Joe Hemp
Partner & Co-Creative Director

      An Adweek Creative All-star and former Chiat/Day Creative Director, Joe Hemp has created numerous award-winning commercial and print campaigns. An Iowa State Design School graduate, Joe began in advertising as an Art Director at Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis. He later came to Los Angeles where he created famous commercials for Acura including the noted "Hot Wheels" commercial.
       While at Chiat/Day, Los Angeles, he created Gold Clio, Gold One Show and Cannes Lion winning work for Nissan and was the Art Director for the Nissan "Toys" commercial-the most honored car commercial of all-time. His campaigns that launched the Nissan Maxima and Nissan Xterra are considered two of the most successful automotive introductions in the company's history-the latter winning the Grand Effie Award for the most effective campaign in America.
       In 2000, Joe joined his long time Chiat/Day creative partner, Rob Siltanen, to become a Partner and Creative Director at S&P. At S&P, Joe's work for brands such as Round Table, Gateway and EA Sports is recognized as some of the most noteworthy and effective advertising the companies have ever done.