Digital Kitchen (DK), the Seattle and Chicago-based digital branding, design and production company, plans to relocate its Santa Monica creative facility to New York. The company will continue to maintain a Santa Monica office, which will be reconfigured to primarily service live-action work and support DK’s entertainment client assignments.
DK’s West Coast executive producer Bill Hewes will move to New York to head up the new operation. Hewes is no stranger to the East Coast, having served in exec producer capacities at several New York shops over the years. For DK he has also spent the past couple of those years running the company’s productions in New York.
DK founder/chief creative officer Paul Matthaeus said that circumstances justified establishing a permanent creative and production foothold in New York. He noted that DK maintains collaborative relationships with a growing number of New York ad agencies, and that Gotham has traditionally been the largest market for the company.
Meanwhile DK’s West Coast creative director Mason Nicoll will remain in Santa Monica to oversee work there, which presently includes title design for the features Superman Returns and Stick-It. Recent projects produced by DK, Santa Monica, include graphics work for Comcast from Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, and Wal-Mart via GSD&M, Austin, Tx., as well as broadcast design assignments for Discovery Channel and the CBS primetime series Ghost Whisperer.