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.
SUPERLATIVE Signs Director Claudia Abend For Spots and Branded Content
Latin American director/editor and documentary filmmaker Claudia Abend has joined SUPERLATIVE for her first U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content.
Abend's empathetic docu-style POV has garnered several international awards for the documentary films Hit (2008) and The Flower of Life (2018). Her spotmaking credits include such brands as Procter & Gamble, Nestle and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. SUPERLATIVE has already worked with Abend, together producing a new ad campaign for digital agency Tinuiti and The Honest Company, a consumer goods corporation featuring eco-minded products.
“We found Claudia through her poignant documentaries on the festival circuit,” said SUPERLATIVE creative manager Stefan Dezil. “We are excited about her textured narratives, emotional storytelling, and her powerhouse long-form storytelling abilities, currently on her third feature film. As SUPERLATIVE continues to build our brand after premiering our latest films at Sundance and SXSW, Claudia is the kind of multidimensional artist we are excited to partner with on branded content and beyond. Fluent in English and Spanish, her reel shows real prowess with infants, food and skin products, families both young and old. Great visual storytelling and inspirational doc work.”
Abend began her career in her native Uruguay, studying film and editing in college. “My dad would show me films like Citizen Kane,” she said. “I love cinema and became an editor. It was here that I learned all about communicating human emotion.”
From the get-go, Abend hit it big as a documentary director, teaming with Adrianna Loeff on Hit, a movie chronicling pop artists of Uruguayan music. Abend took home a Best Editing... Read More