About Us

Pocket Hercules has been independent from day one. This allows us complete freedom to build an environment that fosters collaboration and imagination. No walls-brainstorming sessions. Direct relationships with clients, where nothing gets lost in translation. Wide open possibilities that lead to ideas that surprise, delight, and generate brand momentum.

HERE'S WHAT WE DO

Branding Building & Brand Creation
Print & Broadcast Advertising
Design & Identity
Research & Planning
Public Relations & Branded Content
Social Media Content & Management
Digital Advertising
Web Design & Development

Creative Director, Art & Design

Jason Smith

Creative Director, Copywriting

Tom Camp

VP, Public Relations & Branded Content

Stephen Dupont

Head of Security

Hercules

Over the past decade as an art director, Jason created campaigns for Coca-Cola, Johnson Outboards, Stratos Bass Boats, Javelin Boats, Caribou Coffee, A.G. Edwards, American Standard, Polaris and Harley-Davidson – the account Jason took over as senior art director in just two short years into the ad business. In 2001, Jason won the Kelly’s Grand Prize ($100,000) for a Harley-Davidson print campaign before he was thirty years old. Jason’s work has been featured in most of the award books around the world, including: Communication Arts, The One Show, Print, Archive, The Addys, The Effies and D&AD.

After graduating from the University of North Carolina, Tom drove to New York where he couldn’t find a parking place but did land a job as a copywriter at Scali, McCabe Sloves. Next stop was Los Angeles where he wrote award-winning anti-smoking TV commercials for the California Department of Health Services. Then, Tom found his true home in the enthusiast culture at Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis where he worked for 12 years as a writer and creative director on some of the country’s most righteous brands: Harley-Davidson, Schwinn, IKEA, A.G. Edwards, Motorola and Salomon.

For more than 20 years, Stephen has developed award-winning communications campaigns for a number of well-known brands representing a range of industries, from fishing and financial services to industrial equipment and medical tech devices. He has launched start-ups, ignited brand awareness for Fortune 500 companies, and handled corporate communication matters involving mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, turnarounds and crisis situations (identity theft, bomb threats, regulatory investigations, etc.). An accredited PR professional, Stephen served as the 2001 president of the PRSA Minnesota and his work has been honored with three Silver Anvil awards, the highest award in the PR industry.

Meet our Head of Security at Pocket Hercules: Hercules. (You’d think our team of award-winning writers could’ve done a little better job at naming him than that, but, as they say, low-hanging fruit…)

Our group of busy creative minds needs someone to hold the fort down, and that’s this here fella’s favorite job. But don’t let him scare you out the door. As you can see, he’s been all brains and no brawn since he relocated to the mount. Still, he’s got that Mona Lisa stare that strips the fat of a brand right down to its solid bones and builds it right back up again with lean muscle. We’d argue he does that job quite nicely.

Legend has it that if you look him in the eye, you see the ghost of boring ads’ past. Creepy.