Client Spotlight

Michael Hoff, Mullen: VP, Group Creative Director

One of Pittsburgh's best creative directors and writers, it is always a bright spot in our week when Mike shows up for the session. The consistent high quality of work aside, it is guaranteed to be a good time with allot of laughs. Over the past couple of years we've worked with Mike on projects ranging from Highmark to Duquesne University. After he co-hosted last years Addy's we might have guessed that there'd be no talking to him, being a star now and all... But he has remained reasonably humble, and sober, even with all of the recent attention.

So, in order to keep things on a serious note here we prepared some questions for mike:

MSS: What are your favorite things to work on?
MH: What? Who the… How did you get in here?

MSS: When did you get started in the business?
MH: Have you no respect for privacy, sir? I ask you, what is this world coming to when a man can’t sit in the water closet and read Prisoner of Azkaban in peace?

MSS: What are some of your awards?
MH: Now see here, I don’t like what you’re implying. I’ve been completely sober for the better part of this afternoon.

MSS: Why do you work with Market Street Sound?
MH: Oh, so that’s what this is all about, is it? Look, I’ll tell you the same thing I told the constable. I don’t know what happened to that poor transvestite, and no one could ever prove that that was my arc welder.

MSS: You’ve worked with Rob and Dan quite a bit, what’s that experience been like.
MH: Wait a minute. Is that my Reuben? I was saving that for lunch tomorrow, you arse! I won that in a Scrabble game! Hey… HEY! You turn that light back on, you lump!

MSS: Well, I think that all went swell... it has been a delight speaking with you. Thank you very much for your time, Mike.
MH: Who?

Later, the medication kicked in (or the booze wore off - and we're not saying for whom):

I think what I appreciate most about working with Rob — aside from the fact that he’ll bust his butt trying to pull off anything you ask him to — is that he’ll always put forth a “What if…” or a “How about…”. It’s a fun, creative process. Plus, I don’t know how many times we’ve had this conversation:

ME: “Hey, I heard a little bit of a …”
ROB: “Yeah, I just fixed that.”
ME: “Right. Well, I’ll just sit here and eat your Sun Chips then.”
ROB: "You know we charge for those..."

Learn more about Mike and Mullen here.