MARK FENSKE
ADVERTISING LEGEND, COPYWRITER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR,
COMMERCIAL & VIDEO DIRECTOR, VOICE TALENT, TEACHER

After graduating from Michigan State University, Mark Fenske almost became a missionary, but “displayed a genuine lack of aptitude for sinlessness.”

Instead he went into advertising. He’s worked in a variety of agencies including Wieden + Kennedy where he ‘learned how high to aim”. In 1990, he started The Bomb Factory, an ad agency/commercial production hybrid. Mark wrote and directed Van Halen’s “Right Now” music video which won MTV’s video and director awards in 1992.

He’s directed music videos for the Indigo Girls and commercials for Coke, Rhino Records, Nike, and others. He is on the board of Creative Circus in Atlanta, and 12, the Wieden + Kennedy experimental advertising school. Mark is a faculty member at VCU Adcenter in Richmond.