Sam Hendricks
As a kid, I was always drawing and making books and little flip books out of post-it note pads. In middle school, I created my first website—a site dedicated to all aspects of the popular Nintendo 64 game, Goldeneye. Little did I know there was a future in my hobbies.
I double-majored in Graphic Design and Illustration at the University of Kansas, From my sophomore year on, I landed a kind of ‘perma-internship’ at my first agency in Kansas City, Nicholson Kovac (now closed, unfortunately). It was a great way to get some early experience in the agency world. After graduating, I became an art director at VML and spent a little over 2 years there before returning to NK. After a brief stint, I found my way back.
I transferred to the New York City office and spent a little over 6 years there helping the office grow and working on brands ranging from small start-ups, B2B, tech, to large consumer packaged goods. At the end of my time there I was lead on the Chevron social business as it was being moved to our west coast office. At the time my wife and I had been talking about heading for more family-friendly pastures so I took the opportunity to help transition that business out west.
And presently, I’ve been immersed in coffee, grunge, and the gray rainy Seattle days—trading in the concrete jungle of NYC for mountains and evergreen trees and the salish sea as my source of inspiration.
Now, as an Associate Creative Director, I love building rapport with clients, mentoring, and leading campaign creative from concept to execution. I’m multi-disciplinary, comfortable with design, motion graphics, and really learning whatever skill would help elevate whatever we’re working on. Outside of work, I draw, paint, game, and run—at least when I’m not chasing my kids around. I will take art commissions, time permitting. If you would like to use my contact form, we can chat. I also offer some prints through Society 6 as well.