About

Currently an ACD/Copywriter @ Freelance.
Hit me up if you want to make some ads together:
daniel_deltoro@yahoo.com


TRIVIA

  • Dallas is my hometown. I have lots of stories about illegal rooster fighting in secret back yards. Since those unruly Texas days, I have lived in Brooklyn, Queens, Jersey City, Los Angeles, Boulder, and São Paulo. I now call Portland home. 

  • Graffiti was my way into the art scene.

  • Did you know you can be a nature photographer inside the Red Dead Redemption universe? Oh yeah. I’ve also been a proofer, a newspaper layout editor, a waiter, an IT guy, a grocery store bagger, a CD burner-er, a FedEx loader, an old photo restorator, a protestor, a weekly New Yorker cartoon caption contest submitter, a retoucher, a mechanical artist, a sleep walker, and a harsh critic of my own art when I sleep walked. I used to wake up to find my sketches in the toilet. 

  • When I’m not thinking about ads, and I think about ads an absurd amount of time, I work with independent voices and organizations as an editorial illustrator with a focus on politics and social justice issues. 

  • I also contribute as a design editor for Barricade, a periodical dedicated to publishing translations of linguistically and temporally diverse works of antifascist and antiauthoritarian literature.

  • At night, I invent bedtime stories for my daughter and then partner with artists from around the world to make them into real children’s books.

BLING
Applied Arts Illustration Awards – 2023
3x3 Illustration Annual No.18 – 2022
American Illustration and American Photography (AI-AP) – 2021
Applied Arts Illustration Awards – 2021
Communication Arts Illustration Annual – 2021
Ad Age A-List & Creativity Awards – 2018
Gunn 100 – 2018
WPPED Cream – 2017
D&AD Impact – 2017
D&AD – 2017
One Show – 2017
Cannes Lions – 2017
Clio – 2017
New York Festival – 2017
Effie – 2016
Clio Health – 2015
Lürzer's Archive Vol. 05 – 2015
El Ojo de Iberoamérica – 2015
Strategy Creative Report Card – 2013
ADCC – 2012
Marketing Awards – 2012
Communication Arts Advertising Annual – 2012
Bessies – 2012
Applied Arts Magazine – 2012
Lürzer's Archive 200 Best Photographers
Cannes Lions – 2010
CMYK Magazine – 2007
My favorite win was The Junior Texas Duck Stamp Competition when I was 17 years old.

EXPERIENCE
ACD @ Conill 2022 - 2024
Freelance CD @ Droga5 2021
Freelance ACD @ MUH-TAY-ZIK / HOF-FER 2021
Freelance Sr. Designer @ 72andSunny 2021
ACD @ Publicis 2019 - 2021
Freelance CW @ DCX Growth Accelerator 2019
Sr. Copywriter @ JWT 2016 - 2019
Freelance CW @ Mekanism 2016
Freelance CW @ Fred & Farid 2016
Sr. CW @ JWT 2014 - 2016
CW @ Africa 2012 - 2013
Freelance CW & AD @ Wieden+Kennedy, Sid Lee, Untitled Films, Red Urban, The Conquistadors Collective, Victors & Spoils, McCann, Giant Hydra, Venables Bell, Grupo Gallegos 2010 - 2013
AD @ Crispin Porter + Bogusky 2008 - 2010
AD @ Conill 2007
Creative Intern @ Crispin Porter + Bogusky 2007
Creative Intern @ The Richards Group 2006 - 2007

BRANDS
Toyota, Audi, Hubspot, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, Citi, Northwell Health, Black Lives Matter, Listerine, Schick, Nestlé, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Pilão Coffee, Tramontina, Coca-Cola, Pomarola, Budweiser, Brahma, ESPN, Burger King, Volkswagen, Domino's Pizza, Best Buy, Guitar Hero, Shimano, Heineken, Levi's, Del Valle, Coca-Cola, Nike, Little Trees Air Fresheners, Elmer's Sticky Out, Drake General Store, Rolling Rock, Drake General Store, Alexander Keith's, Dell, Tres Agaves Tequila, Harley Davidson, Andy Awards, Dish Network, Axe, GE, AutoTrader, Atlantis Resorts, Patron Tequila, and many more.

PRESS
Fast Company, Huffpost, TrendHunter, Adweek, Atlanta Black Star, International Business Times, Ad Age, etc.