Mike is a copywriter/VP/ACD at The Martin Agency in Richmond, CP+B and WestWayne (under Luke Sullivan) before that. His site is a straight-up, old school Blogger blog with zero extra fanciness. That’s what you can do when you have a portfolio like Mike’s portfolio. Which, if you haven’t guessed, is just absolutely, completely awesome.
Portfolio: mikelearportfolio.blogspot.com
Amy is a copywriter/ACD at Hoffman York in Chicago after doing time at Leo Burnett, Cramer-Krasselt and Arnold. She wrote a spot for the Broan Ultra Silent Fan that I’ve seen about a zillion times (yes, I watch HGTV), and there’s a moment at the end that cracks me up. In the version on her site, they let that moment play out. Fun.
Portfolio: writesomethingnow.carbonmade.com
Marcin is a freelance copywriter in Los Angeles, TBWA Chiat/Day and Euro RSCG before that. His portfolio is just sick. I wish I could have featured his Energizer print campaign above, because the writing is absolutely hilarious, but the type is too small for my blog. So, go check it out. And the Pedigree Adoption spots. And Tap Project. And … just go.
Portfolio: marcinmarkiewicz.com
Adam Jackson – adamjacksontheperson.com
Ashley Cagle – ashleycagle.com
Ben Bliss – benblissed.com
Brent Weldon – brentweldon.com
Caroline Smith – carolinesmith.me
Chrissy Deem – cmdportfolio.com
David Cooper – cooperwrites.com
Devon Ament – devonament.com
Erica Donovaro – dandychick.com
Erin Collins – erincollinscw.com
John Anderson – johnranderson.net
Katie Brinkworth – katiebrinkworth.com
Kevin Still – stillkevin.com
Liza Behles – lizabehles.com
Mark Pantsari – mark-pantsari.com
Mary Money – itsmarymoney.com
Mehgan Levesque – mehganlevesque.com
Nattavut Leekulpitak – who-is-oo.com
Ben graduated from Circus in 2009 and is currently in Seattle, where he helped create the above Microsoft project with Wexley School For Girls. On his home page, Ben writes “I want to be an awesome copywriter.” Cool. Me too.
Portfolio: benblissed.com
Mary graduated from Circus in 2008 and lives in NYC. You can tell by her book that she has fun making ads. Just look at the one she did for Barbie up there. Dog pooping magic mushrooms. C’mon. Plus, her name is Mary Money. What more could you want?
Nattavut graduated from Creative Circus in 2010 and lives in Atlanta. I nabbed this from his LinkedIn page: “Nattavut Leekulpitak’s Specialties: Photographic memory, cooking Thai&Chinese dishes, talk shit about you in Thai while smiling at you.” Love it.
Portfolio: who-is-oo.com
Michael graduated from Creative Circus in 2009 and is currently living in Atlanta. Look out advertising, here comes Cambardella.
Portfolio: michaelcambardella.com
Erin graduated from Circus in 2009 and is now in Detroit. After you check out her book (and the above campaign for DSW), check out her About Me page. Good times.
Portfolio: erincollinscw.com
William is a copywriter at Draftfcb in NYC. His wrap-around poster for the Global Coalition for Peace (above) is just awesome. Also dig his campaign for Oreo with Fudge. Yum.
Steffan is a copywriter at the doug agency in Toronto, Arnold and JWT before that, 10 years on the account side before that. Love how his site looks and works. Super clean and easy. Be sure to check out DOUG AGENCY in the ALT section (above). Hilarious.
Jason is a freelance copywriter in LA after doing time at Ignited, DDB, Zuckerman, and The Richards Group. His Rose’s Cocktail Infusions campaign is funny. Makes me embarrassed to be a guy. Also check out his Zuckerman Self Promo. Gross, but you just know someone wore it to an agency party.
Scott is a freelance copywriter/CD in NYC, formerly SVP/Sr CD at BBDO. Where do I start? FedEx or Ebay TV, BBC or Milky Way alt, Snickers snowboarder virals? Too much killer work. I can’t decide.
Shane is a freelance copywriter/CD in Boston, previously at Modernista! and Arnold. This is an awesome portfolio. Print is full of just wicked writing and the TV … wow. He’s got 27 spots up there. Hummer, Bud, MTV, and one of my fave spots all-time, maybe even my all-time fave, “Milky Way” for the VW Cabrio.
Scott is a copywriter at Droga5. The first campaign on his site, for MTV, is stupid funny. The next one, for Swedish Fish, is just as stupid funny, and on it goes. NOTE: I’m usually not a fan of sound effects on portfolio sites, but the air horn is awesome.
Rich is a senior copywriter at Mullen in North Carolina. The biz card above is so cool I wanted to feature it in his post, but it’s not really representative of Rich’s work. He’s a headline writer. A good one. That’s so rare these days, I feel like I should put it in all caps. ALERT. AWESOME HEADLINE WRITER.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/brightblack
Martin is a freelance copywriter in NYC, after having spent time at McCann, mcgarrybowen, Cliff Freeman, D’Arcy and Wunderman. Lots of big idea visual print campaigns in his book. My fave is his Sketchbook (in Extras, third column down). You get to see inside Martin’s brain. Which, no coincidence, is full of big idea visual madness, and I mean that in a very good way. Wish more copywriters included sketchbooks – or something like them – on their sites. How great would it be to see a Janet Champ, Brock Davis, or Max Godsil sketchbook?
Shane is a copywriter in Johannesburg, where he wrote the above campaign for CNA at The Jupiter Drawing Room (One Show 2009). He’s also a taxidermist, celebrity impersonator, novelty snack inventor and dermatologist.
John is a copywriter/ACD at Saatchi in Los Angeles. The work on his site is split into Online and Offline. In Online, check out the Land Cruiser site, RAV4 launch site, and Camry launch site (the remote control Camry on the landing page is FUN).
Peter is a copywriter/ACD at CP+B in Boulder. His site another example of a crazy-talented senior creative with awesome interactive work moving to a low-maintenance, free-of-charge blog. Scroll to the bottom and there’s a link to his old site, so you can check out the difference. Viva la blog!
Portfolio: checkoutmyportfolio.blogspot.com
According to Google Analytics as of February 28, 2010, Modern Copywriter has been visited by 938 cities in 68 countries on five continents, and visitors have had 43 different primary languages. It’s about time MC featured a few of their sites too, no?
JP Caruso, Brazil – jpcaruso.com.br
Christian Tufano, Venezuela – ctufano.blogspot.com
Alex is a junior copywriter in San Francisco. She’s already got an impressive freelance rez and a nice book to go with it, including a couple of killer games for Coke Happiness Factory 3.
Portfolio: almostperfectalex.com
Barbara is a senior copywriter at Tribal DDB in NYC, Ogilvy and R/GA and Big Spaceship before that. With all of that awesome interactive experience, and projects like HBO Voyeur, Nike+ and OfficeMax Arcade in her portfolio, what does Barbara’s site look like? Some big interactive production? Nope. Nine projects you can click through in about two minutes. And all of the info you could want for each project, right there, easy as Sunday morning.
Portfolio: barbarakopeloff.info
Anne is a copywriter at Ogilvy NY, AKQA and GS&P before that. Don’t misses: Fanta, Coke.com, Court TV (above), and Anne’s blog NY Hearts You, Too.
Portfolio: annegeri.com
Felipe is a copywriter/creative consultant in Los Angeles, formerly an ACD at Saatchi. He’s got a ton of great Toyota work on his site, but check out his stuff for the Surfrider Foundation. Wow.
Portfolio: felipe-felipeswork.blogspot.com
Jonny is an interactive copywriter/ACD at Dare, London. He shares a site with creative partner/AD/ACD Dan Harrison. I love how it’s organized. Everything is presented together in a succinct, coherent career story – how they became a team, employment history, the work, awards, all of it – on one tidy page.
Portfolio: danandjonny.com
Wade is a copywriter/CD in Boston, formerly a VP/GCD at Arnold. When you land on his site, you’ll see a pencil with his name on it, and right and left arrows. I recommend you go to the upper right hand corner of the screen and click the arrow way up there, then click on Print as Writer and start with Urban Decay. Just gorgeous writing. “My beautiful ten soldiers.” Love love love it.
Portfolio: wadepaschall.com
Ruchir is a recent copywriter grad from Miami Ad School in Hamburg. He shares his site with art director and fellow MAS Hamburg grad, Sara Kujundzic. Their site is called Instant Ad Legend and it’s crazzzeee. The first thing you do is choose between Bill Bernbach, David Ogilvy, Leo Burnett, and Bruce Lee. Then you’re transported to a world of corrugated madness. If you can nav your way to Ruchir’s portfolio (good luck), check out the Van’s Roofitti case study. Good stuff, as is the site. Sometimes crazy works when it’s crazy enough, you know?
Portfolio: instantadlegend.com
Rick is a senior copywriter at JWT NY, BBDO before that. Don’t misses: Chewbacca Cingular spot (awesome), becomeANmm.com case study, and Rick’s ambient band MOON CAR.
Portfolio: rickabb.com
Dan is a copywriter/SVP/CD at Publicis NY, JWT and DDB before that. I like how his site works. On the left is a small, simple nav box that shifts up and down so it stays vertically centered. The main window background changes to match the product/brand of the creative being featured. And despite Dan’s years in the biz, it’s a tight book: 9 TV, 10 print, 4 web, 2 entertainment.
Portfolio: cohenportfolio.com