CP+B has hired Rich Tlapek as creative director. Tlapek is based out of CP+B’s Boulder office and will be working on the agency’s Best Buy account.
Most recently Tlapek freelanced for Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Innocean and Montreal-based Sid Lee. Prior to that he spent 15 years at GSD&M in Austin, Texas, moving up to VP/group creative director. While there he oversaw creative on numerous accounts including the U.S. Air Force, PGA Tour, Dial, CBS Sports and John Deere.
Tlapek is responsible for the well-known Southwest Airlines tagline “Ding: You are now free to move about the country.” His work has been recognized by The One Show, New York Art Directors Club, Communication Arts and D&AD, while his work for the PGA Tour and CBS Sports won Cannes Lions.
Among his favorite campaigns he worked on were the PGA Tour’s “These guys are good” and Dial Body Wash’s “You’re not as clean as you think.” Tlapek is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Portfolio Center for Advertising.
CP+B, a member of the MDC Partners network, has a client list that includes Microsoft, Unilever, Kraft, Phillips, Coke Zero, American Express, Domino’s Pizza, MetLife, Old Navy, Applebee’s, Discovery Networks, SAS, Arby’s and Best Buy. CP+B has more than 850 employees worldwide, collaborating across six shops: Boulder, Miami, Los Angeles, Toronto, London and Gothenburg, Sweden.
Netflix Series “The Leopard” Spots Classic Italian Novel, Remakes It As A Sumptuous Period Drama
"The Leopard," a new Netflix series, takes the classic Italian novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and transforms it into a sumptuous period piece showing the struggles of the aristocracy in 19th-century Sicily, during tumultuous social upheavals as their way of life is crumbling around them.
Tom Shankland, who directs four of the eight episodes, had the courage to attempt his own version of what is one of the most popular films in Italian history. The 1963 movie "The Leopard," directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme d'Or in Cannes.
One Italian critic said that it would be the equivalent of a director in the United States taking "Gone with the Wind" and turning it into a series, but Shankland wasn't the least bit intimidated.
He said that he didn't think of anything other than his own passion for the project, which grew out of his love of the book. His father was a university professor of Italian literature in England, and as a child, he loved the book and traveling to Sicily with his family.
The book tells the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, a tall, handsome, wealthy aristocrat who owns palaces and land across Sicily.
His comfortable world is shaken with the invasion of Sicily in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was to overthrow the Bourbon king in Naples and bring about the Unification of Italy.
The prince's family leads an opulent life in their magnificent palaces with servants and peasants kowtowing to their every need. They spend their time at opulent banquets and lavish balls with their fellow aristocrats.
Shankland has made the series into a visual feast with tables heaped with food, elaborate gardens and sensuous costumes.... Read More