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VCU Brandcenter Week 2012 – Lonnie Elliott

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There are copywriters. And there are writer/copywriters. Lonnie is the latter. His ‘Preamble’ taken directly from his site: “Fact: Dyson vacuums use the same plastic as riot shields. I’ve never understood writers who work best by distancing themselves from the details of a product. For me, the opposite is true. Knowledge fuels my creative thinking. Working on a problem is like a game of chess. It only takes a few pieces to checkmate the king, but I never know which ones until I start playing. The Dyson fact above remains my favorite crumb of information found while researching a campaign. It was later abandoned, like many others, for lacking the relevancy to become an ad. Such is the process. And for many reasons, why I love it.”

Portfolio: lonnieelliott.com


VCU Brandcenter Week 2012 – Craig Gerringer

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MC is a fan of funny. If you can write funny and smart, there’s at least a 51% chance you’ll make it as a copywriter. Craig can write it funny. Check out his Jack Handy-esque campaign for Bigelow Tea (above). And there are good times all up and down his site. Including a Movember vid. Which is just. I mean.

Portfolio: http://cargocollective.com/cgerringer

VCU Brandcenter Week 2012 – Whitney Ruef

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What do CDs and recruiters look for in a graduating CW’s portfolio? Well, for starters, work that looks like someone had fun making it. Whitney’s definitely falls into that category. In addition to ads, she’s got Greeting Cards for Cardless Occasions, Depressed Copywriter submissions, and Horsewarming—a relaunch of Digital Kitchen. Awesome.

Portfolio: whitneyruef.com

VCU Brandcenter Week 2012 – CW Grads

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Ladies and gentlemen, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of the 2012 VCU Brandcenter graduating copywriters (in alphabetical order):

Daniel Aguinaga: danielaguinaga.com

David Ashton: davidjashton.com

Christopher Brotzman: chrisbrotzman.com

Phil Clockers: phil.clockers.org

Lonnie Elliott: lonnieelliott.com

Matt Garcia: cargocollective.com/rmattgarcia

Craig Gerringer: cargocollective.com/cgerringer

Bri Hand: secrethidingplaceofbrihand.com

Bryce Isaacson: bryceisaacson.com

Alina Karabaich: karabaich.com

Patrick Kraft: patrickkraft.com

Alex Ledford: alexledford.com

Yahkeema Moffitt: yahkeema.com

Mariana Oliveira: heymar.com

Nick Park: cargocollective.com/nickpark

Brandon Poole: bpoole.com

Johnathan Ranson: iamjonransom.com

Whitney Ruef: whitneyruef.com

David Satterfield: david-satterfield.com

Ben Schneider: schneiderben.com

Chris Sheldon: crsheldon.com

Scott Thomasch: cargocollective.com/LostBoy

Jeff Vitkun: jeffvitkun.com

Tedd Wood: teddwood.org

Scott Johnson

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Scott is a senior copywriter at VITRO in San Diego. Know what makes MC happy? Flipping through a portfolio and seeing killer writing all over the place. Long copy writing. Pages and pages of it. Because that means someone was doing some writing, and selling some writing, and buying some writing, and producing some writing. Which makes MC happy. And that’s a good way to start a Friday.

Portfolio: scojomojo.com

Steve “Butter” McElligott

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Steve is a copywriter/CD in NYC. He shares a site with AD/CD Jerome Marucci (who submitted it to MC, thanks man), and holy smokes it’s a great one. Google, Monster.com, BBC World News, FedEx, G4TV, Guinness, Virgin Mobile, ESPN, and it goes on. Just amazing work, all the way through. Love it.

Portfolio: butterandjerome.com

VCU Brandcenter Week 2013 – Kai Neddersen

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VCU Brandcenter Week! Love it. And Kai is a perfect start to the week. He was an intern copywriter at inHouse, Target’s fabulous internal creative department, back in 2010, when MC was a Creative Manager there. Kai could have probably gone right from that internship into a job, but instead decided that he wanted to learn more. He didn’t just want a good first job, he wanted a great first job, and he recognized that what he needed to get it was, well, VCU. Now, couple of years later, here he is, graduating from VCU, and that’s crazy awesome. Congrats, Kai!

Portfolio: kaineddersen.com

VCU Brandcenter Week 2013 – Daniel Chen

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VCU Brandcenter Week Tuesday: Mr. Daniel Chen. Lots of fun writing all over his site, including a type solution campaign for Wonderbra (not kidding) and Sad Children’s Projects, which really is one of the saddest things MC has ever seen in a portfolio. Macaroni WE CAN’T AFFORD THIS and homemade 3RD FAVORITE SON medal. Yes.

Portfolio: thedanielchen.com


VCU Brandcenter Week 2013 – Andrew Kong

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So hard to pick which VCU CW grad portfolios to feature during VCU Brandcenter Week! They’ve all got something special about them. Don’t miss Andrew’s Botot radio (the world’s first toothpaste, created for King Louis XV, who knew?), and Shun Cutlery campaign (Honor Haiku, funny). Nice to see some creativity in brand/client selection. Good times.

Portfolio: andrewckong.com

VCU Brandcenter Week 2013 – CW Grads

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Ladies and gentlemen, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of the 2013 VCU Brandcenter graduating copywriters (in alphabetical order):

Adam Tetreault: adamdtetreault.com

Andrew Kong: andrewckong.com

Atain Ibia: atain.me

Chris Martin: notthatchrismartin.com

Christina Semak: christinasemak.com

Daniel Chen: thedanielchen.com

Don Principe: thedonprincipe.com

Evelynne Scholnick: evelynnes.com

Faye Ibars: fayeibars.com

Gary Baker: andthenithought.com

Ian Downey: upsidedowney.com

Kai Neddersen: kaineddersen.com

Katlyn Williams: katlynwilliams.com

Maddison Bradley: maddisonbradley.com

Mary Gross: maryfgross.com

Matt Meszaros: mattmeszaros.com

Matt Skibiak: mattskibiak.com

Megan Winterhalter: meganwinterhalter.com

Michelle Lamont: michellelamont.com

Taylor Schumaker: taylorschumaker.com

Zac Milner: zacmilner.com

Brandon Willingham

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Brandon is a senior copywriter at Arnold Boston. He went to U of Texas plus VCU, then onto McKinney, Crispin and now, Arnold. (Nice.) Lots of killer work on his site for brands like Coke Zero, Domino’s Pizza, Carnival Cruise Lines, and Under Armor. Good stuff.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/bwillingham

Keat Powell

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Keat is a senior copywriter at Free Agents in Richmond, VA, and an adjunct instructor at VCU. Awesome to see portfolios come in from long-time Richmond creatives. (Big-ups, Keat.) Such a strong community there, led by Martin and VCU. Dig it. More, please!

Portfolio: keatpowell.com/copywriter

VCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – Garrick Sheldon

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VCU Brandcenter Week 2014 kicks off with Mr. Garrick Sheldon. Part of the fun of putting together a student book is that you not only get to go crazy creative with the work, but also with clients/projects. Garrick’s Monsanto campaign “In search of solutions, not popularity” flips the finger at protesters in the name solving world hunger. His Gas-X campaign “Focus” is a series of short documentaries about people who need less distractions on the job—female and male strippers is the first (above), bomb technicians will be the second. His LegalZoom.com campaign “Garage, Inc.” is about connecting entrepreneurs with investors who are willing to invest workspace. Dig it.

Portfolio: garricksheldon.com

VCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – Ally Farrish

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You know what’s funny? Listening to people annunciate when they’ve got a cold. It’s just stupid funny. Ally’s campaign for Afrin features a Google Translate language setting for Congested (sponsored) that turns ordinary sentences into their stuffed-up equivalent. Afrin needs to do that.

Portfolio: allyfarrish.com

VCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – Samson Madella

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Samson is from South India, where from 2002 through 2012 he was a professional bass player, church elder, missionary, guitar player, songwriter, clinician, proofreader, gofer, report writer, activist, publicist, singer, change agent, band manager, hotel lobby musician, content writer, and social justice advocate. Today, he is a new copywriter grad from VCU Brandcenter, and his site features projects represented by electric guitar pedals. Excellent.

Portfolio: samsonmadella.com


VCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – Jimmy Burton

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Jimmy’s Divorce-A-Ments project begins with this simple introduction: “A lot of things change after your parents get divorced. One of those things is Christmas.” Amen, brother. MC is guessing we’ll see some form of these in Urban Outfitters around November/December.

Portfolio: jimmyburton.com

VCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – CW Grads

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Ladies and gentlemen, MC is honored to present the portfolio sites of the 2014 VCU Brandcenter graduating copywriters (in alphabetical order):

Sam Bauer - sambauercw.com

Karen Bolipata – karenbolipata.com

Jimmy Burton – jimmyburton.com

Ally Farrish – allyfarrish.com

Peter Henningsen – peterhenningsen.com

Katie Johnston – katierjohnston.com

Blakeley Jones – blakeleyjones.com

Demian Kendall – demiankendall.com

Chase Kimball – clkimball.com

Nicole Lague – nicolelague.com

Liz Loudy – lizloudy.com

Samson Madella – samsonmadella.com

Steve Nass – stevenjnass.com

Trong Nguyen – tronghnguyen.com

Hunter Pinnell – hpinnell.com

Erin Ridgeway – erinridgeway.com

Garrick Sheldon – garricksheldon.com

Gabe Sherman – meetgabesherman.com

Colleen Trachy – colleentrachy.com

Stephen Lundberg

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Stephen is a copywriter/CD at Ogilvy in NYC. Since his last post on MC (06.15.10), he moved to Ogilvy from Gotham and added a bunch of new work to his site—including the web series “Always Open” for Denny’s (above, from Gotham) with Dave Koechner, featuring comedians like Will Arnett, Amy Poehler and Sarah Silverman. Dig it.

Portfolio: stephenlundberg.com

VCU Brandcenter Week – Madeleine Trebenski

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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

VCU Brandcenter Week – Emma Dou

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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

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