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    Kris and Alisa Wixom Join GSD&M As Group Creative Directors

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    Kris and Alisa Wixom
    AUSTIN, Tex. --

    GSD&M has appointed Kris and Alisa Wixom as group creative directors. In these two newly created roles at the agency, the husband-and-wife team will work across GSD&M’s client base and report directly to Jay Russell, GSD&M’s chief creative officer.

    Seven-time Cannes Lions winners Kris and Alisa Wixom have worked together for 16 years in what they call “a harmonious union of marriage, creativity and hair products.” Hailing from TBWAChiatDay New York as global creative directors, the Wixoms worked on award-winning campaigns for Absolut Vodka, Skittles and Jameson Whiskey, among others.

    The pair got their start at Lyon Advertising in Austin and also held stints at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Fallon Minneapolis and BBH New York. Their client experience includes iconic work for brands like Budweiser, Brawny and Levi’s, with accolades from Cannes Lions, D&AD, Effie, and One Show Awards. Additionally, the Wixoms garnered an Emmy Award commercial nomination for their Absolut Vodka’s “Anthem” spot.

    “Kris and Alisa are an energetic, super-smart team with an incredible history of creating memorable work on every account they’ve touched,” said Russell. “They will no doubt inspire their teams to develop truly impactful creative.”

    “We were drawn to GSD&M’s unstoppable momentum and look forward to delivering unique creative work for their clients,” said Kris Wixom.

    Alisa Wixom added. “We’re excited to dive in at the agency and become part of this quickly-growing community.”

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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