About BlackWing Creative Branding company in Seattle, United States
Welcome to BlackWing Creative. Named by Advertising Age as one of the top B2B agencies in the U.S. for seven straight years. We produce audaciously effective marketing for some of the worlds top brands. Our offices are located in the twin pulses of the technology world: Seattle and San Francisco.
Meet some of the BlackWing team.
What you do at BlackWing: Make Noise. Get Noticed.
Hometown: North Woods.
What you do for fun: Make holes.
Music you like: Percussion.
Favorite food: Termites.
Special expertise: Entomology. Forestry. Pneumatics.
Why you get out of bed and come to work: ’Chicks dig woodpeckers.’
What you do at BlackWing: Help bring amazing ideas to life.
Hometown: Kansas City KS.
What you do for fun: Shoot photos play with my kids ride motorcycles cheer on the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas Jayhawks.
Most interesting thing youve ever done: Wrestle a Bengal tiger.
Music you like: J-Pop Punk and Robot Music.
Favorite authors: Milan Kundera Kurt Vonnegut Ray Bradbury Steven Brust George R. R. Martin China Mieville Neil Gaiman.
What gets you out of bed in the morning: I get paid to learn interesting things and be creative. What a gig!
What you do at BlackWing: Its my job to ensure our team delivers the best possible work — and business results — for my clients.
What you do for fun: Mini golf snow skiing cribbage casino gambling walking my 125-pound bull mastiff puppy Gracie.
Music you like: Oldies Janis Joplin Jack Johnson Guns N Roses old country.
What gets me out of bed in the morning: The pace the challenge being around creative minds.
Inspiration: ’The more you like yourself the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique.’ — Walt Disney.
Favorite creative: Ragu – ’Long Day of Childhood.’
What you do at BlackWing: Buy camera stuff.
Most interesting thing youve ever done: Trip to Moscow in 1989 Gorbachev era.
Music you like: Wings. What else is there?
What youre passionate about: Travel (mostly Europe) two grandkids church and charity groups including sponsored kids in Rwanda and India.
What you like most about our business/your job: The blend of art and technology interesting variety always changing/never dull.
Famous person you look like: Jack Bauer. Exactly.
Inspiration: Don VanWyck my 8th-grade art teacher. His enthusiasm about art was contagious.
Favorite quote: ’I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.’ – Douglas Adams
What you do at BlackWing: Design Director (which means I Project Manage/Design/Produce and keep jobs flowing until they are fully baked and out the door).
Hometown: Lawrence KS! Go Jayhawks!
Most interesting thing you have ever done: Committed to having children. It was no longer about me anymore and continues to always be interesting.
Favorite author: Rhonda Byrne.
Favorite movie(s): BoyHood blew me away (was filmed over 12 years). LOVE Patrica Arquette.
Famous person you look like: My daughters friend told me I that I look like Hillary Duff the other day. Maybe a mix of Hillary and Patrica Arquette. LOL
Special expertise: Interior Design Gold Leaf (Gilding) and anything I put my focus on.
Hobbies: Home improvement pilates riding my motorcycle painting and cooking.
What you do at BlackWing: I help conceptualize and execute designs.
Hometown: Oakland CA.
What you do for fun: Family time with my amazing twins!
Most interesting thing youve ever done: Im pretty boring.
Music you like: Hip-hop.
Favorite movies: Early 90s horror flicks.
Favorite book: Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko.
Famous person you look like: Comedian Aziz Ansari.
Inspiration: My parents; they are refugees of Cambodia and started a new life here in America.
Inspirational words: ’Every child is an artist the problem is staying an artist when you grow up’ – Pablo Picasso.
What you do at BlackWing: Responsible for overall agency direction and creative output.
Hometown: Hermosa Beach CA.
Most interesting place visited: Zambia Africa.
Fun: Cycling Pacific Ocean waves fly fishing cribbage books darts Washington Reds.
What you like most about our business: The never-abating fascination of working with a variety of people in a diversity of businesses.
What gets you out of bed: Asphalt-black coffee.
Favorite Authors: Ivan Doig Hunter S. Thompson David Sedaris Ray Bradbury Cormac McCarthy.
Inspirational quote: ’Seize this very moment — Boldness has genius power and magic in it.’ — Goethe.
Favorite creative: Google and Arcade Fire. ’The Wilderness Downtown.’
What you do at BlackWing: Im an account director in our Bay Area office.
Hometown: Oregon Ohio.
Music you like: Folk Alternative 80s.
Most interesting thing you have ever done: Ran the Boston Marathon.
Favorite author: Tom Robbins.
Favorite movie(s): Breakfast Club Dirty Dancing The Martian.
Famous person you look like: Amy Adams (so Ive been told but I dont see it!).
Special expertise: Carrot cake maker.
Hobbies: Running hiking skiing volleyball.
Guilty pleasure: Right now watching Scandal.
What you do at BlackWing: Everything and anything digital.
Special expertise: WordPress guru.
What you do for fun: Little League baseball coaching craft brew tasting.
Most interesting thing youve ever done: Lived in Copenhagen for 5 weeks in 2006 with my wife and 2 young boys.
Other skills outside work: Home improvement technology guru.
Music you like: Anything but country.
Favorite movie: ’Shawshank Redemption.’
Hobbies: Facebook. Technology exploration.
What you like most about your job: The team environment.
Famous person you look like: Stephen Colbert.
Inspiration: ’One more thing.’ — Steve Jobs.
Hometown: Tacoma WA.
After work fun: Theatre spa time love doing VO on old-time radio shows.
Music you like: Anything with a good beat.
Food you like: Indian Vietnamese.
What youre passionate about: Animal rights.
Famous person you look like: Kristen Vangsness (so I am told).
Words to live by: ’Whats done cannot be undone.’ – Shakespeare Lady McBeth Act 5 scene 1 68.
How you picked the creative industry to work in: I was truly inspired in high school when I joined the yearbook committee.
Guilty pleasure: Binge watching.
Your role at BlackWing: Listener critical-thinker problem-solver firefighter occasional miracle worker.
Music: Pink Floyd hip-hop 90s grunge Pink Floyd classical 80s pop Pink Floyd blues indie rock and Pink Floyd.
What youre passionate about: Im a long-time long-suffering Seattle sports fan.
Hobbies: None Im a parent.
What you like most about our business/your job: The challenge of a really good marketing problem and collaborating with great people to find a solution.
Creative inspiration: I find inspiration everywhere. Theres an explosion of incredible art film design and music online — you just need to know where to look.
What you do at BlackWing: Copy of every flavor imaginable.
Hometown: Seattle WA.
Favorite Movie: ’Casablanca’
Music: Polka.
Food: Vegan.
What youre passionate about: Football (not the American variety).
Hobbies: Hiking coaching sports.
What gets you out of bed in the morning: Unraveling complex thorny technical-writing challenges.
Inspiration: My children.
What I do: Collect money dole out money.
Hometown: Howard Beach NY.
Favorite music: Classical classic rock.
Favorite Book: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
Inspiration: ’No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.’ — Albert Einstein.
Favorite Ad of all time: Mean Joe Green Coca Cola Superbowl Ad.
What you do at BlackWing: Creative production internal IT (’Willem my mac is so slow’).
Hometown: Amsterdam.
What you do for fun: Bike riding urban exploration and stair hiking.
Most interesting thing youve ever done: Spent a summer in a Spanish love commune.
Music you like: Downbeat groove dub reggae.
What youre passionate about: Common sense.
What you like most about your job: The smell of an early morning crisis followed by calm analysis and eventually an elegant solution.
Favorite creative: ’A dramatic surprise on a quiet square’ – TNT Television.
What you do at BlackWing: Client services. Daily communication with clients in a wide range of industries from espionage to power plants to healthcare.
Hometown: Nashville TN.
Most interesting thing youve ever done: Lived in Vienna Austria.
Other skills outside work: Interior design baking.
Favorite food: Fried anything.
Famous person you look like: Ive been told Julia Roberts.
Inspiration: No question – my mom. She raised four kids while working full time in a very demanding position. It sounds so cliche but she is my support system and role model.
BlackWing specializes in the following:
Brand. Communicating clear differentiated positioning is usually a big sticky muddled mess for business-to-business organizations. We can help you package and tell your story clearly. And well.
Lead Generation. We create high-performing awareness and lead generation campaigns that get CMOs giddy and sales teams amped.
Sales Enablement. No tepid sleep-inducing collateral here. You get content that engages and educates in a variety of mediums.
The worlds top B2B and technology companies choose BlackWing Creative.
Pileated woodpeckers are persistent and tenacious. Noisy. Clamorous. Disruptive. (Ours is named Spike). They leave a big mark. All tenets of good marketing. Hence the BlackWing Creative tagline ’Make noise. Get noticed.’
