AWARDS (among others)

2025 Addy Award | Silver

2023 Cannes Lion | Bronze

2022 Cannes Lion | Gold

2022 Cannes Lion | Silver

2022 U.S. Grand Effie Winner

2022 U.S. Gold Effie Winner for Social

2022 U.S. Silver Effie Winner for Restaurants

92nd Shorty Awards Gold Distinction

91st Shorty Awards Gold Distinction

Hola.

I’m Christopher — a Creative Director with copy roots and a suspicious amount of range. Writer, editor, strategist, translator, musician, occasional smuggler of feeling. Not because I couldn’t pick a lane, but because the best ideas usually don’t stay in one.

I’m drawn to the line under the line — the thing underneath the campaign, the frame, the sentence, the image — the part that makes it all actually hit.

I make work that can cross borders without losing its pulse. Ideas with rhythm. Language with swing. Stories that can move between people, places, and ways of seeing without flattening themselves on the way through. Not wallpaper. Not noise in good shoes. Signal. Soul. Something real enough to travel.

Curriculum Vitae

Majority | Associate Creative Director
October 2022 - March 2026
2023 Adweek Small Agency of the Year
2024 Adweek Multicultural Agency of the Year 2025 AdAge Agency A-List

Wing | Associate Creative Director
January 2021 - October 2022

Grey | Senior Copywriter > Associate Creative Director
August 2019 - October 2022

Papaya Playa Project | Creative Director
August 2021 - Present (Consultation)

Sunday Sunday | Creative Director
July 2016 - April 2020

Ilegal Mezcal | Creative Director
January 2015 - Present (Consultation)

HMU.

cbaugh1@gmail.com
(847) 567-5807

 

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.