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 [...]

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 [...]

FREDERICK FANNON

CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER
McCANN-ERICKSON
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 LISBON PARTICIPANT
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O que espera da experiência Portfolio Night?

“Dar dar dar.”

Se pudesse dar um conselho aos jovens criativos, antes de lhe mostrarem portfólio na PN7, qual seria?

“If you don´t love your portfolio, I won´t either.”

HORACIO “CHACHO” PUEBLA
DIRECTOR CRIATIVO EXECUTIVO
LEO BURNETT LISBOA
HOST OF PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 LISBON
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What are you hoping to experience at Portfolio Night?

“I hope it becomes a melting pot, where not only the juniors learn new things, but also where we, the veterans, get to see new stuff and learn from it.”
What piece of advice [...]

JUSTIN LIM
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
GREY
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?

“Got something that’ll ‘wow’ the guy looking at it.”
Do you prefer to look at work on a laptop or in a physical portfolio?
“Physical folio. For [...]

PEDRO FERRERIA
DIRECTOR CRIATIVO EXECUTIVO
Y&R LISBON
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 LISBON PARTICIPANT
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What are you hoping to experience at Portfolio Night?

“A night that I want to repeat.”
What piece of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?
“Be simple. Be Brave. Be you. Dont be afraid. It’s [...]

ERICH FUNKE
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
SAATCHI & SAATCHI LA
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 LOS ANGELES PARTICIPANT
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What pieces of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?

“This business is all about rejection. Lots of it, so don’t be defensive.”
What was the reaction you got, the advice you received the [...]

PEEP VAN DER MOLEN
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
WOEDEND!
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 AMSTERDAM PARTICIPANT
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Looking back, what was your own first portfolio like?
“My first portfolio was a disaster. I wanted to get into advertising and I had no commercial work whatsoever. Being trained as an autonomous artist, straight from the Academy of Arts, I had only visual stuff – not very [...]

DIOGO MELLO
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
FISCHER
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 LISBON PARTICIPANT
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Looking back, what was your own first portfolio like?
“It was terrible. I still have it and every once in a while I take a look at it and have a laugh. How could those guys hire me? – André Regnier, you´re a visionary! – The funny thing is: at [...]

AARON DASILVA
VP, CREATIVE DIRECTOR
PJA ADVERTISING + MARKETING
HOST OF PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 SAN FRANCISCO
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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?

“Most young creatives think I’m just evaluating their work.  But there’s a story behind the evolution of every idea. That story will tell [...]