Ryan montgomery
ART DIRECTOR

I like making things I've never made before.

I've spent the last 15+ years at Ad Age A-List creative shops making all kinds of them. Big TV productions. Digital ideas that needed to be built from scratch. Experiential stunts. Brand systems. Photography. Design. Trying to make luxury, healthcare, and devices interesting. Tell stories. Land dumbs jokes. Make things that didn't exist when we started talking about them. Problems excite me. They usually mean you're trying something hard. Or something new.

Along the way, a few of those problems have been recognized at Cannes, the One Show, CLIOs, and with an Emmy.

ryanpmontgomery@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/ryanmontgomery

work experience

SPARK // Associate Creative Director
Aug 2023 - Present
Clients: Brand USA, Norwegian Cruise Line, Visit Baltimore, Visit Florida, Visit Lauderdale

Intuit // Freelance Creative Director
Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
Brand: Mailchimp

Arnold Worldwide // Associate Creative Director
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Clients: Cox Communications, Chewy, Progressive, Stellantis

Freelance // Creative Director
JohannesLeonardo Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Revery Feb 2021
The Martin Agency Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Clients: Amazon, CarMax, GoodRx, Volkswagen

MullenLowe // Associate Creative Director
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
Clients: athenahealth, Axe, Barclays, Burger King, E*TRADE, Google Cloud, Humana, JetBlue, Sennheiser, The Royal Caribbean, Today’s Military, Twisted Tea

MullenLowe // Senior Art Director
May 2015 - Feb 2018
Clients: E*TRADE, Indeed.com, Google Cloud, JetBlue, The JetBlue Card, The Royal Caribbean, Zappos

Mullen // Art Director
May 2012 - May 2015
Clients: Acura, Airbnb, Indeed.com, Google Nexus, Google Play, JetBlue, The National Geographic Channel

Mullen // Junior Art Director
August 2011 - May 2012
Clients: Google Nexus, Google Play, Google Apps for Small Business, Google Galaxy Nexus, iRobot, JetBlue, The Good Belly Project, Zappos

Mullen // Art Director Intern
June 2011 - August 2011
Clients: With Google, Foxwoods Casino, Panera, Zappos

PP+K // Junior Creative
August 2009 - June 2011
Clients: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Big Boy Restaurants, Metropolitan Ministries, MLB/Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, Tampa YMCA

Portfolio School // Academy of Art University
June 2008 - July 2009

Martin Williams Advertising // Accounting Clerk
April 2007 - May 2008
Paper cuts

University of Minnesota
2003 - 2007
B.A. Journalism Mass Communications