MAXINE HESS
COPYWRITER | CREATIVE | UX WRITER | COPY LEAD | BERLIN
0172 294 5320
ABOUT ME
A head full of noise, fingers full of poise
The thing with writing, is that it's better than talking. Talking is hard. Writing is easy. You can imagine things, dramatise things, edit things. It suits me. And we're living in a world where writing is becoming the way we talk to each other. That suits me too. I don't know exactly why I'm a writer and someone else is not. but people have been paying me to do this for a while now.
A KIND OF CV
SOME COMPANIES I'VE WRITTEN FOR
Volkswagen, BBC, Orange, Chevrolet, BT, Procter & Gamble (Lenor, Fairy, Daz, Pampers, Flash, Febreze), Royal Mail, DHL, The European Commission, UK Trade and Investment, Cisco, Nortel, Hitachi, HP, Travelport, Zipcar
AGENCIES I'VE WORKED FOR
Proximity London, The Crocodile, Burson Marsteller, Media Consulta, WM Group
BERLIN-BASED COMPANIES I'VE WRITTEN FOR
9flats, Grover, FLIO, AppBounty, iLove, PaymentWall, Wishbone Events
PLACES I'VE LIVED
Dublin, London, Winchester, Southampton, Amersham, Dublin, Chicago, Maryland, Japan, Berlin
JOBS I'VE DONE THAT I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE
Supervising road tarmacking, designing gantries, packing bovine testing kits,
assessing concrete cracks, waitressing at Planet Hollywood, teaching English to Japanese students,
selling T-shirts to American tourists
MUSIC THAT HELPS ME WRITE
Cassius, Dustin O'Halloran, Lotte Kestner, Too Many DJs, Lisa Hannigan, Noze, Rone,
Chopin, Hauschka, Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds, Nina Simone
SOMETHING I'VE NEVER TOLD ANYONE
When I was eight, I won a Lego colouring-in competition, and got a £15 pound voucher
and my picture in the paper. My mum coloured it in.
