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 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 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
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
Erich is a copywriter/CD in NYC. Check out his campaign for the Urban Cat League, “a NYC-based organization that rehabilitates feral street cats and kittens, and finds them stable, loving homes.” Way to use your ad powers for good, sir. Tip o’ the Hat.
Portfolio: erichhartmann.net
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
Shanteka is a copywriter/GCD/SVP at SandersWingo in Austin. First, check out her AT&T spot “Swag.” Then click on Viral and check out the Swag parodies. Love it when that happens.
Portfolio: shantekasigers.com
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
Lee is a copywriter at Outcrop Communications in the Northwest Territories. He’s the only copywriter in all three territories of Canada’s North: Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. Which means we can safely say that his site is an MC Exclusive. (Heh-heh.) Love that. Tip ‘o the Hat for holding down the fort, LC. Stay warm.
Portfolio: leecristiano.ca
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 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
Miguel is a copywriter at Fullsix Portugal. This is a fun one. Can’t imagine what it was like on the set of his Mostra-me spot. Wow. Also, be sure to watch Miguel’s About Me video. It proves that he’s good with words in a way his work alone never could.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/miguelduraocopywriter
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
André is a young copywriter at Y&R Lima (the most awarded agency in Perú, I’m told). Here are a couple of things that are nice to see in a young CW’s portfolio. One, a simple execution of a cool idea, like André’s Lady Speed Stick video. Two, the ability to take pre-existing product footage and make something out of it, like Andre’s spots for Toyota Advantage Edition. Well done.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/andretoledo
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 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
Gene is a senior copywriter/ACD at Anson-Stoner in Orlando. He’s got a shiny new Cargo site featuring a stick figure intro film that’s genius. Crazy coincidence: Jack Thoroughbred happens to be the name of my moose, too. Heh-heh.
Portfolio: genealbamonte.com
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 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 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 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
Todd is a copywriter/acd/vp at RPA in LA. His book is loaded with awesome work for Honda–one of MC’s secret fave car brands. Todd is an alum of Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade, yet again proving MC’s theory that comedians, drummers and surfers make fabulous copywriters. Maybe we should add categories for those in the sidebar. Hmm.
Portfolio: toddcareycreative.com
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
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)
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
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
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
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
Joel is a junior copywriter at TracyLocke in Dallas. First job, brand new, good times. MC always loves seeing what student books land what students where. Also love seeing a CW’s vacation photos, and Joel’s site features an excellent selection.
Portfolio: cargocollective.com/joelbrillant
Kathleen is a copywriter/ACD at DDB Chicago. Someday, MC is going to move to Chicago just to see what a real TV commercial budget feels like. We’re guessing pretty nice. Great to see some Chicago sites starting to come MC’s way.
Portfolio: kathleentax.com