Creative agency Eleven has appointed Jeremy Gibney as a creative director and Rob Esmundo as an associate creative director. In their new roles, Gibney will work on the Apple and Dignity Health accounts and focus on developing high-level concepts for the brands, and Esmundo will work across multiple client accounts, including Apple, Oakley and Dignity Health. They will both report directly to Mike McKay, Eleven’s chief creative officer.
Gibney is an experienced designer with over a decade of experience creating identities for global brands both in agency and client environments. Prior to joining Eleven, he led the creative concept and development of brand user experiences at Gap, including in-store seasonal campaigns, window displays, lifestyle photography and custom flagship environments. Previously, he led the development of design and branding for GQ’s Best New Menswear Designers in America, Diane von Furstenberg, CFDA & Vogue, Product (RED), Havaianas, Threadless, Public Bikes, USA Olympics and Music Festivals Series including SXSW, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, and Lollapalooza.
Esmundo is a seasoned copywriter with 14 years of branding experience in apparel, online retail, hospitality, packaging, technology, health care and financial services. He also joins Eleven from Gap, where he served as an associate creative director. In his career Esmundo has helped brands such as Gap, DVF, Adobe, ING, and Meadowood Napa Valley connect to their audiences.
“Our agency has had tremendous growth in the past year, starting with adding Oakley to our roster and culminating with our BLAH Airlines campaign for Virgin America,” said Eleven’s McKay. “We’re excited to keep this momentum going in 2015 with the additions of Jeremy and Rob to our team.”
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More