I'm Danny. I'm a Senior Creative and Art Director who lives in Portland, Oregon. Most days I make campaigns, interactive experiences, web sites, scripts, videos, grid systems, photographs, and really anything I consider fun for people to see.

Other days I host podcasts, co-run a production company, and try to put my political science and writing degrees to good use.

Also: I listen to the same songs on repeat way too much.

Currently

Executive Creative Director
Magnetar Advertising

Creating a design studio from scratch; building systems to develop obsessively-human creative; joining and expanding a creative team that loves everything that they do; and, making work that we honestly care about.

Freelance Creative Director and Art Director

Creating ideas, films, artwork, content, digital, social, UX/UI, retail, environmental, strategy, and fun for some of our favorite brands, from concept to execution. Currently managing a team of 50+ creative and production subcontractors for all client projects.

Clients include: Getty Images, American Express, Southern Comfort, Puma, Blossom Brothers.

Collaborations include: Cinco Design, HERENOW, The Fiction Tribe, Sparkloft, 3/Thirds.

Strategy & Experience Chair
Portland Design Festival

A week-long celebration of design in the City of Roses.

PDXDF is a new annual festival honoring Portland’s rich history of community design festivals, bringing together designers of all disciplines, design enthusiasts, and friends of the design community to celebrate and advance our collective crafts.

Principal, Creative Director
Proud & Disgusted

Leading a team of writers and producers for a Portland-based content creation engine and podcast network. Developing scripts, creating new show pitches, and generating new business development.

Previously

Design Lead
Thesis

Clients include: Nike.
Thesis Foundation, Marketing Board Chair

Led a team of creatives making campaign concepts, design executions, film and photography, digital UX/UI, retail experiences and industry-defining ideas for the largest footwear and apparel company on the planet.

Senior Art Director
Babcock Jenkins

Led the creative department in developing creative concepts, technology and content initiatives, as well as projects that expanded client accounts and agency revenue, while ensuring consumers had delightful brand experiences. Spearheaded creative team expansion, management of the design team, as well as developed and managed a creative department internship program.

Interactive Creative Director
CR8UND

Created the agency’s interactive department from scratch, led digital creative, and expanded our clients’ digital and social campaigns and opportunities.

Art Director
Droga5

Developed cross-platform creative concepts, with a focus on consumer experiences that were “obsessively human”, while also developing new out-of-home media techniques.

More

Working in Congress, interviewing Anna Kendrick, creating a design festival, hosting podcasts, running a theater company in the Midwest, and too much fun.