.D grad in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin, and will be starting at The Richards Group in June. (Big congrats!) MC could be wrong, but is this the first Doctor of Advertising on the site? More importantly, what does he do if someone yells “Is there a doctor in the house?” Um. Technically, yes. But unless you’re metaphorically choking on a 15-second Hulu pre-roll video … which happens ALL THE TIME … then um …
Portfolio: benwyeth.com
Reid is a senior copywriter moving to NYC from Minneapolis in June. (Congrats!) Leave it to someone from Minnesota to come up with the idea of asking a guy to live in a snow globe as the agency holiday stunt (above, for McKinney). Too perfect.
Portfolio: reidhultman.com
For everyone not able to attend VCU’s recruiter sessions this week, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of 24 VCU Brandcenter copywriters graduating May 9th, 2015 (in alphabetical order):
Sue Attalah – sueattalah.com
Richard Beahm – richardbeahm.com
Curt Chapkowski – curtchapkowski.com
Andrew Couch – johnandrewcouch.com
Elizabeth Daniel – elizabethdaniel.info
Emma Dou – emmadou.com
Patrick Farrell – patrickbfarrell.com
James Feess – jamesfeess.com
Nick Gelbard – nickgelbard.com
Patrick Girts – patrickgirts.com
Joe Hartley – joehartley.pizza
Andy Holdeman – andymightsave.us
Sarah Johnston – sarahejohnston.com
Melanie Matlock – melaniematlock.com
Conor McCann – conordrummmccann.com
Mike McGuire – michaelkmcguire.com
Alison Murphy – amurph.com
Ryan Niland – ryanniland.com
Dorado Quick – doradoquickwrites.com
Nick Roberston – bnrobertson.com
Neeruj Sethi – neerujsethi.com
Ryan Snyder – rysny.com
Jesse Stanton – jessestanton.com
Madeleine Trebenski – madeleinetrebenski.com
What’s better than clicking through a portfolio and laughing out loud? Above is a photo of Patrick that, according to his About Girts page, he hates. (Now immortalized on MC, you’re welcome!) Loving all of the VCU portfolio site About Us pages, BTW. Good stuff. Also, don’t miss Patrick’s campaign for Black Flag Bug Zappers (“The last thing that went through his head … was one of his legs.”). And his Character Demo Reel in Voice Work. Awesome.
Portfolio: patrickgirts.com
One of the great things about clicking through VCU student books is that you never know what you’re gonna find. Joe’s got under-label fold-out stories for Hellmann’s (above), taxi tops for Greyhound, funky video for Airwick, and the Patbenetaur—you’ll just have to find that one for yourself. Can’t wait to see where Joe lands after graduation.
Portfolio: joehartley.pizza
No two copywriters become copywriters the same way. Check out Emma’s “Life Highlights” page and you’ll learn that she started in Nanjing, China, moved to Vancouver, Canada, undergrad at University of British Columbia, summer dishwasher in Osaka, Japan, then three novels, The Great Wall, Popeye’s Chicken, Empire State Building, VCU Brandcenter, and here we are today. Ta-da!
Portfolio: emmadou.com
VCU Brandcenter Week 2015 kicks off with Maddy Trebenski. The awesome thing about student portfolios is that they’re, well, student portfolios. You can do anything, for any client. Maddy’s got stop-motion videos for Tim Hortons, a game for Twirl-A-Squirrel (OMG buying one immediately), packaging for Happy Socks, creepy ear love for Sennheiser, and other weird stuff including a seance with a Pretty Pony from Dollar Tree (above). As it should be.
Portfolio: madeleinetrebenski.com
Jeff is a senior writer/ACD at Cossette Chicago. Since his last post on MC (01.30.14), he moved from Jacobson Rost to Cossette, made a new site, and added new work—including a bunch for McDonald’s. MC wonders: How do copywriters who work on McDonald’s avoid eating McDonald’s all the time? Or is that just MC? Arrrg.
Portfolio: jeffoswaldwriter.com
Rich is a copywriter/ACD at Downtown Partners Chicago. Since his last post on MC five years ago (04.03.10, has it really been that long?), Rich has spent time at Cramer-Krasselt as the lead writer on Porsche—I really hope that means he got to drive one for free—and then moved to Downtown Partners. And took his Cayman with him??
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/brightblack
Ana is a bilingual copywriter at mcgarrybowen in Chicago. Don’t miss the very last project on her site titled: “If you want to know about me, chat now with my ex-boss from the previous agency. He’s a bold guy.” MC tried it. Is that cat really responding? Think so!
Portfolio: anakarinadasilva.com