STEVEN ANACKER
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
SWIRL
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 SAN FRANCISCO PARTICIPANT
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What single piece of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?

“Have a clear vision of what you intended for each campaign and be prepared to share that vision.”

Looking back, what was your own first portfolio like?
“Mostly hand drawn. [...]

JASON WHITE
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
LIFT
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 CHICAGO PARTICIPANT
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What single piece of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?

“Be yourself. Be open to advice and direction. Never apologize about anything you are about to present.”
Looking back, what was your own first portfolio like?

“My first portfolio was [...]

MICHAEL SCHER
CO-CHAIRMAN, CREATIVE
HEY HARRY WORLDWIDE
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 TORONTO PARTICIPANT
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What are you hoping to experience at Portfolio Night?
“Fear and loathing.”
What single piece of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?
“Have a point of view. Know who you are and what you do, and how you are [...]

CHRIS CHIU
EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
LEO BURNETT
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 SINGAPORE PARTICIPANT
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What single piece of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?

“First of all, enjoy yourself. Come with an open mind, listen to what the CDs have to say (and there will be a lot that [...]

TEDDY BROWN
SVP EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
DRAFTFCB
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 LOS ANGELES PARTICIPANT
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Looking back, what was your own first portfolio like?
“Absolute dreck. I was one of the last generations of hires to get accepted at an agency without attending an ad school. I worked like hell my first two years to build a new book from scrap and [...]

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 [...]

WADE HESSON
GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR
MacLAREN McCANN
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 TORONTO PARTICIPANT
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What are you hoping to experience at Portfolio Night?

“New points of view on the same old problems.”
Do you prefer to look at work on a laptop or in a physical portfolio?

“I like pieces of paper. Advertising is about nailing down ideas – turning thoughts into things. For [...]

DANIEL COMAR
EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
OGILVY & MATHER
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 KUALA LUMPUR PARTICIPANT
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What single piece of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?

“Don’t try to sell yourself. Focus on improving your book.”
What was the reaction you got, the advice you received the very first time you showed [...]

RAY BARRETT
CO-CHAIRMAN, CREATIVE
HEY HARRY WORLDWIDE
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 TORONTO PARTICIPANT
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What single piece of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?

“Be prepared to throw away your book and start again. - It’s not how good you are it’s how good you want to be.”
What the coolest thing [...]

CRAIG LOVELIDGE
FREELANCE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 AMSTERDAM PARTICIPANT
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What are you hoping to experience at Portfolio Night?
“I’m looking to be around creative people, to see what’s happening out there in the dark corners of young creative’s minds and help answer any questions that these free thinkers may have about their ideas, their possibilities and their futures.
“It’s [...]