Creative Circus Alumni Awards, Honors, and Achievements from JR Alumni

These graduates have more in common than graduating from the Creative Circus within the past 3 years. They all have done extremely well in their careers in a short period of time. We will continue posting high achievements and honors as they come rolling in, from all alumni, not just the juniors. But kudos to these young creatives! You make us proud. We would love to hear from you all, so join us on facebook, and send us a link to your best creations, your twitter handle, your website, whatever way you want to share yourself and your work and stay connected to us.

Huy Nguyen got a Bronze Cannes Lion in 2008 for a press campaign he did while at Saatchi & Saatchi Vietnam, and got promoted to senior AD soon after. He’s starting his new gig at Y&R Vietnam this week to help his new CD build that office.

Cooper Smith just won 2 pencils at the One Show entertainment awards for the Y'all Vs Us campaign, one bronze and a silver, while working at Y&R.

Jack Miller – 07 grad, was featured in CA ‘10 Advertising Annual for Progressive LGBT and in HATCH ‘09 for Progressive LGBT (Silver) / Carnival Intergrated (Silver) / Carnival TV “Pinata” (Bronze). www.graytshirt.com

Frenzy Hunter was promoted to mid-level CW after a year, and recently won an Effie. twitter.com/FrenzyHunter

Sara Hanks Giessen has been promoted to Senior Designer at Razorfish.
Jason Hopkins, at Slingshot, Got a Gold Addy for this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmoqxV-3ztQ&feature=youtube_gdata.

Ian Falcon has worked as a copywriter at Leo Burnett Chicago, Leo Burnett Germany, and Crispin Porter Bogusky. While at Burnett he won 2 One Show Merits, Kellys Finalist, and New York Festivals Bronze.

Dayna Cotter - design/production/xml - silver ADDY & OMMA for the work on this: www.mercedes-amg.com.


Amy Sinclair won an Atlanta Silver ADDY award for a photograph series she did while at The Circus. She now works for herself: Amy Sinclair Photography.

Bryan Condra was made a senior designer as of May 2009 at Brand Licensing Team, LLC.

Andy "kern" Kiel won a Mobile Bay Silver ADDY for a campaign called Zea "To Go" for the Taste Buds Group. His logo for Atticus, a clothing boutique in Madison, WI, was published in Logo Lounge 5.

Adam Deer has won local awards in Seattle, and was on a Cannes shortlist in the Outdoor Lions category.


Jill Brunner won an AIGA SEED for work done while at The Circus. She is now at Dogeard in L.A., as the senior designer.

Grads Available To Be Hired

If you would like an excel list of graduates who are available to be hired and their websites, please contact me via email at dc.washington@creativecircus.edu. Or, you can find the list of grads available online. Please feel free to email me with any specific needs or job postings and I will post them to a job site that is exclusive to our alumni, faculty, and staff. If you are an alumnus, or a faculty member please join us in the alumni network where you can connect with other alumni and see the job site.