Michael Pitzer, LLC

Shit happens. Brands don't.

That's why Pitzer Advertising & Design works exclusively with entrepreneurs and business owners to develop the most creative visual communications and marketing strategies. Our work helps our clients build strong brand identities that connect at an emotional level with their customers.

www.PitzerAdvertising.com

Our pitch is to help you pitch.

With an 87% success rate at winning new business, the presentation concepts generated by The Design Factory West can give your ad agency or design firm the advantage you need to open the doors to a potenial client. Closing the deal — well, we can help your team with that too.

www.DesignFactory.ws

Advertising's great. But get a life.

This website houses the award-winning sign photography of Michael Pitzer, along with his historical work in black and white architectural detail photography, graphic illustration, and wire sculpture.

www.MPitzer.com

We're putting the magic back in markers.

The problem with many concepts presented to clients today is that there is no magic in the comp. The excessive use of stock photos and hours of laborious photoshop retouching has seriously underminded the agencies credentials for creating something truly magical and unique from nothing. If you can imagine it, or your client needs to see it first, MarkComps.com can create it on paper.

www.MarkerComps.com

If you want work, write.

I take very complex, hard to understand products and services, and reduce them down to the simplest form of communications possible. Words and pictures. That's how it works.

www.Great-Copy.com

#1 Free Jewelry Template on Google

This is my "Screw You" website. When I couldn't get an interview as a Creative Director in the didgital world, I taught myself html, css and php. Less than a year later, in October 2009, the websites I designed and coded became the number one free websites in the world. Yes, I said the "World!"

So basically it comes down to this, HR software used for scanning keywords in the résumés of a creative candidate will never be able to tell the difference between a person with talent and one with a key word-tuned résumé.

Free Website Templates at www.MichaelPitzer.com

#1 Free Drinks Website Template on Google

Okay, to be honest with you, I'm not a really big fan of HR search software based on the parameters one person enters to skim through several hundred résumés in hopes of finding the best candidate. My experience has been that more times then not, the best candidate is one that has absolutely no experience in a praticular category. They just have pure talent.

As I said about my "jewelry" website, I'd never done that before. Some people would say it was a fluke. But when I did the same thing again, in the same year, for "mixed drinks", (Yes the number one free website in the world!) come on — that's talent.

Great design talent doesn't always translate to a written résumé. But, a person with exceptional creativity, will consistently produce great design regadles of old media, new media, or emerging media.