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Dot-com companies are springing up everywhere, and their television commercials are mobbing the airwaves. But has anyone truly explained what the "dot" in dot-com is—or what it does? In a new Sun Microsystems commercial from Lowe Lintas & Partners, San Francisco, the dot is more than a...
Seattle-based production house Vision has set its national sales team, securing independent reps Brent Novick on the West Coast, J. Anderson in the Midwest, and Ilene Silberman on the East Coast.. Vision is under the aegis of partners Karen Stanton and Dain Rodwell….Benson/Schafler Artists...
After 26 years at Chicago-based agency Leo Burnett Co., senior VP/director of TV services David Beller has announced he is retiring; Burnett has not yet named his successor....Director Nick Lewin has moved from bicoastal X-1 Films over to sister company, Crossroads Films....Director Marty Weiss...
Robert Wherry, managing director of bicoastal HKM Productions and head of sales on the East Coast for HKM and its satellites The Directors Bureau and Public Works, is leaving the roost on March 31. Wherry said the parting is amicable. After nearly five years as part of the HKM family, Wherry...
directors Erich Joiner and Scott Burns have set up shop in Santa Monica as Tool of North America. Burns had been a creative director/partner at ad shop Berlin Wright Cameron, New York; Joiner was associate creative director/art director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco....Big...
Having recently been elected president of the Georgia Production Partnership (GPP), I'm excited about the united efforts of our production community and its renewed commitment to keep Georgia at the forefront of feature film and commercial production. Much of my feelings regarding this group and...
It was a special evening for Ken Yagoda, executive VP/ director of broadcast production at Young & Rubicam, New York. TV Cares, a committee of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), held its annual Ribbon of Hope celebration earlier this month (3/11) at the Leonard Goldenson...
March 31, 1995/Co-directors Erich Joiner and Scott Burns have set up shop in Santa Monica as Tool of North America. Burns had been a creative director/partner at ad shop Berlin Wright Cameron, New York; Joiner was associate creative director/art director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners,...
In a fleeting moment of advertising consciousness, a fugitive might view himself as the Energizer Bunny, having to constantly keep "going and going and going" in order to stay one step ahead of the law. But in this spec spot directed by Tim Cronenweth of Hollywood-based production house Event...
This :30, conceived by San Francisco agency Goldberg Moser O'Neill (GMO) for software/communications company Sybase, opens with a woman's voice that asks: "Do your internal and external information systems talk to each other?"
A male voice responds: "I can without any problem whatsoever...