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Matt Smith

Matt Smith is the Founder of Smith Gifford, with close to 40 years’ experience as a creative and agency leader at the nation’s top agencies. He's won literally every award out there, Cannes, Clios, On

Agency

By Matt Smith For a long time I’ve been told that, as a boutique ad agency that creates work that strives for emotional

Jul 7, 2019
OH, THAT’S GOOD: Two Sides of the Same Mind; Making Science and Creative Work Together
Oh, That's Good

By Matt Smith In my never-ending quest to find goodness in all the nooks and crannies of our wonderful region, I was recently

Jun 14, 2019
OH, THAT’S GOOD: Infectious Work for Montgomery County’s Bio Business
Oh, That's Good

By Matt Smith Summer is fast upon us, and you might have noticed that over the past two weeks I haven’t written a

Jun 3, 2019
Oh, That’s Good: Give Me (and Yourself) a Break
Oh, That's Good

By Matt Smith Since I started this column back in January, my goal has been to find and honor great creative work being done

May 13, 2019
Oh, That’s Good: Memo to Creatives: Get Out of Your Cubicles and Into the Theater
Agency

By Matt Smith In January of this year, Capitol Communicator and I launched my weekly “Oh, That’s Good” column, in which I identify

May 6, 2019
I Thought I was Having a Heart Attack on Stage
Agency

By Matt Smith One of the unique aspects of our creative community here in the Mid-Atlantic region is that we do more work

Apr 29, 2019
Oh, That’s Good: Political Ads Done Right
Events

By Matt Smith Regular readers of this column know that my goal is to identify and praise the great creative work emanating from all

Apr 22, 2019
Oh, That’s Good: On April 26, Watch Me Praise My Competition in Person (and Possibly Embarrass Myself at the Same Time)
Agency

By Matt Smith It’s extremely difficult to craft meaningful, impactful and engaging advertising when you don’t have an identifiable product or service

Apr 15, 2019
Oh That’s Good: No “There” There? No Problem
Agency

By Matt Smith If you want to find out just how great an agency really is, take a close look at the work they

Apr 8, 2019
Oh, That’s Good: Serious Issues, Handled with Care
Advertising

By Matt Smith Last week I wrote about some great work from agencies that won ADDY awards at the recent awards gala for the

Apr 1, 2019
Oh That’s Good: D.C. ADDYs Show Depth of Regional Talent
Oh, That's Good

By Matt Smith When I read the word “website”, I usually envision some unimaginative, boring sort of template that is more driven by a

Mar 25, 2019
Oh, That’s Good: Devil Worship
Agency

By Matt Smith Today we go back to the Kentucky Derby to show off some really smart, good work by our pals at Viget,

Mar 11, 2019
Oh That’s Good: Johnny Weir’s Stallion. Silly, But Very Good
Agency

By Matt Smith When I started this ” Oh, That’s Good” series, my primary goal was to feature individual examples of good work that

Feb 11, 2019
Oh, That’s Good: A Very, Very, Very Cool Agency
People

By Matt Smith Before I introduce this week’s batch of good work in the metro D.C. area, I want to take a

Feb 5, 2019
Meet Cade Martin – Photographer Extraordinaire
Oh, That's Good

By Matt Smith My first two columns in this series focused on what could be categorized as traditional advertising. But I think everyone would

Jan 30, 2019
And the Winner in the Best of Print/Direct Mail Category is …. Nancy Pelosi
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