Energy BBDO’s 2016 Super Bowl spot, the 90-second “Bud Light Coin” for ABinBev that aired in the game’s fourth quarter, was one of the eight Best of Show winners in the ...
This year’s Chicago advertising agency band competition, “Battle for Hope,” is looking to raise $60,000 that will send 120 kids from Off the Street Club to summer camp and...
Early in my technological lifetime, I attended regular meetings of a Mac user group out near O’Hare airport. As one of the geeks in the room even then, I ran across a pure pie...
“CHICAGOMADE” EVENTS will be on display at SXSW, March 11-16 in Austin, Texas, as the first-of-its-kind collaboration between DCASE (Dept. of Cultural Affairs & Special ...
“The Founder,” a biopic of Ray Kroc, the Oak Park native who turned hamburger restaurant in Southern California into the world’s largest restaurant franchise, is now in pr...
Bradley Bischoff, a staff commercial editor at agency McGarryBowen’s in-house facility, has been steadily producing notable short films — leading up to his first feature thi...
TV UPDATE. “Empire” has wrapped its second season, with elegant scenes filmed at the Drake Hotel that lit up Michigan Ave. the past two days. Fox TV’s hit serie...
The Chicago AAF Addys are taking heat from Adweek columnist Kat Gordon for mistaking 2016 for 1955 by having put together an all-male, all white jury to chose the winners for th...
Some 225 attendees are expected to attend the annual AAF Chicago Advertising Awards – the Chicago ADDYS — March 16 at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, presented by th...
The month of March came in like a lion for agency O’Keefe Reinhard & Paul (OKRP) with the launch of its massive broadcast / digital campaign for client Ace Hardware.The ca...
Another first for Chicago: DOC10, a documentary film festival presented by the Chicago Media Project – the good people who bring us Good Pitch Chicago – April 1-3 at the Mus...
Now that the Oscars are over, there’s one aspect of Sunday’s awards telecast that may have been lost on many of the viewers. One winner, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki aka...
Former Chicago editor Dustin Foster and his partner, motion designer and animator Dan Wiltshire, of Chop and Hue of Grand Rapids, struck an abundance of Gold — and Silver — ...
Director Joe Sedelmaier reigned supreme as an advertising game changer, innovator, provocateur, giving America such ground-breaking commercials as Wendy’s “Where’s the Bee...
After more than two years in the works, Chicago Filmmakers on Friday closed on its purchase of the city-owned Chicago landmark firehouse in Edgewater and will start converting i...
After a five-year hiatus, National Geographic’s monthly, hourlong “Explorer” series was relaunched and now opens with an exciting title sequence designed and produced by D...
Despite the termination of Michigan’s film incentives last July, the state will honor an agreement made with Michael Bay’s “Transformers 5” by providing the production w...
DDB WON BIG with Fiat Chrysler’s Jeep Business, which was shifted from FCB Chicago and became the lead agency on the account. In January DDB also became the lead agency ...
What should be an individual’s right to data privacy? When we live in what has become a wildly interconnected existence, what should anyone expect when it comes to the privacy...
“Truth hurts” tersely describes director Joe Otting’s new 8-minute short, “The Talk,” a life-changing conversation between a father and his 10-year old daughter that...
