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    BSSP hires associate creative directors Robison Mattei, Will Sands

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    SAUSALITO, Calif. --

    Independent creative agency Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners (BSSP) has hired Robison Mattei and Will Sands as its newest associate creative directors. Both industry vets–who have held senior-level creative roles at agencies including TBWAChiatDay, 180LA and Deutsch–will work across all BSSP clients and new business projects, helping the agency to further elevate its creative work and effectiveness. They will report to group creative directors Nicole Michels McDonagh and Sinan Dagli.

    Mattei has spent the last decade working at agencies around the globe–from Sรฃo Paulo to Dubai to Los Angeles, creating work for McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Toyota USA, ABInbev, Asics, Nestlรฉ, P&G, Google Cloud, among others. Brazilian born, to an Italian family full of artists and creators, he was naturally drawn to design. Mattei started his ad career at F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi Sao Paulo and worked his way up the creative ladder with stints at Lowe, JWT, Leo Burnett, Crispin Porter + Bogusky and 180LA. Most recently, he served as a sr. art director at TBWAChiatDay. His work has been recognized by several major award competitions including the Cannes Lions Festival, New York Festivals, The One Show and the Dubai Lynx International Festival.

    A truly integrated creative, Sands has spent time at both traditional and digital agencies including 180LA, Deutsch, and AKQA, working as a copywriter on major brands like Jordan, Volkswagen, Bud Light, Postmates, and Taco Bell. It was during his tenure at 180LA where he and Mattei first worked together. Over the last year, Sands has freelanced for various L.A.-based shops including Virtue, 72andSunny, and Decoded. His work has received industry awards at the Cannes Lions Festival, The One Show, D&AD and ANDYs; he’s also participated on juries for the CLIO Awards and The Webby Awards.

     

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    Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025

    Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.

    Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.

    Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."

    Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.

    As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."

    Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.

    "My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."

    Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More

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