BRIAN VANDEPUTTE
Multi-disciplinary and media-agnostic creative problem-solver who thinks you’re great.Hello there, Beautiful Internet Stranger
At various points throughout my career, I’ve worked as an art director, creative director, designer, and occasional artist.
Across these assorted roles, my job has been to solve brands’ problems and needs in simple, visually-pleasing ways with simple, conceptually-pleasing ideas.
These aforementioned ideas have been expressed via multiple solutions: a viral, interactive treasure hunt game made for conspiracy-obsessed Swifties; an OOH campaign encouraging Internet cynics (and real-life cynics) to vote; an 11-season social series for Gen Z by Gen Z helping them rediscover the fun in sports; a shiny new logo for a shiny new electric-vehicle company…
Across all genres of projects, I am committed to diversity, both in the people I work with and the projects I work on. It makes what I do and who I do it with more fulfilling and memorable.
I hate having my picture taken 🫣
2024—Present
R/GA, North America
Creative Director (Contract)2022—2024
Google Brand Studio
Art Director2018—2022
R/GA, San Francisco
Sr. Art Director 2014—2018
Argonaut Inc., San Francisco
Art Director2013—2014
180, Los Angeles
Art Director2012—2013
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Detroit
Jr. Art Director2010–2012
Virginia Commonwealth University, Brandcenter
M.S. Mass Communications, Concentration in Art Direction2006–2009
Michigan State University
B.S. Advertising
2006—∞