In its role as global creative agency for Ford, BBDO has brought in industry veterans Alex Booker and Philip Sicklinger to serve as executive creative directors on the business in North America. They will be based in New York, but split time between New York and Detroit. They were most recently group creative directors at MullenLowe U.S.
Said David Lubars, chief creative officer, BBDO Worldwide, “This is a pivotal and exciting moment for Ford and, indeed, the automotive industry. Things have to be looked at differently and done differently. Which means everyone we invite in to the agency to work on Ford has to have a wide open mind, a wide open aperture, where new platforms and new solutions rule the day. Alex and Phil have proven to be these type of thinkers.”
Booker and Sicklinger have been creative partners for more than a decade, going back to their days at M&C Saatchi in Australia. Over the years, they’ve also worked together at BMF, BBH in New York and, most recently, at MullenLowe, on businesses ranging from the retailer Aldi in Australia to PlayStation, E*Trade, Tap King and more in the U.S. Their portfolio of award-winning work includes Clios, D&AD Pencils, Lions, One Show Pencils, Effies and prominent regional festivals such as Spikes Asia, AdFest and AWARD.
They start at BBDO this month and join a creative team led by Lauren Connolly, EVP and global executive creative director, to whom they will report.
“Alex and Philip are an immensely talented team that will bring innovative storytelling and meaningful experiences to build the iconic Ford oval,” said Connolly. “And while their work speaks for itself, the people who have worked with them speak to the type of leaders they are —passionate, smart, inspiring and charismatic — which really does make them the perfectly balanced team. And a perfect fit for ours.”
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