LAWRENCE MELILLI
CREATIVE DIRECTOR + ART DIRECTOR
PORTLAND, OREGON USA
EMMY + 2x CANNES GRAND PRIX WINNER
®© SELECTED WORK, 2025
Lawrence Melilli is a Freelance Creative Director + Art Director, formerly of Wieden+Kennedy Portland
Hi, I’m Lawrence Melilli, an Art and Creative Director in Portland, Oregon where I spent 11 ½ years at Wieden+Kennedy. I’m responsible for this Cannes Grand Prix-winning campaign for Clash of Clans, this musical opus about death for Life360,re-launched their brand with work like this series of traumatic family events, crushed a man beneath a fridge and made this moral inditement of your shitty family. Before that I ran Wieden+Kennedy’s legendary KFC account and made work like this, this, this, and this as well as co-created the rotating Colonels campaign. I’ve made award winning and non-award winning work for Old Spice, Nike’s Jordan Brand, Fox Sports, Trolli, and a bunch of other things I’m proud of, but this is getting really long so here they all are below.
001.
2023
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
002.
2025
Alto, NY
003.
2018
Wieden+Kennedy, NY
004.
2019
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
005.
2016
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
CV
(04 - 25)
2024-present
Freelance
2019-2024
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
2016-2019
Wieden+Kennedy, New York
2013-2016
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
2010-2013
BBDO, New York
2004-2010
Mother, New York
009.
2026
Alto , New York
010.
2016
Wieden+Kennedy, NY
011.
2024
Alto, New York
012.
2018
Wieden+Kennedy, NY
013.
2020
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
014.
2019
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
015.
2022
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
016.
2016
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
017.
2024
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
018.
2016
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
019.
2019
Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
020.
2015
Wieden+Kennedy, NY
(04 - 25)
Shiny Things & Cultural Recognition
Emmy
Cannes Lion Grand Prix / Cannes Lion Grand Prix
Cannes Lion Gold
Cannes Lion Silver / Cannes Lion Silver
Cannes Lion Bronze / Cannes Lion Bronze / Cannes Lion Bronze/ Cannes Lion Bronze/ Cannes Lion Bronze
Cannes Lions Titanium Shortlist
Cannes Lion Shortlist (8x)
One Show Best of Discipline (Grand Prix)
One Show Gold / One Show Gold / One Show Gold / One Show Gold / One Show Gold
One Show Silver / One Show Silver / One Show Silver
One Show Bronze / One Show Bronze / One Show Bronze / One Show Bronze /
One Show Bronze
One Show Penta Pencil Old Spice
D&AD Graphite / D&AD Graphite / D&AD Graphite / D&AD Graphite
D&AD Wood
D&AD In Book
Ciclope Gold / Ciclope Gold
Ciclope Silver / Ciclope Silver
Ciclope Bronze
Webby Winner: Documentary
Webby Nominee (5x)
Grand Clio Film
Grand Entertainment Clio Gaming
Grand Entertainment Clio Original Content
Grand Entertainment Clio Television/Streaming: Branded Content
Clio Gold / Clio Gold
Entertainment Clio Gold
Clio Silver
Sports Clio Silver (7x)
Creativity Best Campaigns of the Decade: KFC
Andy Gold / Andy Gold
Andy Silver
Creativity Pick Of The Day (12x)
Adweek Ad Of The Day (5x)
and my work has contributed to multiple Agency of the Year awards including W+K Portland & W+K New York (9x), BBDO and Mother.
+ My work has been referenced, written about or featured in cultural outposts including, but not limited to Saturday Night Live / Kim Kardashian’s Instagram / The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon / Late Night with Seth Meyers / The Atlantic / The New York Times / The New Yorker / New York Magazine / Good Morning America / People / Us Weekly / Entertainment Weekly / PBS / The Los Angeles Times / Vice / Variety / The Guardian / The Daily Mail / CNN / The Wall Street Journal / Elle / Entertainment Weekly / Paper / Time Magazine / Fast Company / ABC News / Sports Illustrated / ESPN / Esquire / Complex / Hypebeast / XXL
