Nancy Tag

Nancy R. Tag has been a Creative Director at various advertising agencies throughout New York City where she’s overseen a distinguished roster of clients which include ING Financial Services, Procter & Gamble, The Waldorf-Astoria, Shiseido Cosmetics, Seiko, Canon, and Aruba Tourism. As a freelance copywriter, Nancy’s traveled from Tokyo to Toronto to work with such distinctly different clients as Yamagataya Nori (seaweed), The Globe & Mail, and Molson’s Golden Ale. In addition to winning numerous industry awards, two of her television commercials have been inducted into the permanent collection on advertising at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

Before coming to City College, Professor Tag taught advertising to potential copywriters, art directors and design managers at Parsons School of Design where she twice received the Henry Wolf Award for Teaching Excellence. She’s also taught in the Baker School of Business and Technology College at FIT. In 2007, she was the recipient of a CCNY Presidential Junior Faculty Leadership & Service Award as well as a Colin Powell Fellowship. Professor Tag is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters in Media Studies from New School University.

Ad Critique: How to Deconstruct Ads in Order to Build Better Advertising. Sage Publications 2012.