Anheuser Busch
My art director partner and I started our advertising careers as interns at DDB Chicago. Our first office was a small trash closet where they put all the old foamcore presentation boards. People would open the door and slide the boards behind us. The space was so narrow that eventually I couldn’t roll my chair back to get in and out of my desk. Some of the greatest Home Depot catalogue art + copy was forged in this dungeon, but a year later we working on Bud Light + Budweiser Super Bowl ads and the “Real Men of Genius” radio campaign.
FILM
AGENCY: DDB Chicago
ART DIRECTOR: Dan Strasser
DIRECTOR: Michael Downing
USA Today AdMeter #1 Super Bowl Ad '05
USC *Cocky Award for Best Super Bowl Ad '05
*Cocky is the USC mascot. The trophy is a porcelain bird. See pic below.
My ad partner and I at the Univ. of South Carolina with our Cocky Award trophies for Best Super Bowl Ad 2005. Our jeans (and attitude) were very VERY Van Der Beek.
AGENCY: DDB Chicago
ART DIRECTOR: Dan Strasser
DIRECTOR: John O’Hagan
AOL Super Sunday Ad Poll #1 Super Bowl Ad '06
Featured on CBS’ Greatest Commercials of All Time every year, routinely placing in the top 10 of all time and even getting #1 one year (beating out Coke’s “Mean Joe Greene”).
Mountains were real, cowboys were not.
AGENCY: DDB Chicago
ART DIRECTORS: Anne Bioty + John Baker
DIRECTOR: Tom Routson
USA Today AdMeter #3 Super Bowl Ad '07
The agency didn’t want to pay for all three of us to stay in a hotel for the shoot, so we found a place in Santa Monica for us to share. It was small, but we made it work.
AGENCY: DDB Chicago
WRITING PARTNER: Jason Gorman
DIRECTOR: Baker Smith
RADIO
I was extremely lucky to work on "Real Men of Genius" the most awarded ad campaign of all time.
