Starting my career as a design-centric art director in the general consumer market, I’ve been fortunate enough to develop as a creative, gain invaluable production experience, and hone my leadership skills working with clients like General Motors, Mastercard, Applebee’s, Michigan Tourism and Verizon.
I’ve worked extensively in the Health & Wellness category since 2013, and have perfected the art of effectively communicating in both the HCP and DTC markets through imaginative visual storytelling. I mentor and motivate my creative teams with a hands-on collaborative approach, and manage scopes and multiple workstreams adeptly. Happy clients include Lilly, Biogen, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKlein, Merck, Neurocrine, Novartis, Pfizer, and Valeant.
Currently creative lead of the US HCP and Global work streams of an $18 million account.
Outside of work, painting is my passion: MichaelQuinlanWasHere.com
Campaign using the hotel guest card key to frame the possibilities of traveling with Loews.
Redesign of PRATTFOLIO, the Magazine of Pratt Institute.
Design of digital and print Pratt publications and materials for its students, alumni, and the public––course catalogs, invitations, fundraising, posters, events, advertising.
3 years as Applebee’s food porn Art Director
The spots that started it all. The most successful state tourism campaign in US history.
Armed with a voyeur’s propensity to observe, and a mash up of collected tastes and interests, I use words, shapes, colors, and sounds seen, said, imagined, heard and overheard in real life, film, literature, art, music, memories, dreams, and popular culture to formulate my abstract expressions.
I am drawn to the little details of life: patterns, shapes, intersections, colors. I am also fascinated by how language—with its colloquialisms, idioms, and varied meanings—shapes our everyday existence. I see language, French in particular, as itself a work of art.
I prefer working in acrylic, with bright solid colors and simple lines. Influenced by my graphic design background, I gravitate toward an arrangement of words and graphics that most impactfully tells a story in a nonverbal way. I think of my work as “talking pictures.”
My goal as an artist is to create works that are accessible and relatable. Works that invoke a smile, and as writer Thomas Merton said, “...enable us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” I was first inspired to pursue the arts after seeing Keith Haring’s subway chalk drawings. Among my influences, I am in awe of Haring's genius, as well as that of Cy Twombly, Marc Chagall, Arshille Gorky, Francis Picabia, Chaïm Soutine, Stuart Davis and Joan Miró.
See more of my work here: MichaelQuinlanWasHere.com
Marketing materials
Don't be stuffy bunny. Be fluffy bunny.
To introduce the new upscale Kroger Fresh Fare store, we paired every day products with gourmet products.
