Creative directors well known for their lengthy tenure at The Richards Group
Agency vets Rob Baker and Jimmy Bonner, longtime executive creative directors, have teamed to launch Baker & Bonner Creative Emporium, a multi-disciplined boutique branding shop in Dallas. Baker and Bonner will both serve as chief creative officers of the new venture which will offer clients a wide array of services including branding, design, strategy, consulting, identity, content, social, experiential, website design and public relations.
Prior to forming their Creative Emporium, Baker and Bonner were creative partners and group heads at The Richards Group for more than 17 years and together led some of that agency’s most high-profile and awarded work for clients including Ram Trucks, The Home Depot, PGA Tour Superstore, Spalding, GoRVing, Biltmore, Sea Island, Bridgestone and Firestone. Their 2013 Super Bowl “So God Made a Farmer” commercial for Ram Trucks is one of the best-liked and powerful Big Game commercials of all time.
Baker & Bonner Creative Emporium’s mission is to create iconic, original work for people, brands and production companies. The agency’s clients include one of rock and roll’s most prolific photographers, Danny Clinch and his Transparent Clinch Gallery, London-based Jan Erika Design, Oyster Fine Bamboo Fly Rods, Dallas-based Peacock Alley and R&D Brewing in North Carolina.
“We’ve always talked about starting our own place,” said Bonner. “Given everything going on in the world today, now is the perfect time to launch our creative-driven agency and offer clients financially accessible top-shelf creative services that deliver results.”
Baker added, “Our approach is to be an irreplaceable creative source for emerging and established brands, production houses and entertainment companies. We thrive on coming up with big ideas and executing them with all the craft and wisdom we know how to provide.”
The aforementioned Ram Trucks Super Bowl ad–which earned SHOOT Top Spot distinction–was two-minutes long and tapped into the “So God Made a Farmer” speech made by famed radio broadcaster Paul Harvey in 1978 at the National Future Farmers of America Convention. The eloquent remarks became even more poetic and lyrical when played to a backdrop of images capturing farm life as a slice of Americana.
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More