Recap of Portfolio Night 8 - Austin

Note about the illustration:
Austin is famous for having N. America's largest colony of Mexican free-tailed bats underneath the S. Congress Bridge(750,000).

Portfolio Night is a thirty-five city event where aspiring junior creatives and advertising students show their portfolios to seasoned and highly regarded art directors (such as Ignacio the founder of Portfolio Night), copywriters and creative directors. This year on May 20, Austin was included in the creative host cities for the first time.





Some of the creative directors in Austin were Jim Ferguson (JimBob_Dallas – former Y&R President), Brent Ladd (GSD&M Idea City), Scott McAfee (Sanders\Wingo), Jay Russell (Crispin Porter + Bogusky), Joe Shands (Vendor – former CD at TBWA\Chiat\Day) and Sergio Alcocer (President and CCO of LatinWorks).

Desirée Mata of the host agency, Latinworks-recently named “Multicultural Agency of the Year” by both ADAGE and ADWEEK, was kind enough to recap it for The Ranch.

Please go to this link, which contains video and pictures from our event. In general everyone had a good time and we had White Ghost Shivers play at the end of the night. We also had the guys from Industry Print Shop come to the event and print t-shirts live for the attendees. In general, the portfolios weren't great. Too much social media and applications and virtually zero TV and radio. Please read this blog entry by one of the renown creative directors that participated: http://thedailyferg.com/