180LA Hires Award-Winning, Innovative, Creative Duo: Juan David Arboleda and Guiga Cunha Join as Associate Creative Directors

By Egotist / August 18, 2021 /

Arboleda Comes from Casanova/McCann with Over 100 top Advertising Awards

Cunha Moves from DDB Chicago with Multiple Creative Nods including Two 2021 Cannes Lions

180LA, the purpose-led creative agency, boosts creative department hiring Juan David ‘Puma’ Arboleda as Associate Creative Director/Copywriter and Guiga Cunha as Associate Creative Director/Art Director. The pair will report to Executive Creative Director Mike Bokman, and work on legacy 180LA client Cox Communications and new business. Arboleda and Cunha are both multi-award-winning creatives, recognized for their fresh, innovative approach and non-traditional work.

“Guiga and Juan consistently challenge the conventional and create provocative, daring work,” said Bokman. “Which is exactly why they will feel right at home at 180LA.”

Arboleda joins 180LA from Casanova/McCann LA where he was Creative Director working on clients including Chevrolet, Nestlé and NY Lottery, among others. He has won more than 100 advertising awards, including the first Gold Cannes Lions for Medellín city and the Young Lions Colombia, two years in a row. He was recently named the best Creative Director in Latin America at the prestigious Art Directors Club Festival. In Columbia, he worked at top creative shops DDB and Mullen Lowe SSP3, before moving to Los Angeles. Arboleda studied screenwriting at the San Antonio Film and TV School in Cuba and has taught courses on creativity at Brother Creativity School in Bogotá.

Cunha comes onboard from DDB Chicago where he was Associate Creative Director working on iconic brand Miller Lite. Before that, he was with Digitas North America/Chicago on the KitchenAid business, and in Brazil he worked at top shops NBS/Dentsu Aegis Network and DM9DDB, among others. Cunha has won eight Cannes Lions, two of them in the recent 2021 Festival for film and print. His work has been recognized and awarded by numerous prestigious competitions, including D&AD, The One Show, and LIA.