AWARDS

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 - Ilegal Mezcal︱”Love Thy Neighbor”

91st Shorty Awards Gold Distinction - Ilegal Mezcal︱”Donald Eres Un Pendejo”

Hola.

I’m a creative director with a suspicious amount of range: copywriter, journalist, editor, translator, digital strategist, musician, and recovering non-profit coordinator. My natural habitat: advertising, travel, tech, tourism, music, food, art—and Wu-Tang, obviously.

I live where cultures overlap and clash in interesting ways. I like building brands that feel human in more than one language, that can move from Chicago to Mexico City to wherever-you-are without losing their soul. English, Spanish, Spanglish—whatever tells the truth best.

If it lives in culture, I want in. Let’s make work that doesn’t just rack up impressions, but gets felt, bookmarked, screenshotted, and dropped in the group chat with “yo, this is fire.”

Curriculum Vitae

Majority | Associate Creative Director
October 2022 - Present
2023 Adweek Small Agency of the Year
2024 Adweek Multicultural Agency of the Year

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.