September AdBites
Award Winning Senior Art Director
to Speak at September AdBites
The logic of the left combined with the creativity of the right. Chris Newman, an award winning Chicago-based art director, will take you through his highly strategic and engaging creative process and demonstrate why his combined approach to creativity is generating results and getting buzz.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Regency Lodge
11:30 Networking
12 Noon Luncheon & Program
Chris Newman
Senior Art Director with Euro RSCG Chicago
Left-Brain Meet Right-Brain
Chris Newman, an award-winning senior art director at Euro RSCG Chicago, has quickly risen through the ranks from junior level to senior level art director over his six years with the agency. Chris is a lead creative on the agency’s expanding relationship with Sprint and has contributed to multiple direct mail pieces and the launch the Sprint Premier identity, a key customer loyalty retention program.
With a strong understanding of design, strategic conceptual thinking and a keen awareness of how to craft and execute an on-target message, Chris is constantly raising the bar for creative and marketing ideas. For high-profile clients including Sprint, Kraft and EFFEN Vodka Chris has produced award-winning direct mail, out of home and digital work aimed at both the consumer and B-to-B segments.
Chris holds multiple Tempo (Chicago Direct Marketing Association) and AMBIT (Kansas City Direct Marketing) awards for his direct marketing work. In 2010, he was recognized in by Direct Marketing News in their annual “30 under 30” award and by the Chicago Direct Marketing Association’s “Emerging Leaders” awards. Press coverage of Chris’s outstanding work has appeared in the United States Postal Service’s Deliver Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times Media & Marketing blog.
Chris began his design career before with an internship at design agency, Round2 Communications (r2i) in Baltimore, MD and participated in The Martin Agency Student Workshop in Richmond, VA. Upon graduation, Chris was hired full-time at Euro RSCG Chicago, a rare first step for a creative right after graduation.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts Advertising and degree in Fine Arts Graphic Design from Iowa State University.
