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Weber Shandwick (Chicago)
Creative Director | 2026 - Present

Freelance Creative Director (Remote)
2024 - Present

The Kitchen (Chicago)
ACD ART | 2023 - 2026

FCB (Chicago)
Senior AD | 2022-2023

Planet Propaganda (Madison)
Senior AD | 2021-2022

mcgarrybowen (Chicago)
Art Director | 2020-2021
Junior AD | 2018-2020

MRM//McCann (Detroit)
Junior AD | Summer 2017
Intern | Summer 2016

Midcoast (Detroit)
Production Assistant
2014-2016

Hello,

My name is Maxwell Franklin. I like to create things.

I’ve been incredibly fortunate to make a career out of coming up with ideas that, on paper, probably shouldn’t work. The weirder or more ridiculous they sound at first, the more I usually want to figure out if there’s actually something there.

Along the way, I’ve gotten to work on some award-winning projects and help build the foundation of one of the industry’s most highly regarded in-house agencies, Kraft Heinz’s The Kitchen.

I like making things people actually want to pay attention to, which I’ve found usually means trying not to make them feel too much like advertising.

When I’m not working, I’m usually painting, obsessing over mid-century furniture, or finding new ways to justify my eBay/Facebook Marketplace habits.

If you’re here, I hope you enjoy the work. Alternatively, you might be here to purchase the ad unit on my homepage, in which case, you have great taste.

Either way, feel free to reach out. We can talk shop, art, or negotiate a very reasonable CPM.

Cheers.

LinkedIn

Maxwell.Franklin95@gmail.com

586.295.7362

*I am a non-commercial entity and have never profited from anything on this website - Some content is for proof of concept only.