J. J. Puryear

About J. J. Puryear

CEOs and Business Owners - want a respected brand. Marketing Managers - want a creative and responsive partner you can trust. Advertising Agencies - want a creative that can give great ideas under tight deadlines. I’ve developed branding for a broad range of companies for 15+ years. This includes The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Coca-Cola, Chick-fil-A, BMW, Michelin, Firehouse Subs, Costa Sunglasses, Milliken, Denny\'s, BI-LO, Verizon Wireless and DreamWorks Pictures. My work has frequently been recognized in prestigious advertising shows such as Regional and National W3 awards, The Art Directors Show, Obie, and Graphis. In 1997, I entered the business as a web designer for Orbit, a California based online travel company. After learning about a good bit about the wide world of web, I went to work in Atlanta designing for digital and traditional media. Soon I left the Atlanta traffic behind and landed at Henderson Advertising in Greenville, SC and later joined Erwin Penland in Greenville, SC (a division of Hill Holliday). In 2007, I started working as Creative Director for ZWO. My goal every day was to help turn my clients’ customers into thoughtful, involved, passionate brand advocates. After looking at the communications landscape of Greenville, my wife and I decided to start our own shop, Atticus Creative. We formed Atticus as a place where any client could sit down in a one-on-one environment and get a tenured and professional approach in building better brands. We do this by utilizing packaging, promotions, web, video and traditional advertising. Writing comedy and standup is my passion on the side. I’ve written and produced several original works for local theatre troupes and I am the two time winner of the International Amateur Ventriloquist Contest. I\'m happiest when I am working on big, audacious projects and am always looking for new opportunities.

Experience

1. President

   Atticus Creative

   Dec 2014 — Present · Greenville, SC, US

   We partner with clients to boost awareness of such brands as Classic Cookie, Battlefield Leadership, Coca-Cola, Chick-fil-A, ReWa, Milliken, BMW, Uniroyal Tires, Denny\'s, The Greenville Drive (Boston Red Sox Class A Affiliate), The Greenville Triumph, Highlands Food & Wine Festival, Monmouth University, Grace Church, Mill Village Farms and OOBE.

Education

• Unversity of Georgia

  BFA

  1991 — 1995

• The University of Georgia

  BFA

  1991 — 1996

Skills

• Brochures
• Typography
• Logo Design
• Pre-Press
• Web Design
• Creative Strategy
• Graphics
• Interactive Advertising
• Layout
• Image Manipulation
• Brand Development
• Direct Mail
• Posters
• Creative Direction
• Graphic Design
• Art Direction
• Advertising
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Branding & Identity
• Illustration
• Corporate Identity
• Concept Development