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MARCH 6, 1998/Tony Kaye & Partners, London and West Hollywood, has entered into an agreement with Tokyo-based agency Dentsu. Kaye directors will become involved in certain Dentsu creative assignments from their inception, while Dentsu will gain from sending two creatives to work out of Kaye'...
Just days after panicked Americans—fearing an imminent terrorist attack—stripped hardware store shelves clean of duct tape and plastic sheeting in February, the Advertising Council, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, launched a...
English director Anthony Atanasio has come aboard bicoastal production company Naked Project for exclusive commercial representation in the United States. He will continue to be represented in Europe by Paris-based Première Heure.
Atanasio, best known for his work in the short film arena...
Director Stuart Acher has linked with Picture Park, Santa Monica and Boston, for commercial and music video representation. Previously, he had been working out of bicoastal/international Partizan on an informal basis. Earlier, he had been repped by now defunct Travisano DiGiacomo Films.
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Agency music producers can be called upon to do many things in the course of a workday. A morning could be spent looking for just the right classic rock hit or obscure pop song to make a spot click. Early afternoon might entail negotiating song rights with a music publisher. Later, going over...
When asked how he feels about his company's meteoric success, Downtown Partners DDB creative director Dan Pawych responds with a laugh: "It scares the shit out of me. We can only go downhill now."
It's doubtful the Toronto ad shop will go downhill anytime within the foreseeable future. In...
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Jay Tilin of The Anx, New York, manned a Quantel Henry to perform the online finishing for a pair of :30s for Quizno's and agency Cliff Freeman and Partners, New York. "Focus/Generic" and "Focus/Chicken Carbonara" both feature Chef Jimmy, who is so preoccupied...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Directors David Daniels and Chel White have teamed with partner/executive producer Ray Di Carlo to launch Bent Image Lab, a hybrid animation laboratory/live-action production house headquartered in Portland.
The company name, explained Daniels—who's best known for his...
NEW YORK—So whatever became of the studio complex supposedly destined for the Brooklyn Navy Yard? It is under construction, and at least one building containing five soundstages will be operational in April 2004—this according to Andrew Stern, senior VP of client services for the New York City...
Many people in commercial postproduction hope that last year and this year will be vastly different. By most accounts, advertising was unadventurous in 2002, technology was stagnant and the workflow was intermittent. But for those weathering this difficult period, the past year was also a good...