
Dustin Artz
Co-Founder, Familiar Creatures
Dustin Artz is Co-Founder and Creative Director at Familiar Creatures. He started Familiar Creatures in 2018 with former Martin Agency colleague, Justin Bajan. The agency helps challenger brands like Duke’s Mayonnaise and Crunch Fitness attack in untraditional ways to gain an unfair share of attention. And unreal results. Familiar Creatures was named the 25th Fastest Growing Agency by AdWeek in 2024.
Prior to Familiar Creatures, Dustin has almost two decades of experience art directing and creative directing culturally relevant and award-winning work at places like McKinney, Omelet, TeamOne, Chiat/Day LA, The Martin Agency and Arts&Letters. He’s helped win business like Sabra, Microsoft and Mentos. He’s created high-profile campaigns for Pepsi, the American Cancer Society, Chips Ahoy! and GEICO.
