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    Justin Miller, Mike Pearson join John McNeil Studio as associate creative directors

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    Creative and strategic brand firm John McNeil Studio (JMS) has added associate creative directors Justin Miller and Mike Pearson. Both formerly of FCB Chicago, Miller and Pearson are longtime collaborators whose experience across a variety of sectors will help JMS broaden its approach, foster collaboration across disciplines and allow clients to engage more deeply in working with the studio to address their business challenges.

    Miller and Pearson have worked as a team with assorted brands across different industries over their careers, leading creative duties on Craftsman, Kenmore and Sanofi Genzyme while pushing creative capabilities for the likes of Blue Cross Blue Shield, Michelob Ultra, Rocket Mortgage and more. 

    Miller is a writer who’s built his skillset at a variety of Chicago shops like Leo Burnett, Havas, FCB and more, Miller became a deft storyteller and craftsman working for Cracker Barrel, HP and others.  

    Meanwhile, Pearson is a designer and art director whose experience in the creative industry goes back over a decade, similarly working with some of the largest agencies across a wide range of brands and categories–from Dish to Citibank. 
     
    Working remotely from Chicago as the firm embraces a fully distributed workforce, Miller and Pearson have already made their mark at JMS, having hit the ground running with work on a new identity and campaign for communications platform Intercom.

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    Production Companies MADRE and MADREFOCA Extend Reach To Europe With EP Carl Wyant

    Wednesday, November 13, 2024

    Reversing the traditional migration of the old world to the new, Los Angeles and Mexico City-based production shops MADRE and MADREFOCA are venturing into Europe and the U.K. with executive producer Carl Wyant at the helm.

    Wyant, former EP at Amsterdam-based production company 100% HALAL and prior to that the global Great Guns, will drive MADRE’s growth across the European and U.K. markets, working to promote the MADRES’ roster of talent to agencies and brands while bringing fresh European-based talent to the U.S. and Latin American markets. An industry veteran with global experience, Wyant is a custom fit for MADRE’s borderless approach to production.

    In 2022, boutique Mexico City production company MADREFOCA, led by director/producer/partner Jorge Aguilera and EP/partner Alejandro Saevich, founded MADRE in the U.S. with EP/owner/partner Jonathon Ker as managing director. Ker’s production house pedigree includes stints at such shops as Palomar and Limelight.

    With a roster built on bringing a Latin American gaze to the U.S. from MADREFOCA, combined with international directors from Ker’s previous U.S. associations and top-curated global talent new to all three partners, MADRE made its mark in the U.S. with the work of Aguilera, director team Kid Burro, Luisa Kracht, and Faride Schroeder.

    Over time, the three partners, Ker, Saevich, and Aguilera, began to contemplate the opportunities the MADRES might have in Europe to look at high-profile creative briefs from agencies and brands, as well as the chance to attract fellow U.K. and European production shops to Mexico--a region that has become one of the creative meccas of the cinematic world--for all the advantages of production expertise, talent, creative spirit, cost, and... Read More

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