BMB has hired Jules Chalkley, the Engine creative director, as chief creative officer.
At Engine, Chalkley led the creative output across the group’s government business and worked closely with WCRS on accounts including Royal Navy. He was also responsible for the lauded NHS “Missing Type” campaign in 2015.
Chalkley has built a highly integrated creative skillset spanning advertising, PR, social media, experiential, and digital.
Before Engine, he worked at Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R on campaigns for clients including Land Rover (#hibernot), Marks & Spencer, Vodafone and the BBC’s coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Juliet Haygarth, the chief executive of BMB, said: “Jules manages to combine an understanding and appreciation of the creative drive and craft of brilliant advertising, alongside the ability to create contemporary and agile creative ideas.”
Chalkley added: “Engine has been a brilliant time in my life. I’ve been very lucky to work with an incredible team and clients.BMB is an amazing opportunity, I’ve always dreamt of being part of the evolution of an agency steeped in genuine creative greatness. There is a wonderful future to be had making it the most creatively exciting, relevant, fearless and dynamic force to be reckoned with. And have a great time doing it.”
Review: Director Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece”
A movie documentary that uses only Lego pieces might seem an unconventional choice. When that documentary is about renowned musician-producer Pharrell Williams, it's actually sort of on-brand.
"Piece by Piece" is a bright, clever song-filled biopic that pretends it's a behind-the-scenes documentary using small plastic bricks, angles and curves to celebrate an artist known for his quirky soul. It is deep and surreal and often adorable. Is it high concept or low? Like Williams, it's a bit of both.
Director Morgan Neville — who has gotten more and more experimental exploring other celebrity lives like Fred Rogers in "Won't You Be My Neighbor?,""Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain" and "Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces" — this time uses real interviews but masks them under little Lego figurines with animated faces. Call this one a documentary in a million pieces.
The filmmakers try to explain their device — "What if nothing is real? What if life is like a Lego set?" Williams says at the beginning — but it's very tenuous. Just submit and enjoy the ride of a poor kid from Virginia Beach, Virginia, who rose to dominate music and become a creative director at Louis Vuitton.
Williams, by his own admission, is a little detached, a little odd. Music triggers colors in his brain — he has synesthesia, beautifully portrayed here — and it's his forward-looking musical brain that will make him a star, first as part of the producing team The Neptunes and then as an in-demand solo producer and songwriter.
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