Hi, hello, welcome!

I’m Ashley Milhollin, but most people just call me “Mil.”

I’m an award-winning, award-losing, award-judging Creative Director with experience across a wide range of brands and categories–from Target and Taco Bell to tuna and toilet paper.

(And a lot of others that don’t quite fit as alliteratively in the sentence above, like posh grocery stores, cars, fintech and femtech, video games and nerdy streaming platforms.)

Professionally, I believe advertising at its best has a tangible, positive impact on the world…and at the barest of minimums, we have a responsibility to make ads as “not horrible” as possible.

Personally, I believe “brevity soul wit” (best Simpsons joke ever), E.E. Cummings had the right idea about how to put words on a page, you can’t eye-roll your way out of depression, the decision for companies to leave some social platforms maybe isn’t a bad thing and I am rapidly approaching talking about myself entirely too much. 

ashley.milhollin@gmail.com.

Oh, you want to know why people call me Mil?

WELL… my job in college had like, eight Ashleys on staff and they had to figure out a way to differentiate us and it just kinda stuck and now it’s a long, weird thing to explain because I don’t really care if you call me Ashley except a lot of people professionally don’t know me that way and so if you ever ask, “Hey, did you like working with Ashley?” they may be like, “Who tf is that? I don’t know her.” and then I’ll look like a big ol’ giant liar when, really, it was just a misunderstanding about a short version of my last name that someone gave me in like 2009 that now I have to write about on my professional portfolio.  

I also sometimes drop in run-on sentences for dramatic effect.