John C Jay is a Partner of Wieden + Kennedy in Portland Oregon and the Executive Creative Director with founder Dan Wieden, overseeing the agency's global creative work. Jay opened the W+K Tokyo and Shanghai offices with Beijing and India opening this Fall.
He lived in Japan for 6 years as Co-Creative Director of the Tokyo office and continues as that role for the W+K Tokyo Lab, the independent DVD music label. The Lab's 9th release is its first live album with label's beat-making duo, Hifana. Jay continues to work a few days each month in each of the W+K Asia offices.
Previous to joining W+K in 1993, Jay served as both Creative Director and Marketing Director for Bloomingdale's in New York City.
His creative work has been a part of exhibitions in galleries and musuems in international cities including New York, Boston, Chicago, Portland, London, Paris, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Copenhagen and St.
Pettersburg. His book, Soul of the Game was named "14 Most Beautiful in the World" by the Copenhagen Museum and received the Gold Medal a the Leipzig Book Fair. He was once named by I.D. Magazine as "40 Most Influential in Design" and by American Photographer Magazine as "80 Most Influential".
He is a contributor to international culture magazines including Tokion Japan, Brutus, Honeyee, Spread, SOMA and Theme.
Jay also owns Studio J, in Portland's Chinatown district, where he
currently oversees projects in residential development, product design,
books and poster design. Studio J is also a creative salon bringing
interesting talents together from around the world. He has founder of
the Jay Scholarship at The Ohio State University which supports and
encourages students of Asian descent to pursue a career in the Arts.