Articles by Brett McKenzie
JUSTIN HOOPER
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
MENDELSOHN ZIEN
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 LOS ANGELES PARTICIPANT
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Looking back, what was your own first portfolio like?
“Horrible. Like, really, really horrible. But fortunately I was smart enough to not shop that version of my book around. The same can not be said for my first (and only) car vanity plate, which read “9TMARE.” I had [...]
Tham Khai Meng is Ogilvy & Mather’s new Worldwide Creative Director, and one of the main forces behind Ogilvy becoming a Global Partner of this year’s Portfolio Night — which in turn brought PN7 to Beijing, Beirut, Dubai, Melbourne, New York, Sao Paulo and Tunis.
As a Global Partner, Khai was responsible for filming Ogilvy’s segment [...]
DAVID SIN
GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR
GREY
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 KUALA LUMPUR PARTICIPANT
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Do you prefer to look at work on a laptop or in a physical portfolio?
“Doesn’t matter whether it’s on the laptop or hardcopy. Ideas will jump up at you in any form. Verbal, drawn, written, virtual etc.”
How important is it for a portfolio to be highly polished?
“A [...]
Another day closer to PN7, another city to add to the SOLD OUT list. Yes, Bejing — another first year Portfolio Night city — is going to be a packed house on June 11th!
There are still a handful of tickets left in Montreal, Los Angeles, Kuala Lumpur, Quebec City, Buenos Aires, Melboune and Milan. Get [...]
At Portfolio Night, participants are given fifteen minutes to impress each creative director. How you best utilize those fifteen minutes is up to you, but the folks at Ogilvy Brasil, host of PN7 Sao Paulo, have a few suggestions.
A quick reminder to all who purchased a ticket to this sold-out event: Portfolio Night 7 Sao [...]
Portfolio Night 7 is winding down in Barcelona and Lisbon, and early reports are saying it’s a fantastic evening (that’s present tense, because they don’t look like they’re ending anytime soon).
The excitement from these two cities must’ve carried on over to others, because while they were going on, both Singapore and Tunis officially SOLD OUT!
So [...]
