Wait – like, literally? It sometimes felt like our ninth graduating quarter kinda lived at DAD for 16 months. They were the first ones to arrive and the last ones to leave. Maybe they just never left? But they always looked fresh and smelled nice, so who knows? What we do know is how hard they worked to make the best portfolios they could. Their passion and persistence paid off in the end, as Q9 collectively created some of our strongest campaigns in recent memory, so we’d say that earns them a little shut eye for a bit.

Ryan Almond

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ McKinney LA

Ky Ceresa

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ RPA

Jacob Church

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Fitzco

Sam Danshes

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Campbell Ewald

Morgan Garces

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Highdive

Nate Gendler

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Karsh Hagan

Tilden Lincoln

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Zulu Alpha Kilo NY

Dale Matthews Jr.

COPYWRITER

Hired @ TBWA \ Media Arts Lab

Nikeia Marie

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Mekanism NYC

Tatom O’Donnell

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ DDB

Easton Orlopp

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ RPA

Shayne Rich

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Party Land

Raquel Roman

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Opinionated

Carly Taylor

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Tombras

Since day one at DAD, our eighth graduating quarter was an incredibly picky and brash bunch. They were hard on themselves, hard on each other, and hard on us – in the very best way. They wanted only the toughest feedback because they wanted to push themselves to do things in a tone that advertisers hadn’t struck before. They tackled tough subjects like climate change, Black financial inequality, women’s sexual rights, Asian American violence, artificial intelligence, PMS, the mental health of adopted people, and told those stories in a way that no other group could.

Blythe Broadbin

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Terri & Sandy NYC

Stephanie Gerschwer

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ PepsiCo/Frito-Lay

Casey Jack Serrano

COPYWRITER

Hired @ In-House

Michael Santos

ART DIRECTOR

Freelance

Nia Shima-Franklin

COPYWRITER

Hired @ The Martin Agency

Jordan Sparks

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Fitzco

With a group of personalities as big as we saw in our seventh graduating quarter, you’d expect the work to be just as big – and damn if they didn’t deliver. Q7 was comprised of eight totally unique individuals who found a way to fully express themselves through the kind of work that we’ve never seen before and will likely never see again.

Alyssa Malak

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Saatchi & Saatchi NY

Ben Weiller

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Goodby Silverstein & Partners

Brit Williams

COPYWRITER

Hired @ OKRP

Dom Dillard

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ GUT

Haydyn Goring

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Havas

Karie Le

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ OKRP

Payton Grutzius

COPYWRITER

Hired @ OKRP

Rachel Bourgeois

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ OKRP

Seth Harrison

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ StubHub

What do you do when every quarter before you is pushed to make the biggest, boldest work in DAD’s short history? Well, Q6 didn’t have to think about it, they just did it. Big ideas to change the world, bold creative that demands your attention, this quarter put themselves fully into their work and the result was our most expressive collection of portfolios ever.

Kirbe Bostick

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Wieden + Kennedy NY

Kaitlin K.

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Mischief

Endia Turney

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners

Lindsay Hartsfield

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ TDA Boulder

Emily Puder

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Edelman

Jordan Bradley

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Momentum Worldwide

Lily Binswanger

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ The VIA Agency

Laura Shelton

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Doner

Ernest James Green

COPYWRITER

Hired @ Wieden + Kennedy NY

Ky Caradonna

ART DIRECTOR

Hired @ Sterling-Rice Group