JOBS THIS WEEK:

If interested in these jobs, Contact D.C. Washington at dcwemail@gmail.com or connect on linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcwashington to send your website and find out more information. If it looks like you're a fit I'll get back to you asap.


SR CW Southern Cali

1) Looking for a TV capable writer, someone with dialogue/humor experience.
2) Award winning work not required but award worthy will do
3) Experience Level: SR: full portfolio whether 3 yrs or 10 yrs
4) some management responsibilities. We call them Team leaders, they might be responsible for one or two accounts. Some leadership and management skills would be necessary, but long-term experience in either is not.
5) The ideal candidate might have work that would be targeted toward young males (23-26 year olds), beverage/spirit experience, humorous writing abilities, and good presentation skills. I would expect that person to have a maturity level that might allow them to be trusted with important clients. I would like someone who can think digitally and with a high degree of strategic sensibility.

JOBS THIS WEEK:

If interested in these jobs, Contact D.C. Washington at dcwemail@gmail.com or connect on linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcwashington to send your website and find out more information. If it looks like you're a fit I'll get back to you asap.

Connecticut based Integrated marketing agency seeking JR art director (1-4yrs exp.)
1-4 years experience in an agency or marketing firm creating integrated campaigns for major brands; passion to push ideas while keeping focused on workable and successful solutions. Print, packaging, promotions and presentations. Concept through completion working on a wide variety of integrated marketing materials in CPG.

North Carolina Based Agency, Highly publicized and recognized for both great design and advertising, seeking:
JOB: JR Art Director - integrated strong conceptual thinking
JOB: 1 Mid AD Strong conceptually, with really strong design sensibilities, broadcast, print and interactive experience preferable.

Students and Grads Who Will Be At This Year's One Show Festival

Forty-eight Creative Circus students and graduates will be in New York City for this year's One Show Festival, portfolio reivews, and One Club sponsored agency tours. Since we were going to be in the city I requested agency tours just for our own Circus folks, with Droga 5, Strawberry Frog, Digitas, TAXI, and Pentagram. And they graciously agreed. A big thanks to all those who helped make this happen. There is a lot of talent in this big bunch of hungry young creatives. Check out their websites here. And if there's anyone you want to see, give me a shout and I'll do my best to arrange it. Happy One Show Festival and Creative Week!

More Creative Circus Alumni Awards, Honors, and Achievements

I'm excited to share more outstanding achievements from some of our recent graduates, alumni who graduated within the last few years. If you haven't already, connect to us on Facebook and Twitter, where we will be highlighting even more work and news from the school. Also join the Facebook Alumni Group, exclusive to alumni, faculty and staff, where only those things relative to them will be posted and invites to alumni reunions, etc. will be broadcast. We currently have a job site on an alumni network, also exclusive to alumni, faculty and staff. Like proud parents - or maybe aunts and uncles - we love to hear about your success, so if you want your work to be considered for posting, send us your name, your award or achievement, link to your website, and your Twitter handle if you have one. And thanks for sharing!

Katy Graham, who graduated in late 2008, managed to get herself promoted to Senior Copywriter at CP+B this February, within two years of graduating! She works on the Old Navy account, among others.

While at Mullen in Boston, Justin Bajan won 7 silver Hatch Awards, and he and his partner were named top junior team in the 49th Annual Hatch Award Show. He is now at David & Goliath.

Alumnus, Andy Pearson was promoted to ACD at CP+B, where he has been working since graduating in late 2008. Congrats Andy!

Liza Behles pulled a Cannes Part Deux in summer of 2009 by representing the Cannes Young Lion USA Cyber Team one year after winning a Cannes Future Lion while at the Creative Circus. Liza is now an interactive copywriter at Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

A spot Tricia Desjardin did for American Airlines just started airing. check it out http://ow.ly/1tOdV

Matt Livengood won a 2009 7th District Silver Addy and a 2009 Birmingham Gold Addy.

Mary O'Keefe got 4 stars from Bob Garfield of Ad Age, and later was first on the list "Ads Garfield admired in 2009" for the work she did at Walrus for Maloney & Porcelli (www.expenseasteak.com)

Keith Taylor has had photography featured in Lighting Essentials Magazine, AtlantaCreatives.com, and Strobist.com

Lorrie Dallek was shooting in Thailand, Vietnam & Myanmar (Burma) for 3 months. She has been involved in an Anti-Sex Trafficking Shelter in Thailand for the last 6 months and she visited the shelter on her recent trip. Lorrie is now also involved with a group in Myanmar on anti-sex trafficking in a consultative role. She is working on getting the images from all her shooting up on her website. We'll be sure to pass that along when we get it from her!

ACD from AKQA gives creative advice

I received a message today via facebook from Steve Tornello, Creative Circus alumnus and ACD at AKQA in San Francisco. It's advice to young creatives well worth sharing, and the posting he shared is fun too.

Steven Tornello April 7 at 1:02pm

This is something i harp on with my teams. I think it's essential to have artistic interests outside of advertising, mainly because advertising is really moving away from traditional forms and into many other different expressions. Which means that someone who purely loves advertising and only advertising might not have the best skillset moving forward.

So I always encourage students and creatives to find different outlets to express yourself, whether it be what you do best or what you don't do well at all.

And if I didn't do some of that myself, I would be a hypocrite.

That being said, here's some horoscopes I wrote that just got published by divinecaroline.com. That's a website for women. I am a man. So it's a challenge. Whether or not I succeeded is somewhat irrelevant. But I'm a better writer for going through the process.

http://www.divinecaroline.com/32649/96015-roll-dice--april--visiting-visionary

hope all is well.

steve.
http://steveohville.com
http://twitter.com/steveohville

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.