It’s a basic axiom. If advertising campaigns don’t get refreshed, they usually get stale. And when ad campaigns become stale, that usually means consumers become...
Dictionary Films, Cutters’ production arm which went gangbusters in 2012, is headed for a bigger spot in the galaxy of production houses with the addition of one of adve...
It certainly cannot claim to be the world’s largest ad agency. Or even the largest in Chicago. But no matter. Schafer Condon Carter/Chicago can now boast of ...
DIRECTOR KEVIN COOPER of Amarok Productions, who directed the family dog film I Heart Shakey, arguably the first stereoscopic 3D feature made in Chicago, tackles the tough ...
Just when things seem darkest, a ray of light often materializes to indicate all is not lost. And sure enough, that is what has happened at Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago. ...
Given the awards and acclaim heaped on Steve James The Interrupters, Vagabond Audio’s Drew Weir didn’t find it too surprising when the documentary was nominated for a 2...
EFFECTS MAKEUP SPECIALIST, Westmont-based J. Anthony Kosar, 27-year old award-winning, artist, creature designer, sculptor, theatre, film and commercials special effects cr...
It isn’t always on our radar screen in quite the same way some other local ad shops are, but, as it turns out, there’s lots happening at ESW Partners/Chicago these days...
Sands shift. They shift under people. They shift under institutions too. Perhaps no cultural organization in Chicago has recognized just how much the sands are...
AFTER A SHORT STINT at McGarryBowen where he worked on the equally short-lived Bud Light account, executive creative director Mike Roe returned to Energy BBDO the start of the N...
Schafer Condon Carter’s president/managing partner David Selby said “something special is happening here,” as he announced the promotion of four creative members of t...
Two ReelChicago contributors are repackaging historic interviews from the old syndicated Diamond Gems baseball radio show for the Chicago Baseball Museum website. The proje...
With “Chicago Fire’s” ratings red hot, the NBC Universal prime-time drama got the go-ahead for a full 22 episode series that will continue to shoot in Chicago through Marc...
Who could blame him. On Wednesday, veteran Chicago ad man Tom O’Keefe probably breathed a huge sigh of relief, and simply said he wanted out. Yes, out. Though deta...
Even Jellyvision Games staff were surprised when the Facebook version of their long-running trivia game You Don’t Know Jack won in the new Social Game of the Year category at ...
Jared Yeater has visited and done business in Chicago “many, many times,” he says, and in mid-February he will take up permanent residency as the executive producer of The M...
While mid-January typically ushers in the post-holiday winter blahs, anyone who makes it to City Winery on Sat. Jan. 19 will bask in the sunshine of harmony-rich pop with a sedu...
CHICAGO’S BIGGEST AGENCY, Leo Burnett, fittingly starts the New Year news cycle off with two noteworthy achievements. The first: This month the Chicago agency takes over...
Many years ago, before I directed more than 500 television commercials and before Mark Androw and I created Chicago Story, I spent a good number of years on the street as a dire...
Nowadays, with the healthy food police constantly causing a ruckus about anything that smacks of unhealthy eating, it’s gotta be tough for KFC. Sure, the fried chicken ...