Branding and content creation company Gravity has brought aboard Alex Postelnicu–whose experience spans design, VFX, live action and concept development–as creative director. Announcement of the hire was made by Zviah Eldar, Gravity’s CEO/chief creative officer.
Postelnicu’s background spans permalancer gigs with such studios as Brand New School, Psyop, MassMarket, Humble, The Wilderness and Publicis. He has also had occasion to freelance at such shops as Digital Kitchen, Stardust and Superfad.
Bob Samuel, chief marketing officer and executive producer at Gravity, cited Postelnicu’s comfort level serving in varied capacities. “Alex is equally comfortable on set directing, working as a creative design director, or compositing in Flame with a room full of clients,” said Samuel who cited Postelnicu’s “international background” (which includes staff and permalance tenures at Switzerland’s Ultra Images) as helping him “to develop the ability to create functional, smart and effective communication design that has a positive response, and that can be used in advertising, fashion, architecture, industrial design or art.”
Among Postelnicu’s credits are projects for Volkswagen, Samsung, HP, Axe, Verizon, Toyota, Dodge, Porsche, Chase, the New York Stock Exchange and Zurich Financial, among others. He has taken on such roles over the years as art director, live-action director, VFX supervisor, creative director, lead designer, Flame artist, storyboard and concept artist.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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