Creative Director
+Art Director

Kristine is a Group Creative Director at McCann New York and based in Boston, MA.

She has 15+ years of advertising agency experience working on well-known brands like Nike, Microsoft, Prudential, and Verizon.

Work

The Pen To Right History

Last Prisoner Project


Created a pen that signed over 175,000 pardons for cannabis injustice - the largest state-level pardon in U.S. history.


The Beta Baby Bonus

Prudential

Redefined what it means to start saving for retirement early by investing $1 Billion in future value towards Generation Beta’s retirement the day they were born.


Cecifoot Olympic Uniforms

Puma x Two Blind Brothers

Designed the uniforms for France’s Blind Football Paralympic team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.


There’s a Lesson Here

Prudential

Fought financial disinformation on social media with comedians.


Ticket to Tokyo

Microsoft

Sent Olympics mega fans to Toyko when the 2020 Games were shut down in the pandemic.


Made Up Family

Verizon

Showed how strange it would be if every family member were exactly the same.


Flash Forward

Prudential

Made an AI photobooth to show people what they’d look like thriving in retirement.


Closer to What You Love

Microsoft

Featured Gen Z trailblazers harnessing Windows 11 to shape the future on their terms.


Returns

TD Ameritrade

Used an NFL partnership to showcase how players and fans measure the return on their investment in the game.


A Network You Can Count On

Verizon

Told the world it’s not the wireless plan, it’s the wireless network, that matters.

Clients

Nike
Microsoft
Prudential
Verizon
Last Prisoner Project

TD Ameritrade
Green Mountain Coffee
Walmart
Keurig
Chandon

SAS
Dr Pepper
Dos Equis
Two Blind Brothers
Puma

About

CV

2022 - Present

SVP Group Creative Director
McCann | New York, NY

2017 - 2022

VP Creative Director
McCann | New York, NY

2015 - 2017

Associate Creative Director
Havas | New York, NY

2014 - 2015

Senior Art Director
Code and Theory | New York, NY


2010 - 2014

Visual Designer
R/GA | New York, NY

Contact

kristine.salm.baker@gmail.com

Education

2010

The Creative Circus
Art Direction
Atlanta, GA

2008

The University of Virginia
McIntire School of Commerce
Charlottesville, VA