Laura Holmes McCarthy

Advertising and Branding
Creative Direction
  1. CareerBuilder
  2. T-Mobile x Netflix: Bridgerton
  3. FACTOR_
  4. Capital One Technology “That’s How We Stack”
  5. Visa “Money is Changing” Y1
  6. Visa “Money is Changing” Y2
  7. Cider
  8. D’Addario NYXL
  9. RedDrop
  10. Evans UV1
  11. Tide “Break the Rules of Wearing White (with Betty White)”
  12. Tide “Uniforms”
  13. Visa Tap To Pay
  14. El Camino Travel
  15. Cleo AI
  16. Resumé
  17. Additional Clients
  18. About Me

Ceramics
Portfolio + Practice
  1. Form + Dysfunction (2024)
  2. The Beck (2023) 
  3. Idle Haus (2024)
  4. Raw Matter (2022)
  5. Deoptimization (2022)
  6. Edition for Mara Hoffman NYC (2022)
  7. Rescue Cats
  8. Instagram
  9. Shop
  10. CV

Laura Holmes McCarthy —
Info
  1. Strategically-minded Executive Creative Director with a generative, experimental, and empathetic creative philosophy.
  2. Copywriter by trade, with an expanded focus on brand architecture, brand voice and guidance, and holistic full-funnel advertising approaches.
  3. Ceramic artist with an active practice in downstate NY.

Mark

8. Evans UV1 Drumheads | Launch Campaign + Social Content






Role Brand Creative Director
Agency D’Addario In House 

          Drummers are some of the most opinionated musicians in the world--and they rarely agree with each other about the fundamentals. But when our team at D’Addario did a test run of our new Evans UV1 drumheads with a focus group of drummers, the opinions were shockingly, overwhelmingly aligned that they were the best they’d ever played. With this simple insight in mind, we launched a social and print campaign designed to do a little gentle trolling, throwing our most controversial drum opinions out to the pack and watching them rip everyone else’s POV to shreds. As a result, we made a convincing argument for just how good these new heads actually were.






“This campaign may be the best thing coming out of the industry right now.” Personal email from the Editor of Drum! Magazine, the industry’s leading publication.