News
Editor John Gramaglia has been leading a double life. By day, he was a mild-mannered cutter at New York edit shop Chinagraph working on ads for clients like Procter & Gamble and Subaru. But by night, he was elevating '70s punk band The Ramones to legendary status in a documentary. The film,...
The Advertising Women of New York presented the sixth annual Good, Bad, Ugly (GBU) Awards on March 31 at New York's Copacabana nightclub. The show, this year hosted by former Wheat Thins spokeswoman Sandy Duncan, honors advertisers and agencies that portray women in a positive light, while...
Company 3, New York, has hired colorist Roger H. Doran, a two-time Monitor Award winner who brings broad experience, especially in longform work, to the shop's telecine staff. A freelancer for the past year, Doran has been active in spots, music videos and television programs. In the latter...
Editor Nadia Hennrich has joined Chicago-based Swell. The German native had most recently been working out of Detroit-based Blue Highway, where her credits included a Chevy spot directed by Matt Donaldson and Chuck Leal of Avalon Films, Farmington, Mich., for Campbell-Ewald Advertising, Warren,...
Bob English has come aboard R!OT Manhattan as the design/visual effects company's creative director. He will oversee all of the facility's creative design projects, while attempting to broaden the scope of its design services.
Since July of last year, English has been running his own...
Digital effects studio Radium, with shops in Santa Monica and San Francisco, has brought on board executive producer Matthew McManus, operations manager Michael Chizzo and VP of marketing/sales Julie Luehrman.
McManus and Chizzo work out of the Santa Monica site, while Luehrman is based...
Composer/producer Brian Aumueller and producer Chris Gargani have partnered to form Blue Room Music, New York. Armed with recording industry experience and a solid track record of creating music for broadcast promos, Aumueller and Gargani are entering the spot music arena with Blue Room's launch...
State budgets are facing shortfalls across the country, and with no quick turnaround in sight for the U.S. economy, many states are being forced to make cutbacks—and in some cases eliminate—a wide variety of programs and services in an effort to shrink budget deficits.
The motion picture...
Agency Creative
In "Dewing It" SHOOT looks at two news spots-"Whale" for Mountain Dew, and "Mascot" for Code Red, a Mountain Dew product. The ads are part of a long tradition of great creative for the soda, and "Whale" is the latest in the decade-old "Do the Dew" campaign.
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New Faces
DraftWorldwide, Chicago, has promoted Janet Barker to executive VP/group creative director.
Craig Johnson has been promoted to VP/associate creative director at Arnold Worldwide, Boston.
Lynn Biederstadt has joined Stone Ward, Little Rock, Ark., as senior...