Creative Director · GSD&M · Austin TX
Making work that wins Cannes, moves culture, and occasionally delivers pizza through the sewers of New York.
A 40-foot Charles Barkley air ship. James Naismith travels through time. Caitlin Clark sinks 3's with a pretzel. Yup, it's Madness.
Some say we've jumped the shark. I think we're just getting started. Charles Barkley, Sam Jackson, Magic Johnson and on occasion Jennifer Garner take the ultimate road trip to the final four where literally anything is possible. For a campaign that's been running for 10+ years, you've got to go big or go home.
Southwest Airlines got rid of the one thing that made them a distinct airline. So we dogged on them and it made people love the airline even more.
Turns out according to "research" people actually hated open seating. We've all been there, forgot to check in and ended up C28. Panic setting in, as you realize the dreaded center seat was the only option left. It was enough to make you feel like The Hunger Games. Hold up. That's the idea.
John Travolta as Santa Claus? There's only one rational thing you can do. Revisit all of his hit movies and turn them into bank commercials. Yes, Face Off will happen.
Charming, fun, and filled with holiday magic, these spots which pay homage to Grease and Saturday Night Fever are some of my Dad's favorite commercials ever. Does Santa really have a Quicksilver card? Sure why not? Did this win The Drum's best Christmas ad ever? No but it got really really close. Like #5.
"6-Year-old Dale. I've traveled from the future to tell you'll make a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Hut commercial, and it will be the coolest thing you ever do in your life."
To launch Seth Rogen's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated film, we asked the only question that really mattered: what if Pizza Hut actually delivered to the sewers of New York City? From there, things got appropriately ridiculous. We made a spot featuring Pizza Hut delivered straight to the Turtles' secret lair, turned the New York City subway system into a stunt, and built an alternate reality game where people could scan real manholes, find the Turtles, and deliver pizza to them like this was somehow a totally normal thing to do.
We turned a pizza box into an arcade machine. Nostalgia trip like it's 1985.
You can't play arcade games at Pizza Hut anymore, so we brought the arcade to the pizza box. With Bandai Namco and Tool of North America, we created Hut ARcade: a WebAR Pac-Man game you could play right on the box through your phone browser. No app. No downloads. No grimy arcade quarters.
The rebrand that made Pizza Hut feel like a cultural icon again. New look, original soul, Book It.
Remember Friday nights at the red roof? A couple quarters into PAC-MAN, a couple slices of pepperoni into your face, and enough Pepsi in those red cups to ruin your sleep schedule. That era may be gone, but that didn't mean the Pizza Hut magic had to be. So we set out to bring the Hut home and reboot everything people loved about it for a new generation.
Combat toxic masculinity with a short film straight out of Spielberg's playbook. A film about a boy and an alien.
What role does a men's brand have in the era of #MeToo? To launch its brand as a leading voice of progressive masculinity, we created a new short film for Harry's to amplify the ongoing cultural conversation around what it means to be a man today. Created in partnership with The Representation Project, "A Man Like You" tells the story of an alien who discovers how to be a man with the help of a young boy.
A children's book that gives a voice to kids detained at the Southern Border of the United States.
In 2019, the United States detained more than 300,000 children. Stories collected by human rights advocates revealed shocking and deplorable conditions at the border. Despite the fact that hundreds of sworn declarations from children had been filed in federal court, their voices were largely unheard. Our idea was to turn these black-and-white legal declarations into a vibrant children's book.
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I'm a Creative Director/Art Director at GSD&M, which is a nice way of saying I spend a lot of time trying to make brands feel like something a real person might actually care about. I like bold ideas, simple setups, strong visuals, and humor that doesn't feel like it was approved by nineteen lawyers.
What keeps me in it is making ideas that get people a little stoked. The kind that make you laugh, feel something, or actually remember the brand afterward. At the end of the day, I'm here to make work people enjoy spending time with. If it happens to sell something too, even better.