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, creative writing, and design into her work.
Some career highlights include sending a 6,000 lb self-driving DoorDash bag across the country, normalizing giving flowers to men, writing the global tagline for Wild Turkey Bourbon, pulling off an international test drive for Audi, offering threesomes for Valentine’s Day (not that kind), 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.
__ E M P L O Y M E N T
GUT // Associate Creative Director // Los Angeles, CA // July 2023 - present
72ANDSUNNY // Senior Art Director // Los Angeles, CA // Sept 2019 - July 2023
MUH-TAY-ZIK | HOF-FER // Art Director // San Francisco, CA // Jun 2018 - Sept 2019
DUNCAN CHANNON // Art Director // San Francisco, CA // Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
LEO BURNETT // Jr. Art Director + Art Director // Chicago, IL // Oct 2013 - Oct 2017
Clients:
DoorDash, Wild Turkey, Wing Stop, See’s Candies, Zocdoc, Supercuts, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Grubhub, Tillamook, Zillow, Adobe, Audi, Staples, StubHub, Amazon Prime Video, Upwork, The California Tobacco Control Program, Allstate, Firestone, Purina, Kellogg’s, The Art Institute of Chicago.
__ A W A R D S
Cannes Lions, The One Show, D&AD, Effies, London International Awards, WARC, Lürzer's Archive, Graphis
__ N O T A D V E R T I S I N G
CHELEY CAMPS // Wrangler // Estes Park, CO // 2008 - 2011
Led groups of 14 campers + horses on trail rides and overnight pack trips in the Rocky Mountains, teaching horsemanship and wilderness skills to my kids.
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, teaching, strategizing, and inspiring my athletes to improve their skills, compete with professionalism, and most importantly have fun.
__ 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