Kevin Amter's career began in New York City as a Junior Art Director at JWT working for author James Patterson. He was featured in Ad Age's Creativity magazine multiple times and won numerous awards for his print work on Daewoo and Olympic television campaigns for Kodak. Kevin then moved to Messner Veter Berger Cary Schmetterer working on New Balance, Volvo and MCI. He soon became the first Art Director hired at Fallon New York, where he helped build the creative outpost into a $265 Million full-service agency working on McDonalds, BMW, Georgia Pacific, United, Miller Lite, and Nikon. Kevin went on to work for renowned creative agencies producing campaigns for: Absolut, Miller Lite, American Express, UPS International, ESPN International, The New York Times, CITI, Microsoft Xbox and T-Mobile among others.
Kevin's work has been featured in every major and minor award show globally including: Addy's, Effies, Ace, Clios, The Show, Communication Arts, AIGA, Creative Anarchy, Print, FMA, One Show, D&AD, Lions and the MOMA's permanent collection. His American Express "My life. My card." print campaign was named Campaign of the Decade by the readers of Adweek. His T-Mobile launch spot is ranked a #1 Viral hit by Ad Age. He was named to Brand Republic’s BR 200 list of the industries top Social Media influencers and launched the social network Advertising Freelance with 55,000 active members. Kevin has been interviewed by Adweek magazine multiple times and was one of four creatives profiled in Graphis's International Advertising Award Annual. He has lectured at a half dozen Universities and wrote the first book on freelancing called "Minds For Rent"® which is available on Amazon.
Today Kevin is the Executive Creative Director of Amter Studio which was named "Best Creative Studio" for 2023 by New World Report software and technology awards. Kevin also freelances directly for clients, building their brands and internal creative teams along an agency model. A holistic brand approach vs. a tactically segmented one typically offered within the industry.