Creative advertising and digital experience company Stink Studios has named Adrian Friend as its new technology director. He reports to Jax Ostle-Evans, managing director.
Friend joins following a standout year of innovative projects at Stink Studios, including its award-winning Peloton work “The Cooldown.” Along with building Stink Studio’s technical capabilities, Friend is responsible for inspiring and mentoring and growing the company tech team.
Ostle-Evans said: “Adrian’s career spans both digital studios and traditional agencies, which, along with his calm demeanor and deep understanding of technology really caught our eye. At the heart of our business is craft and our ability to push technologies to ensure we reach consumers with experiences they truly want to spend time with and we believe Adrian’s experience will allow us to push these even harder.”
Friend was previously technology director at MediaMonks, a role he took up in 2020, working on brands including Starbucks, McLaren Racing and Mondelez. Prior to this he was head of technology at KHWS, and he has also held roles at FCB Inferno, Isobar and Draw Studio.
“Joining Stink Studios feels like a natural choice: their values closely align with my own and they undoubtedly shine through in all that they create,” said Friend. “Stink Studios has a wealth of future thinking clients and I’m excited not only to help shape and focus our existing capabilities but to constantly evolve our offering to always be relevant and where our clients need us.”
Other standout digital work created recently by Stink Studios includes the new Google Security platform Bug Hunters, Air Max Day Worldwide for Nike, and Carnival Sounds for Spotify and Notting Hill Carnival.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More