I know you didn’t ask but, when I was a chubby lil 5th grader, I won a contest called “What’s Your Favorite Ad and Why?” My prize was a tour of the DDB Dallas office. They showed us their reel, did a workshop, demo’d the production process, fed us pigs-in-a-blanket. I liked it very much and swore that one day I too would work in advertising.
When I was like 20, I was working at the mall to pay for some community college, and it was there that I met my first art director in the wild. She gave me a list of ad schools to check out and I ended up going with the Creative Circus out in Atlanta.
My first ad job was in Seattle at a spot called Wexley School for Girls in 2011. It was all fun and games until the day my copywriter brother was laid off. The very next morning, I got a call from an old friend, Michael Gallucci, who invited me to partner up in San Francisco at a place called Muh-tay-zik | Hof-fer in 2013. We made some work, won some pitches and awards, met some cool people. We’re still partners, 13 years later. Crazy right? You can find us here at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. Still kicking up dust.