Jim Glover has worked for general market and black agencies and his work has always been on the cutting edge, which many believe is why he has won so many accolades in the biz.
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Leo Burnett’s first commercial for Serta’s new campaign uses Monty Python styled humor to make an effective selling point.
Titled, Rick Blomquist, the spot relies on the...
Ron Bess, you would make AARP proud. I first met Bess when I joined FCB, Chicago. I knew at the time the ad vet, who was sporting a tan that could rival George Hamilton’s, was...
Okema "Seven" Gunn has been an educator for several years in New York City and the Chicagoland area. She has a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Masters in Secondary Education ...
Kinzie Street Studio’s upcoming weekly series What’s On Tap adds a most essential ingredient to the food and travel show menu: beer.
Lots and lots of beer.
“Servin...
According to an ongoing study at San Diego State University, a mere 18% of 2017’s top 500 grossing films were directed by women.
In other words, audiences are missing out....
Well, that didn’t take long.
Omnicom Group Inc. President and CEO John Wren announced the appointment of Wendy Clark, who joined the agency in 2016, as President and CEO o...
Barry Burdiak leaves DDB for Epsilon
Barry Burdiak, a nearly 30-year veteran of DDB Chicago, has left the agency to lead data-driven Epsilon Chicago as Senior Vice President,...
Longtime Windy City writer Denise O'Neal is a freelance screenwriter, blogger, and novelist. In 2012, she served on the board of the Chicago Screenwriters Network. Her interview...
With all due respect to the creative team at DDB Chicago, I did not and could not turn away from my beloved Eagles, and their win over the Patriots, to watch what was perhaps th...
Chicago performer Erv Dahl plays Rodney Dangerfield in the recently released Netflix movie, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, about the rise and fall of National Lampoon magazine.
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Angelina Jolie wins at Annie's
The Vince Lombardi trophy wasn’t the only award handed out this weekend. In Los Angeles, The Directors Guild of America and The Annie...
Harold Dennis is an American actor with twenty years in the business and over one hundred and fifty film credits. Dennis enjoys playing complex characters with a myriad of confl...
This year, the commercials were the best part of the Super Bowl for everyone who doesn't live in Boston or Philadelphia.
In keeping with the couch potato, post-game, armchair...
There were plenty of eye-popping fireworks during this year’s Super Bowl in terms of both offense on the field and the amount of high-profile celebrity helmed ads.
While i...
BETC Paris earned Best of Show nods in two categories of the 2017 Mobius Awards, which were announced on February 1.
Founded in 1971, the Mobius Awards is an annual culminati...
If not for Black people, the United States would be a pretty boring place to live.
So much of our popular culture is rooted in the experience of African Americans that it’...
No, the new independent film, Cold War, won’t make you sick (unless you can’t catch your breath from laughing), but the actors in it sure are — as in catching the nasty ...
Supporting its mantra that drinkers can stay fit and enjoy beer, Michelob Ultra has scheduled, for the very first time, two Super Bowl spots.
The first, titled, The Perfect ...
Aubrey Walker is a 15-year Creative originally from Milwaukee, WI. Aubrey has worked
for such agencies as Burrell, Carol H. Williams, MKTG, GMR, Globalhue and The True
Agency....
