Tom Burrell honored with NYF Hall of Fame award
Tom Burrell, who co-founded founded Burrell Advertising in 1971 and developed “positive realism” as a way of depicting African Americans using consumer products in an authentic
Tom Burrell, who co-founded founded Burrell Advertising in 1971 and developed “positive realism” as a way of depicting African Americans using consumer products in an authentic
Leo Burnett is usually always the biggest winner of double digit awards for TV commercial excellence in the international competitions it enters throughout the year and the 48th annual Hugo
Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago is bringing on board yet another new executive creative director: Native Australian ad man Derek Green, who most recently has been chief creative officer at Saatchi/Switzerland.
Green, who won’t arrive
With the official announcement that production executive John Noble will head design/live action company Eyeball here, the company has the distinction of being the only New
It’s rare — increasingly so — to find a TV commercial where everything seems to come together just so. Writing. Casting. Performances. Direction. Editing. Message. The whole shebang.
It’s rare to
So all you advertising-savvy readers. We’re now taking bets. How long do you think J.C. Penney — oh excuse us, JCP — will stick with this absurdity that is
Leo Burnett’s Addy Award wins were outright embarrassing in the number of Best, Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes the agency collected in the recent Chicago Addys competition – “celebrating the
Downtown Partners/Chicago is out. Sources report the powers-that-be at Downtown Partners/Chicago have changed course and decided not to participate in the agency review drug store behemoth Walgreens launched just
And then there was one — the winner. As first predicted days ago, Downtown Partners/Chicago, in conjunction with digital partner Critical Mass/Chicago, has prevailed in the review to select a new ad
When Nathan Brown was in college in St. Louis, he was told that if he wanted to get into advertising he should drive up to Chicago, pick a company that
To say 2011 whizzed by is an understatement. The year about to end was — everything considered — a pretty good year for the Chicago advertising industry. At least compared
Did someone mention turnaround? Yes, for the first time in a very long time, there are substantial signs of a discernible, hope-engendering turnaround in the fortunes of Chicago’s beleaguered advertising
The five agencies left in the running for the Illinois Lottery advertising account have gotten the assignment from the Lottery private manager Northstar Lottery Group that all will present in
We now know which five ad agencies (all in Chicago) have a shot at nabbing the Illinois Lottery account, with the winner expected to be announced in late January.
Those five
So far so… well, so not according to plan. The race to find a new ad agency for the Illinois Lottery has just begun, and already so much has
So the race is on to find the new ad agency of record for the Illinois Lottery. And from what we know now, it promises to be one of the
JOB OFFERS KEEP POURING IN for Roscor’s former skilled employees, 100 of whom were suddenly and sadly terminated from the 35-year old Mt. Prospect-based AV equipment company on Black Friday,
EVERYONE HERE who worked on the Chicago-set, Chicago-filmed “Boss” – all the unions, the Cinespace owners, all of us who believe in our industry and want to see it thrive –
So now we know. After months of waiting and wondering where Mark Modesto would turn up, it turns out he has landed just a short distance from DraftFCB, the shop
BEAST EDITORIAL has been rockin’ lately with more than its usual major advertising spot work. To wit: It edited a major doc that will showcase at the <a