Officers
Nick Johnson
President
Nick is a Senior Strategic Communications major who describes himself as a lanky quipster and sweatpants connoisseur. As President, he makes sure everything runs smoothly and everyone stays on track.
Nick loved Serve Marketing's Strong Baby campaign. He explains, "These images are absolutely wonderful. The image captures your attention, and makes you dive deeper into the ad. These images are hard to forget, which makes the campaign idea stick."
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Megan Benedict
Vice President
Megan is in her third year at UWM, and she's double majoring in Film Studies and Strategic Communication. She tries to watch every movie possible and even gets around to homework sometimes. As VP, Megan is responsible for all communications for AdClub, and assisting Nick by making sure everything is on course. She's new to Twitter but is learning fast!
Her favorite commercial has been and always will be Amp'd Mobile--Busted for obvious reasons!
Connect with Megan: Twitter
Rachel Hughes
Meeting Coordinator & Secretary
Rachel is a Senior Graphic Design and Sociology major. She is a fine artist turned graphic designer that is incessantly inspired by the city and everything in it. She also has an interest in advertising. As Meeting coordinator, Rachel takes care of booking and preparing the rooms. As secretary, she takes notes at all officer and member meetings.
Rachel is inspired by guerrilla marketing. Check out one of her favorite guerrilla marketing campaigns by Coca-Cola on YouTube!
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Kevin Jacobson
Graphic Designer
Kevin is a Senior double majoring in Graphic Design and Advertising and Public Relations. He loves participating in charity and adventure runs and also enjoys reading Zombie books, especially ones by Max Brooks. As one of the graphic designers for AdClub, Kevin designs the posters, membership forms, and all the other print media for the club.
One of his recently favored artists/illustrators is Adam Haynes.
Joel Rottier
Web Coordinator
Joel is a Senior Graphic Design major and Advertising minor. He has a passion for beautiful web design and oversized typography, as well as a kryptonite-like weakness for that minimalist fruit logo, and all products that it is found on. As web coordinator he manages the club's website and presence on the web.
Joel is inspired by all of the Apple iPod ad campaigns, specifically the nano. Being a lower-end model, he feels like the advertisments have been much more fun! The nano-chromatic campaign for example.
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Brittany Meiers
Photographer
Brittany describes herself as "clumsy and slightly awkward!" She loves advertising, media and design. She is a Senior Graphic Design major and Business Administration and Art History minor. As the photographer for the club, Brittany snaps photos of everyone and everthing, even when they're not looking!
Brittany draws inspiration from ad campaigns and design from different sources of media. She is specifically interested in the work of local agencies such as BVK & HY Connect.
Connect with Brittany: Twitter
Matthew Janzen
Social Media Coordinator
Matt is a Senior in the Journalism & Mass Communication department, studying Strategic Communication. He was born in Madison, raised in Waterloo, and became a Panther fan in Milwaukee. He once took part in a facial hair grow off, and the results were published in a local newspaper (his first contribution to society). Matt has always loved advertising, but now he is infatuated with everything that communicates strategically. As social media coordinator, Matt manages the club's presence on Twitter and Facebook.
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