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To skillfully translate a literary work of art from one language to another, you must be something of an artist yourself. To take all of the meanings and themes, the richness and cultural significance found in a string of Spanish words, for example, and transpose them into Russian, is the...
Sound designer Jun Mizumachi has joined music and sound design shop Tonic. He comes over from Howard Schwartz Recording (HSR), New York, where he spent the past three and a half years on staff as sound designer.
Mizumachi has mainly worked on commercials throughout his career, and will...
Bicoastal design/ animation/visual effects studio Hornet Inc. has hired Stephen Mann to serve as CG supervisor. Now based in Hornet's New York quarters, he recently was digital effects supervisor for Kleiser-Walczak, New York, contributing to spots for Fisher-Price, Pepsi, Subway and Mattel, and...
Yessian Music, the Farmington, Mich.-headquartered music and sound design house, has launched a satellite studio in Malibu. Composer/producer Hayley Moss heads up the new facility, having recently relocated from the East Coast, where she had been on staff at Yessian, New York.
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Goodspot—a five-year-old design and editorial firm specializing in motion design, marketing and branding projects for advertising, feature films, corporate presentations, and TV networks and programs—has hired Sonia Lamba as its creative director. Lamba formerly served as creative director at...
Matthews/Mark, San Diego, has named Craig Evans executive VP/creative director. Formerly principal/creative director of Big Bang Idea Engineering, also San Diego, Evans replaces Matthews/Mark partner Michael Mark, who left earlier this year to pursue an undisclosed project...
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Eyeball NYC created animation for the HSBC kiosk in the Times Square Visitor's Center in the heart of New York City. After taking a photo at the kiosk, visitors appear in a cartoon that is seen on the HSBC Bank USA billboard, a 52-foot-tall by 50-foot-wide LED...
The visual effects business in 2002 isn't what it used to be, several top players in the field say, but it's better than most expected at this stage. A sampling of effects companies surveyed by SHOOT finds that after a disastrous tail end of 2001, the first quarter of '02 was strong, albeit a...
Click 3X has signed British designer/director John Kennedy for exclusive spot and broadcast design representation in the U.S. The move to the New York-based visual effects/ computer animation/broadcast design shop reunites Kennedy with Click 3X creative director Iain Greenway. The two men worked...
Last fall Dennis Ryan was given the chance to do something that one rarely gets to do in advertising: something new. The Omincom Group launched a new advertising agency in Chicago to handle PepsiCo's portfolio of products, including everything from Tropicana and Dole Juice Drinks to Quaker Oats...