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Sea Monkeys are really brine shrimp.
ZAC SPECTOR, COPYWRITER / STORYTELLER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR / DAD
_Daddy to my daughter
[top question to ask me: why the number 5 sucks]
[real world experience]
Climate Reality Leadership Corps, Climate Reality Project
_part of a global community of changemakers leading the fight for just climate solutions across the planet
Creative Director / Storyteller / Copywriter, Freelance, Detroit + wherever you are
_Apple, Ford, Dunkin’, NextEra Energy, Groupon, Dave & Buster’s, Give Wrapped, Yakult, Uncle Frank Energy Services, Westerra CU, Shea Properties, Denver South, AlloSource, The Lundquist Institute
Freelance Creative Director / Writer, Apple, Cupertino
_Got to work with the wildly talented team at Today at Apple, to help write, shoot, edit and shepherd the leadoff episode
for Season 2 of Creative Projects
Freelance Creative Director / Copywriter, FCB Chicago
_NextEra Energy, Groupon
ACD / Copywriter, gtb, Detroit
_Ford Trucks, Ford Digital, Ford Content Studio, Ford SUV, Ford Social, Ford Pass, Ford Service, Quick Lane
Creative Director / ACD / Copywriter, Leo Burnett, Chicago
_Fifth Third Bank, Brooks Running, Samsung, Froot Loops, Planters Nuts, Eggo Waffles, Keebler Cookies, Kellogg's Special K
Freelance ACD / Senior Copywriter, Mekanism, San Francisco
_The North Face, Jim Beam, Amazon Kindle, Muscle Milk, Schwab, MTV VMA, Pepsi NFL (Super Bowl Halftime Show)
Creative Director / Copywriter, Freelance, San Francisco + Chicago
_Lenovo, Intel, Grove Collaborative, Central Garden & Pet, Brawny Paper Towels, The North Face, Jim Beam, Amazon Kindle, Schwab, MTV VMAs, Pepsi NFL (Super Bowl Halftime Show), Virgin America, Corning, Meineke, Fifth Third Bank, Kellogg’s
ACD / Senior Copywriter, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco
_Cheetos, Corona Light, NBA, Chevrolet, Comcast, TD Ameritrade, SONIC Drive-In, Sprint, Ruffles, Doritos, Adobe, Peet's Coffee, Cracker Jack
ACD / Senior Copywriter, Sukle, Denver
_Whole Foods, SCARPA, Denver Water, UNICEF Tap Project, GoLite, LiveWell Colorado, WY Dept. of Health, Elements Therapeutic Massage, Fuser.com, GO Boulder, FPA, Good Times
Copywriter, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder
_Volkswagen, Nike, Microsoft, Domino’s Pizza, Miller, Sprite, Bell Helmets, Giro, Burger King, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Best Buy, Geek Squad, AMEX, Reddi-Wip
Copywriter, Fort Franklin Ad Agency, Boston
_ESPN, NHL, OLN, Burton, Speyside Scotch, Stora Enso, Cambridge Savings Bank, Gadsby Hannah LLP, RCN, Magic Hat Brewing Co.
Copywriting Intern, 360 Ad Agency, Atlanta
_Outward Bound, Coca-Cola, Fox Photo, College Television Network
Equity Trader, Chimera Capital LLC, New York City
_Invested in NASDAQ and NYSE securities, w/ intraday buying power up to $500,000
[fake world experience]
The Creative Circus, Atlanta
_Copywriting
Adhouse, New York City
_Copywriting
University of Georgia, Athens
_M.M.C. in Journalism
_Photojournalism Minor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
_B.A. in English Literature
[awards to ponder]
_ADDY, OBIE, One Show, Radio Mercury, Communication Arts, Webby, FWA, Luerzer's Archive, Contagious, Telly, Hatch, ShowSouth, Denver 50, Creativity, like 497+ news articles, tech blogs and advertising/marketing publications
International Corrugated Packaging Design Competition, 2005
_Judges’ Choice Award for 2005 Speyside Gift Set
_Widely considered Nobel Peace Prize for corrugated cardboard
Creative Circus Student Show
_Best Copywriting, 3 Golds, 2 Silvers + Rising Star Scholarship
Camp Seagull, 1985
_Best Naturalist, Camp II
_King of the land at a seafaring camp, due to irrational fear of jellyfish
Chastain Horse Park, 1982
_7th Place out of 7 in quarterly Chastain Park Horse Show
_Effectively ended my equestrian career
[look ma, no hands]
_Can work all by myself in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Squarespace, Acrobat, Canva, Lightroom, Snapseed, Word, Pages, Slack, Teams, WebEx, Zoom, Dropbox, Box, Google Docs, Google Slides, Keynote, PowerPoint, Instagram, Facebook, BeReal, TikTok, Twitter/X, Snapchat, Etch-A-Sketch, Typewriter
[yippee!]
Camping/Hiking, Trail Running, Skiing, Soccer, Road Trips, Cooking, Drums, Frisbee, Bocce, Backgammon & Photography
Favorite Architects: Antoni Gaudí, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Howard Roark
Artists: Richard Serra, Man Ray, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, Jack Dowd, Yayoi Kusama
Kitchen Utensils: Melon baller, Silicone spatula, Spoon
Screwdriver: Flathead
Movie Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Alexander Payne, Edgar Wright, Martin McDonagh, Alfonso Cuarón, Brad Bird, Wes Anderson, Sidney Lumet, Pedro Almodóvar, Jason Reitman, Stanley Kubrick, John Lasseter, Coen Brothers, Orson Welles, Clint Eastwood, David Lynch, Christopher Guest, Judd Apatow, Spike Jonze, Christopher Nolan, Milos Forman, Stephen Frears.
Movie Villains: Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw), The Sting;
Harry Waters (Ralph Fiennes), In Bruges;
"Big Ern" Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray), Kingpin;
Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest;
Zé Pequeno (Douglas Silva/Leandro Firmina da Hora), City of God;
Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects;
Marquise De Merteuil (Glenn Close), Dangerous Liaisons;
Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day Lewis), Gangs of New York;
Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae), Tsotsi
Literary Characters: Tom Bombadil (Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings);
Lady Brett Ashley (Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises);
Philip Marlowe (Chandler's whole oeuvre);
David Brower (McPhee’s Encounters with the Archdruid);
George Hayduke (Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang);
Will Lightbody (Boyle’s The Road to Wellville);
Wolf Larsen (London’s The Sea-Wolf);
RP McMurphy (Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest);
Ignatius Reilly (Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces);
Austin Popper (Portis's Masters of Atlantis);
”Fast Eddie” Felson (Tevis’s The Hustler);
Murray Jay Siskind (DeLillo’s White Noise);
Ray Midge (Portis’s Dog of the South)