Foul Mouth Creative is hanging out its shingle in Seattle with Rachel Carlson as creative director/copywriter and Jourdan Huys as managing director. Slated to soon join them is a creative director/art director. Among the many services the women-led agency offers are brand strategy and positioning; visual identity and design systems; campaign concept development, execution and production; short- and long-form video, digital content, photography, graphics and illustration. Carlson’s experience spans Deutsch LA, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Doner LA and Mekanism as creative director, and most recently served as a partner/executive creative director at boutique creative studio World Famous. She has led creative and developed campaigns for clients including Alaska Airlines, Target, Old Navy, vitaminwater, Amazon Small Business, DiGiorno, and several Netflix shows. Recently, Carlson was behind the new GameStop campaign “There’s a Place for Us,” and the Frida Baby “Stream of Lactation” breast-care campaign, getting the first lactating nipple on network TV during the Golden Globes. Huys is a creatively driven brand marketing generalist with nearly 15 years of experience across a bevy of industries, including food, retail, tech and travel. She ran Ace Hardware and Chili’s accounts at OKRP in Chicago, where she had a hand in the “Hardest Working Jingle” campaign as well as the “Chili’s Is Back, Baby” brand reintroduction. She then moved on to Mekanism West where as creative director she spearheaded award-winning, business-driving campaigns for the likes of Alaska Airlines, Sling TV and Weber, in addition to Amazon and Adobe….
Independent, creative and strategy agency The Distillery Project (TDP) has hired Neil Travers as producer and Sam Ramos as sr. producer. Travers has been working as a freelance motion graphics and video producer. Beginning his career in sports broadcasting, he developed a passion for motion graphics while working with the NFL. Travers then became a video production specialist at Midwest retail-chain Meijer, where he worked alongside the marketing team. He helped Meijer evolve its production offerings from internal video production to short-form social media content. Ramos previously served as a creative content production leader at retail-chain Meijer for 28 years. Ramos’ passion for production started in the fast-paced world of broadcast news, directing commercials, sports, news, and entertainment programs. He worked on projects including Monday Night Football and the Kentucky Derby and interviewed political leaders such as George Bush, Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton. He’s led teams that have created award-winning campaigns, produced content that translated to multimedia executions, and guided teams through production’s evolution to digital and social….
