Deutsch LA has hired Tara Greer as executive VP/executive creative director, platforms. Greer is a multi-award winning creative who has led teams to produce such well-known products and services as Nike+ Fuelband, One Nike+, NIKEiD, NikeTeam and the Converse Sampler App.
Since January 2013, Greer has acted as executive creative director of R/GA’s L.A. office. She opened the doors and grew the team to 45 in just a year and a half, building the creative group who crafted award-winning work for Beats by Dre’s “The Pills” and “Hear What You Want” integrated campaigns as well as winning multiple new business pitches.
“Over the last few years, we’ve made digital product development a priority,” said Winston Binch, chief digital officer of Deutsch LA. “We’ve invested heavily in technology talent, launched a stand-alone product invention service called the Inventioni.st, and most recently, completed an 18-month long, enterprise-level redesign of VW.com. Our ambition is to invent more, get deeper into ecommerce, and do it better than anyone else. To get there, we need people like Tara. She’s one of the most respected and accomplished digital product designers and leaders in marketing. Her work on breakthrough marketing applications like Nike+ Fuelband has made a big impact on the industry.”
Greer has deep expertise in mobile design, social design and game-influenced digital experiences. She has over 70 awards to her name, including Cannes Lions, ANDY Awards, CLIOs, and Webby Awards.
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