Tonight, the collaboration of Chicago’s long established ARU recording company and Ft. Lauderdale-based Animaticmedia will launch with a party for an expected 175 invited
Cybill Shepherd and Mira Sorvino have been cast in “Believe,” a low-budget faith-based film currently shooting in
When Optimus colorist Oscar Oboza gave notice that he would be returning to Minneapolis, where he’d worked for years, to be closer to his family,
THE INAUGURAL FIFTH STAR AWARDS to honor “exemplary artists and arts institutions,” as proclaimed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and
R/GA RAMPED UP its 4-year old Chicago digital
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So. Here we go. We’re now barely 12 weeks into the new adventure in beer advertising that is the Chicago-based Cavalry agency. We don’t want to overstate the matter, but
NO WORD YET on whether the Goodman’s high-profile recent production of The Iceman Cometh will get a Broadway outing, artists from the stalwart Chicago storefront scene are taking their shows
One of the few independent agencies of substance, the autonomous Chicago office of HY Connect, has expanded its Michigan Avenue offices to accommodate larger staff and
Odd Machine’s L.A. office was in the driver’s seat for the production of a series of 12 commercial-length videos that captured the action of Fiat’s highly
Events uptempo during the second half of April (accelerated no doubt by Mars and Mercury, planets of creativity and communications going direct) also gives us a choice of more than one
The campaign announcing Rush University Medical Center’s new state-of-the-art hospital — a departure from the style of the hospital’s previous campaigns — was created by health care specialists <a href="http://www.spmadvertising.com"
I just picked up from Lomography that allows independent filmmakers and artists a chance to create beautiful analog films – using standard 35mm stock.
It’s a game changer for
RED CAR’S JON DESIR is the first artist to appear in a new web series called “On the Side,” about creative people in the local advertising community who
Energy BBDO/Chicago is about to unveil a major ad campaign for the Illinois Lottery’s new “Cash Spectacular” game. The new game will award 7.6 million prizes — four times more
WHO SHE IS: Makeup artist and talent coordinator Kathy Durkin teamed with photographer Markus Giolas’ Real Talent agency two years ago this month.
WHAT IT IS:
How do you confront life after advertising ? or the act of leaving a lengthy career in the commercial creative arts? Many, like former DDB creative director Lucia Blinn, “the
MOVIE ROLE FOR BROADCASTER. Jerry Rose, the Chicago religious broadcaster and head of Total Living Network, is executive producer of “Hangman’s Curse,” a thriller based on Frank Peretti’s
IFO director Brenda Sexton made news earlier this month when she attended the “Legally Blond 2” premiere in Springfield. Here’s the story as reported Downstate earlier this
