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AICE Goes International, Launches In Toronto
- Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004
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NEW YORK—The Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) is launching a chapter in Toronto, the first outside the U.S. This marks the beginning of what is intended to be an expansion into...
New York Shop In The Offing For Spot Welders
- Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004
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NEW YORK—Editorial house Spot Welders, headquartered in Venice, Calif., plans to have a New York office up and running by Feb. 1, 2005. Hired to head up the new shop as its lead editor is Dick...
Rupert Sanders
- Friday, Oct. 15, 2004
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Sometimes it seems that director Rupert Sanders of Omaha Pictures, Santa Monica, likes to do things the hard way. His reel contains a number of spots with striking visuals that have all the...
Dave Meyers
- Friday, Oct. 15, 2004
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Dave Meyers long ago made quite a name for himself as a music video director, but this year he managed to extend his success to the commercial realm. Meyers, who directs spots through bicoastal/...
Ringan Ledwidge
- Friday, Oct. 15, 2004
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Work was probably the last thing on Ringan Ledwidge's mind during a recent night out at the movies. Yet as he sat in the darkened theater waiting for the previews to start, he got a super-sized...
Barbara Kopple
- Friday, Oct. 15, 2004
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Barbara Kopple, who directs commercials via bicoastal nonfiction spots, spent a lot of time laughing while helming a humor-driven Sprint campaign out of Publicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco....
Agency Rubin Postaer Explores Acura MDX's Desires
- Friday, Oct. 15, 2004
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If an SUV could dream, what would its fantasy be? Running errands in suburbia, stuck in traffic on the freeway? Not likely. The creative team at Rubin Postaer and Associates, Santa Monica,...
Young Music Lover Becomes CD Changer
- Friday, Oct. 15, 2004
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The term "CD changer" takes on a whole new meaning in this Varta batteries spot directed by Patrik Forsberg of Les Télécréateurs, Paris, for agency Hemisphere Droit in Clichy, France.
The...