Publicis in the West has fortified the ensemble of digital talent in it Seattle office, bringing on board senior VP/creative director David Bryant, senior VP/strategy Kevin Drew Davis, and creative directors Lindsay Daniels and Hart Rusen.
Bryant joins Publicis in the West from Strawberry Frog, New York, where he most recently served as executive creative director. Prior to that his ad shop affiliations included Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), and Digitas. He was one of the founding members of Tribal DDB and developed the world’s first interactive spots for Levi Strauss.
In addition to judging The One Show and serving on the D&AD and the BIMA juries on multiple occasions, David has also won over 30 major awards for interactive advertising including recognition at Cannes, D&AD, The One Show and New York Festivals.
Meanwhile Davis most recently freelanced with Publicis Dallas and has worked with Bob Moore, chief creative officer of Publicis USA, since his days at Wieden+Kennedy (W+K). At W+K Davis served as global interactive creative director. He has worked on a wide range of clients including Nike, ESPN, Microsoft, Miller High Life and BMW. He has won five One Show Interactive pencils for Nike, Microsoft and Calvin Klein.
Creative director Daniels comes to Publicis in the West from Favorite Color, a motion design studio in New York. While there, she worked with such clients as HBO, CBS and Ralph Lauren, managed multiple creative teams and worked closely with the executive team to ensure positive business growth in its first year. Prior to Favorite Color, Lindsay was at Digital Kitchen where she served as designer for four years. She won an Emmy for her work on the main title design for Showtime’s Dexter.
And Rusen was formerly with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, where he most recently served as associate creative director on Doritos and Cheetos. He helped to guide the recent Hotel 626 Web site’s launch and the new adult-focused Cheetos campaign. In addition, Rusen worked on Hyundai, Comcast, Saturn, Bud Light and Hewlett Packard.
Rusen also worked at Cole & Weber, Moffatt/Rosenthal and R/West, where he helped create the “Trunk Monkey” Pacific Northwest auto dealership campaign, which garnered awards from The One Show, AICP Show, and Cannes.
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