Hello! I’m Dmitry Chigirin, currently a freelance creative director & copywriter. I can be known as invisible copywriter thanks to this project: invisiblecopywriter.com. And I’m also a part of Dmitry&Oleg, who got The best recommendation ever from 33 Cannes Lions winners.

Biography

Dmitry started his career when in 2009 he came to small, but awarded advertising agency Michel Mour, based in Tomsk, Siberia. He has been working there for 2 years until he created the project invisiblecopywriter.com. It helped him to get the only place for free education in Wordshop BBDO (Russian analogue of Miami Ad School) and move to Moscow.

Then he got an internship in one of the most creative European agencies Jung von Matt Hamburg. When came back, Dmitry won Young Lions Russia contest and became a representative of Russia at Cannes that year.
Being in Cannes, Dmitry and his art director Oleg got the best recommendation ever from 33 most creative people from all over the world. Later they won Gold Epica award (first Russian gold since 2008) and D&AD with this project. Dmitry got the position at Leo Burnett Moscow.

Prestigious Russian advertising magazine Sostav named Dmitry one of the 5-th most creative people of 2012 in Russia. Dmitry worked with such brands, as Audi, Subway, WWF, Greenpeace, TV Rain, Fruktovy Sad, J7, Levi's, Dom.ru, Donstroy, 7-th Continent, Sostav.ru...

Experience

2014 – present: Freelance — Creative director & copywriter
2012 – 2013: Leo Burnett Moscow — copywriter
— 2-nd place in the rating of the best Russian advertising agencies (ACAR, 2011);
— 1-st place in the rating of the best Russian advertising agencies (ACAR, 2010);
2012 – 2012: Jung von Matt Hamburg — creative intern
— 3-rd independent agency of the year (Cannes Lions, 2012);
— best independent agency of the year (Cannes Lions, 2011);
2011 — 2012: Twiga Moscow — copywriter
— 9-th place in the rating of the best Russian advertising agencies (ACAR, 2011);
— 10-th place in the rating of the best Russian advertising agencies (ACAR, 2010);
2009 — 2011: Michel Mour — copywriter
— 17-th place in the rating of the best Russian creative agencies (ACAR, 2010);
— TOP 12 regional Russian agencies (ADME, 2010);
2007 — 2008: Dart — copywriter
— 14-th place in the rating of the best Russian branding agencies (ACAR, 2008);
— 24-th place in the rating of the best Russian creative agencies (E-generator, 2006)

As a freelancer I worked for:

— Depot WPF;
— Red Keds;
— Slava;
— Ad Stars;
— Belyaev & Kim;
— Kommandor;
— Sorec.

Education

2003 — 2008: Tomsk Polytechnic University, SCSaT, specialization «Advertising services» — a graduate
2008 — 2012: Tomsk Polytechnic University, «Social Philosophy» — PhD student
2011 — 2012: Wordshop BBDO Academy, «Copywriting» — a graduate