Aaron James Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

Math Dept is an award-winning Category / Brand Building Studio helps brands become unignorable by building a category of their own.mathdept.com

mtfreelance.com

Andrew Dickson and I launched and manage an online education platform to support creative freelancers in achieving business success. We have served as guides to creatives around the globe, produced a podcast, created a course and community for sharing insights and advice based on years of experience as freelancers in the advertising universe.

whatahowler.com

“The best expression of the state of soccer in America right now.” — The New York TimesHowler: Home of America's Best Soccer StoriesThe pages of Howler are exceptionally colorful, spell-binding, and full of character (and characters)—much like its subject, the world of international soccer.Co-owned with Dennie Wendt, we oversaw the massive project of.

thehittingvault.com

Co-owner of The Hitting Vault, the most popular online Baseball and Softball Hitting instruction, from the internet's most followed hitting coach, Coach Lisle. Sold my interest in the business in Q4, 2023.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Served as a freelance creative Director at Kamp Grizzly and oversaw the production of the highly successful (P1) AlphaBounce global campaign for adidas. Led a team of 12+ creatives, concepting and producing a 360-campaign with over 500 creative assets (including 150 video deliverables). Shot with elite athletes in seven cities across three continents.

Portland, Oregon, United States

I served as resident creative director / director for Farm League (Venice), creating brand films for Nike, TOMS (including their very first broadcast TV commercial), Patagonia, Ford, Levis, The Miami Dolphins and Dickies. Opened the agency’s Portland office in 2015.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Freelance creative on the winning pitch team at W+K that landed the American Express OPEN account. W+K kept me on the AMEX team to launch the new Small Business Saturday TV and OOH campaign that supported small businesses with the Shop Small message. Worked other high-profile clients at W+K Portland: Nike (Global Football / World Cup) and Dodge.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Recruited by a group of ex-Wieden+Kennedy leadership to join their newly created agency, Mutt, which took a scrappy, non-traditional approach to producing unexpected brand and advertising work for clients. Contributed to ideation, strategy, pitching new business and campaign development, along with providing creative team leadership.Led creative efforts on.

New York, New York, United States

Provided the concept and creative direction that was a breakthrough with Ogilvy client Gap. This resulted in an extensive 360 campaign that reintroduced Gap's denim line, 1969, globally.

Portland, Oregon Area

Started with short-term assignment as a young art director on Heineken's new brand advertising campaign that turned into over a year-long freelance stint at W+K Portland.