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Agency Life

The language of ideas.

Agencies you know. Clients you've used. Then my own shop.

Copywriting and creative direction across fulltime and contract roles at some of the industry's most respected shops. Then a branding studio I founded and ran to the top twenty-five in the country. Everything I've built since uses the same muscle, just applied to technology.

The Shops
Y&R·AKQA·DDB·Goodby
Doner·Riney·Apple Design Studio
The Clients
Apple·Land Rover·Mattel
Jaguar·Lincoln·JCPenney
CNET·Palm
Founded & Ran

Then I opened Zing.

A branding studio that turned into a retail destination. Transformed a rundown Firestone building into one of the top gift and home stores in America.

Zing storefront interior with curated branding, design products, and lifestyle retail displays
$2M
Annual revenue at peak
20+
Team hired and managed
Top 25
Gifted Retailers in America
The Through-line

The brief arrives. You find the idea. You pitch it. You revise it. You ship it. That loop doesn't leave you.

A patent is a brief with a longer deadline. A startup is a brief you wrote yourself. The idea is still the job.