Colleen is an associate Creative Director at GUT Los Angeles.
Since joining GUT LA as one of the original creative team members, she helped establish the agency’s west coast office by growing existing clients and winning new business, leading multiple successful and occasionally award-winning campaigns.
Although trained as an art director, Colleen enjoys contributing to projects with a broad and wholistic approach - incorporating strategy, research, writing, and design into her work.
Some career highlights include unleashing a 6,000 lb self-driving DoorDash bag across the country, selling flowers for men, pulling off an international test drive for Audi, offering threesomes for Valentine’s Day (not that kind), writing the global tagline for Wild Turkey, generating discount codes from MLS jersey numbers, launching a chicken wing for Latto, creating a card game with Amanda Burger, and paying off her student loans.
When she’s not working, she enjoys sailing, hosting bonfires with friends, smoking the occasional cigar, reading the FT (print isn’t dead!), and fly fishing.
Colleen has been referred to as an old man, and appreciates the compliment.
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GUT // Associate Creative Director // Los Angeles, CA // July 2023 - present
72ANDSUNNY // Senior Art Director // Los Angeles, CA // Sept 2019 - July 2023
Clients: Wing Stop, See’s Candies, Zocdoc, Supercuts, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Grubhub, Tillamook, Adobe
MUH-TAY-ZIK | HOF-FER // Art Director // San Francisco, CA // Jun 2018 - Sept 2019
Clients: Audi, Staples, StubHub, Amazon Prime Video
DUNCAN CHANNON // Art Director // San Francisco, CA // Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Clients: Upwork, The California Tobacco Control Program
LEO BURNETT // Jr. Art Director + Art Director // Chicago, IL // Oct 2013 - Oct 2017
Clients: Allstate, Firestone, Purina, Kellogg’s, The Art Institute of Chicago
Not advertising:
CHELEY CAMPS // Horseback Riding Wrangler // Estes Park, CO // 2008 - 2011
Led groups of 14 campers + horses on trail rides and overnight pack trips in the Rocky Mountains, teaching wilderness and horsemanship skills.
LACROSSE COACH // Head Coach, JV // Decatur High School, Decatur GA, 2012 season // Evanston Township High School, Evanston IL, 2009 season
Led two high school lacrosse teams: drilling, coaching, teaching, strategizing, organizing, and inspiring my athletes to improve their skills, compete with professionalism, and most importantly have fun.
__ A W A R D S
Cannes Lions, The One Show, D&AD, Effies, London International Awards, WARC, Lürzer's Archive, Graphis
__ E D U C A T I O N
THE CREATIVE CIRCUS // Art Direction // 2011-2013
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY // Urban Studies + Art History // 2007-2011
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY // Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation // 2010
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__ C O N T A C T
colleen.e.horne@gmail.com