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    AICP Week Events Set; Directors Lecture Series Will Feature Ledwidge, Murro, Schofield

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    Matt Miller
    NEW YORK --

    Events for AICP Week–which runs from June 10-12 at various locations in New York City–are now set. Matt Miller, president and CEO of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, announced the debut of AICP Week Base Camp, which will serve as a central location for the week, featuring educational panels and discussions, as well as a meeting place and hospitality hub for those attending any of the AICP Week tent pole events. Discussion topics at Base Camp include: panels with the AICP Next Awards Jury Presidents and Integrated Campaign winners; a session with the AICP Show Curators, as well as panels on Digital Best Practices and cameras and workflow.

    Headlining AICP Week will be the 2014 AICP Next Awards, the Directors Lecture Series and the AICP Show: The Art and Technique of the American Commercial.

    Now in their 8th year, the 2014 AICP Next Awards will take place at NYU’s Skirball Center on Tuesday, June 10. Gerry Graf, founder and chief creative officer of Barton F. Graf  9000, and the Next Awards Judging Chair will serve as emcee at the event. The AICP Next Awards honor advertising across eight categories: Integrated Campaign, Viral/Web Film, Website/Microsite, Product Integration, Experiential, Mobile, Social and Cause Marketing. Winners in these categories will be announced, with winners in the Integrated Campaign category presenting case studies of their winning work. The Most Next Award will also be presented to the work that best exemplifies the mission of the Next Awards, accompanied by a grant to an educational institution of the Most Next recipient’s choosing.

    On Wednesday afternoon, June 11, the Directors Lecture Series will take center stage at The Museum of Modern Art. This year will feature three major directors: Ringan Ledwidge of Rattling Stick, Noam Murro of Biscuit Filmworks, and Keith Schofield of Caviar. Each director will present a retrospective on his career and share thoughts on the evolution of the industry.

    The 23rd Annual AICP Show, The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, is a compendium of exceptional commercials chosen for honors in 22 technical and artistic categories. The 2014 AICP Show Chairman is Michael Sagol, Managing Director/Executive Producer at Caviar. The Show debuts on Thursday, June 12, with a screening at The Museum of Modern Art, followed by a gala reception.

    “The AICP Awards continue to grow both in size and significance. This year’s AICP Week will be an exciting time for our industry,” Miller noted. “In addition to our pillar events, this year’s advent of AICP Week Base Camp will serve as a do-all gathering place, where our industry can come together to discuss business, learn about the latest trends at one of the sessions, or just recharge their batteries (personal and phone) in a lounge-type atmosphere.”

    Tickets for 2014 AICP Week are now available.

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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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