About - Jenn Richter

Jenn Richter is a seasoned, design-driven Creative Director/Art Director based in Chicago with over a decade of agency art direction and content experience, including working in her studio driving creative client solutions.

About Me
I started my career in advertising at Leo Burnett Chicago's Department of Design; their youngest AD/Designer ever hired, at first working on Coca-Cola's "Coke Side of Life". I've studied under Paul Sahre, Stefan Sagmeister, Jan Wilker and James Victoré at The Art Directors Club & learned the ropes from some of the industy's most award-winning CD's.

Following Leo Burnett, I worked at Condé Nast and Wunderman in NYC, where I designed Levi.com and Levi's "Go Forth" campaign in partnership with Wieden+Kennedy. After moving back to Chicago, I continued freelancing at ad agencies like FCB, R/GA and VSA Partners until joining Ogilvy as Associate Creative Director, then ACD at Epsilon (Publicis), co-leading the Content Department. I have 13+ years of experience leading design/art direction & brand content, helping clients shape solutions with forward-thinking print, digital & campaigns.

In between freelancing and full-time roles, I lived in Copenhagen running an art gallery on Jægersborggade in Nørrebro while helping FØRM Portfolios to curate a Jens Risom capsule collection entitled "Risom Rooms". I love industrial design; and have been a repeat attendee of ICFF Design Week NYC and NeoCon Chicago.

Working primarily in editorial content and advertising for cpg, lifestyle and luxury brands, my work has spanned the gamut from raising brand awareness through content, building brands from the ground up, art directing campaigns, designing identity systems, packaging, and interactive experiences, to telling brand stories through the stopping power of photography and film. I've had the pleasure of working with photographers like Lance Acord and Nathan Michael, as well as post-houses like Optimus and The Mill. I'm passionate about producing big ideas—being on-set, styling visual storytelling in real time.

My work has been featured in the gallery of the Art Directors Club, recognized by Creative Review, AdWeek, AdAge, published in Communication Arts and more. Currently open to new work.

Inquiries: hello@jennrichter.com