Comes over from DDB Stockholm where he was executive creative director/managing partner
Andreas Dahlqvist, who’s served as executive creative director/managing partner at DDB Stockholm since 2004, is joining McCann New York as vice chairman, executive creative director, a new post at the agency.
At DDB Stockholm, which recently was named the Gunn Report’s Digital Agency of the Year, Dahlqvist was responsible for the agency’s creative and strategic product and drove such highly lauded work as the “Fun Theory” campaign for Volkswagen and print and integrated work for McDonald’s, as well as a ground-breaking digital campaign for Swedish Armed Forces. Other creatively high profile clients, spanning multiple categories, include Telia, Adidas, Skoda, The Royal Opera, RSA’s Trygg-Hansa/Codan (insurance companies), Microsoft, Tropicana and international creative work for Vattenfalls, the Swedish energy company.
Earlier, Dahlqvist was creative director of DDB’s predecessor agency in Sweden, Paradiset, and from 1999-2003 he was creative director and founder of The Bearded Lady, a hybrid, interactive agency with a client roster that included Royal Mail, Spendrups beer, Telia, JC, Brothers and Stockholm Records. He began his career as an art director in his native Sweden.
Dahlqvist’s creative honors include 10 Cannes Lions, six One Show Pencils, 14 Clios, four London International Awards, as well as over 70 other top international and local festival award show honors.
Linus Karlsson, chairman/chief creative officer of McCann New York and London, said that Dahlqvist “will be responsible for hands-on oversight of the creative work for all New York agency clients and for leading the transformation of McCann’s N.Y. flagship agency into a creatively driven organization.”
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
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