VCU Brandcenter Week 2012 – Lonnie Elliott
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2012 – Craig Gerringer
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2012 – Whitney Ruef
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2012 – CW Grads
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:...
View ArticleScott Johnson
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....
View ArticleSteve “Butter” McElligott
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,...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2013 – Kai Neddersen
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2013 – Daniel Chen
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2013 – Andrew Kong
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,...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2013 – CW Grads
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:...
View ArticleBrandon Willingham
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,...
View ArticleKeat Powell
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – Garrick Sheldon
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – Ally Farrish
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)...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – Samson Madella
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,...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – Jimmy Burton
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week 2014 – CW Grads
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 –...
View ArticleStephen Lundberg
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week – Madeleine Trebenski
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...
View ArticleVCU Brandcenter Week – Emma Dou
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...
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