Andrew Payton

Writer - Creative Director - Brain

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance: CD/CW 2022-present - NBA, Starbucks, video games, startups, script doctoring, and an unsettling milk substitute. NDA's abound.
Amazon: CD/CW (Contract) 12/21-4/22 - Worked on humanizing Alexa. She liked it. He didn’t.
PepsiCo: GCD/CW 2019-21 - Creative lead Mtn Dew, worked across Pepsi brands. All social, all the time. First full time client side role.
Saatchi: CD/CW 2017-19 - Most proud of our ASA work. We created a viable product that helps kids connect what they love with what they may someday do.
Translation: CD/CW 2016-17 - Worked on Apple, HBO, NBA, and other brands that make the world a more interesting place.
R/GA: CD/CW 2009-15 - Google, Mentos, Chapstick, Walmart, Verizon & Audible. R/GA was like Paris. Complicated at first, but then it lived up to the hype.

ABOUT
I'm a maker-creative director; a conceptor, copywriter, and sometimes co-technologist on every portfolio project.

I’M GOOD AT

I’m not perfect, but I’m a natural writer. It’s my thing, and I’m lucky to have found it. I can make boring things interesting, and help resuscitate brands on the cusp of bitter death. I also have a knack for pitching, and have made lots of money for my employers over the years. There are worse things.

RECOGNITION

Clios. Cannes. Webbys. Andys. Effies. One Show. Addys. Art Directors. NY Festivals. CA. Obie. London International. AICP. Graphis. Fake twee-sounding award.

THEY TAUGHT ME

Drew University
Bachelor of Arts
Portfolio Center
Bachelor of Arts English

I TAUGHT THEM

Creative Circus
School Visual Arts

LIFE & HOW I LIVE IT

I live in Park Slope, Brooklyn with my extraordinary wife Kat, extraordinary wife Katherine, our kid and future world leader Annabelle, and the new kitten, Sparkle Snowdrop Mittens Midnight Paws.