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APRIL 4, 1997/Graphic designer/director David Carson has signed with New York facility R/Greenberg Associates (R/GA). He had been with cYclops, New York….Actor/filmmaker/writer Steve Buscemi has signed with A Band Apart Commercials, Hollywood, for exclusive representation as a spot director…....
Three former tomandandy staffers—Scott Brittingham, Mitch Davis and Steve Mac—have joined forces to form Pull, a New York-based music and sound design shop. All three men are owners/partners in the venture, although each has distinct responsibilities: Brittingham serves as executive producer,...
September Productions, New York, has launched satellite Lunch tv, also in New York. The new entity starts with three directors—E.J. Foerster, Steven Shainberg and Neil Salley—on its roster. Sonta Giamber, executive producer at September, will assume the same duties for Lunch tv.
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Director David Orr has signed with The Story Companies for exclusive spot representation. The agreement marks the first time that he has been repped by an independent production company. He previously served as creative director of QVC's in-house advertising department, through it directing more...
Editor Jim Haygood—who cut the just-released, David Fincher-directed feature Panic Room (with fellow editor Angus Wall of Rock Paper Scissors, Los Angeles)—has returned to spots and music videos, joining Venice-based Spot Welders.
Haygood, who spent the past year-plus working on Panic...
Director Kerry Shaw Brown has joined Atlas Pictures, the Santa Monica production house headed by president Sterling Ray. Atlas will rep Brown for commercials worldwide, with the exception of Canada, where he continues to work through Sez?Who, Vancouver, B.C. A former agency creative who made the...
A couple of Toyota commercials—one for the Matrix and one for the Corolla—are noteworthy in and of themselves, but also for a couple of other reasons: two brothers, actually. The directing team The Brothers Strause—a.k.a. Colin and Greg—make their spot helming debut with the Toyota :30s "...
Bill Youmans, a Chicago-based director, has struck up a relationship with Chicago production/postproduction and special effects house Post Effects. Additionally, executive producer Jim White has joined the staff of Post Effects.
Per the arrangement, Post Effects will produce much of the...
Creative solutions company mOcean, best known for the design and production of original motion graphics for the theatrical and broadcast arenas, has broadened into the spot business under the creative direction of founder/ executive creative director Michael McIntyre.
The shop has wrapped...
Jeremy Hollister has been named creative director of broadcast design at R!OT Design, New York (formerly R!OT Manhattan). Hollister will provide creative supervision for all design-related projects undertaken by the studio. A key member of R!OT's design team since 1996, Hollister has won...