BRIAN VANDEPUTTE
Multi-disciplinary and media-agnostic creative problem-solver who thinks you’re great.Hello there, Beautiful Internet Stranger
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—2025
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—∞