Former U.K. team reunites with chief creative officer Ewan Paterson
Matt Collier and Wayne Robinson, formerly of CHI & Partners in London, have come aboard DDB Chicago as creative directors. The move reunites the creative team with Ewan Paterson, chief creative officer of DDB Chicago; the three had worked together at CHI & Partners.
At DDB Chicago, Collier and Robinson will be tasked with collaborating on ideas across the agency’s account roster. Over the years, they have done notable work for such clients as Shell, Nestle, 888.com, Toyota, Mazda, Kellogg’s, News International, Britvic, Tiger Beer, and Friends of the Earth. This year, Collier and Robinson were widely lauded for their Sunday Times “Rich List” print campaign which earned a coveted D&AD Yellow Pencil. Collier and Robinson have also been featured in D&AD each of the five years they worked at CHI & Partners, for five different clients.
Collier and Robinson join DDB Chicago on the heels of the agency winning Pepsi’s Sierra Mist account and following its recent win of several new Mars Chocolate and Wrigley brands, including Starburst®, Skittles®, Milky Way®, Combos® and Balisto® to be led out of Chicago.
The creative team is also the latest in a spate of new hires in the Chicago office as Paterson has reshaped the creative department over the past year. Among the talent that has recently joined the agency are Alex Braxton and Alistair Robertson as creative directors, Eric Johnson as executive producer of music and integration, Jonathan Sackett as chief digital officer and Azher Ahmed as director of digital operations.
“Overnight Success” Has Been More Than A Decade In The Making For Meghann Fahy and Eve Hewson
Meghann Fahy and Eve Hewson, two of the stars of Netflix's whodunit "The Perfect Couple," have news for you if you want to call them breakouts: They've been working in this business for more than a decade.
Fahy made her TV debut in 2009 in an episode of "Gossip Girl." Hewson's first big film role was in 2011's "This Must Be the Place." They do concede, however, that it's recent TV roles — "The White Lotus" for Fahy and "Bad Sisters" for Hewson — that have led to new frontiers of opportunity.
Susanne Bier, who directed "The Perfect Couple," says both Fahy and Hewson are "going to be big stars."
"They certainly have proper, profound star quality, Both of them in very different ways," Bier says. "Both are incredibly creative, incredibly smart, and also have a impressive insight as to who they are. You can be a great actor or actress and not necessarily really know who you are yourself. And they do."
Hewson, 33, whose dad is U2 front man Bono, may have grown up in a famous family but she's now in demand in her own right. She will next be seen in a second season of "Bad Sisters, " out in November. She's in Noah Baumbach's next film, alongside Adam Sandler, George Clooney and Riley Keough. She's also been cast in Steven Spielberg's next production and is set to star opposite Murray Bartlett in a racing series for Hulu.
Fahy, 34, is in production on a limited series with Julianne Moore and Milly Alcock called "Sirens," written by Molly Smith Metzler ("Maid") for Netflix. She also has two films in the can with Josh O'Connor ("The Crown," "Challengers") and Brandon Sklenar ("It Ends With Us").
The two actors spoke candidly about this phase of their careers. This interview has been condensed for clarity and... Read More