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.
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More