Jared Kozel

About Jared Kozel

| IG:@jared.kozelHonors: Adweek Top 100 Creative Talent, Top 40 under 40 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Adweek.com\'s \"best football ad ever\", 4x juror for Effie Awards (National), 6x juror for Shorty Awards, Numerous Adweek.com’s Editor Picks Of The Week, 2x Official Guinness Book of World Record Titles for both World\'s Smallest and World\'s Largest Advertisement, and Art Directors Club Top 100 Design Graduate.Awards: Cannes, Clios, Effies, Epica Design, Webby, Digiday, Shorty Best In Social Awards, National Addys including Best Art Direction, Cinematography, best use of technology, and local Addys Best In Show in San Francisco, New York City and Atlanta. Digiday finalist for social brand of the year and social media team of the year, Communication Arts Typography and Interactive Awards. FWA sites of the day.Press: Good Morning America, USA Today, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, New York Times, Huffington Post, Rollingstone, The Daily Beast, ABC, NBC, FOX, CNET, Daily Mail UK, People, US Magazine, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, E, TMZ, Ad Age, Adweek, Adfreak, Le Book, Luerzers Int’l Archive, Thrillist, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engaget, LifeHacker, Delish, Art Directors Club, Creativity Online, Communication Arts, Little Black Book, Muse, PR Week, AdsOfTheWorld, twice in the Guinness Book of World Records, and in an actual university advertising textbook.Clients: Amazon, Starbucks, Disney, Delta Airlines, American Express, The Coca-Cola Company, Fanta, Sprite, Gold Peak Tea, UPS, Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi, VW, Shell Recharge, Verizon, The North Face, Comcast, NFL, Whole Foods, Walmart, QVC, Life360, Lenovo, Microsoft, Yahoo, NBC, Arby\'s, Chick-fil-A, Panda Express, Church\'s Chicken, TGI Fridays, Hard Rock Cafe, Ruth\'s Chris Steakhouse, Meineke, Maaco, Take 5, Wells Fargo, BB & T, Milk-Bone, Kibbles \'n Bits, Purina, Dog Chow, Beneful, Rachel Ray Nutrish, Ocean Spray, Listerine, Smuckers, Hellmann\'s Mayonnaise, United States Marines Corps, United Nations, Amnesty International, World Wildlife Fund, American Cancer Society and more.Member: Publicis North American Creative Council, Creative Circus Advisory Board, Forbes Agency Council, Shorty Awards Real-Time Academy, Top 20 under 20 Georgia Youth Leaders Association, The One Club Bootcamp.

Experience

1. Chief Creative Officer, Co-founder

   Super Nice

   Jan 2025 — Present

   A new independent creative advertising agency and content studio, founded to prove what\'s possible when empathy, boldness, and loyalty lead. A fun place to do big things™

Education

• The University of New Mexico

  BFA, Communications & Journalism

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  semester exchange program, Graphic Design & Printmaking

• Academy of Art University

  MFA, Advertising: Art Direction

• Ball State University

  semester exchange program (2), Creative Advertising & Studio Art

Skills

• Flash
• Creative Strategy
• Art
• Adobe Photoshop
• Strategy
• Information Architecture
• Art Direction
• User Interface Design
• Online Advertising
• Brand Development
• Editing
• Social Media
• Digital Media
• Illustrator
• After Effects
• Interactive Advertising
• Indesign
• Video
• Graphic Design
• Branding
• Social Media Marketing
• Interaction Design
• Concept Development
• Creative Direction
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Typography
• Digital Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Video Editing
• Online Marketing
• Final Cut Pro
• Copywriting
• Web Design
• Marketing
• Integrated Marketing
• Television
• Corporate Identity
• Adobe Illustrator
• User Experience
• Videography