Garrett DeLorm, director of production at Camp + King (C+K), has been named partner after five years with the agency, which maintains offices in San Francisco and Chicago. For nearly two decades, DeLorm has devoted himself to solving creative problems across a myriad of production disciplines, from video games to a 24/7 live channel. He has worked with dozens of brands, including Apple, Nike/Jordan, Audi, MINI, Columbia Sportswear, Activision, 2K Games, and Levi’s.
Joining the production department promotions is Charlie Ferraye, who has been elevated to executive producer from sr. producer after three years with the company. He has produced television shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, and for the last decade, he’s focused on content and commercials. In finance, Christine Plascencia takes on the role of director of finance and operations. She began her accounting career in the banking industry before switching to advertising. After stints at BSSP and AKQA, she joined C+K and has been overseeing all aspects of the agency’s finances for the last seven years.
The creative department sees the promotion of two associate creative directors–Chris Nash and Jason Whitehead–to its team of creative directors. Nash has been with C+K for 10 years, starting with the agency as an intern. He has helped develop campaigns for clients such as Google, Capital One, RE/MAX, Copper Cane wines, Energizer, Sacramento Kings, and prAna. Nash most recently worked on the “Wish-Cycling” campaign for Grove Collaborative starring Drew Barrymore. Whitehead began with C+K one year ago. In his short tenure he’s developed and produced social campaigns for RE/MAX and Bรถen Wines, along with teaming up with Nash to create the aforementioned “Wish-Cycling” campaign. Whitehead comes with nine years of agency experience as a writer, including most recently working on the Acura account at MullenLowe Los Angeles.
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
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