AKQA has promoted Pierre Lipton to the senior role of executive creative director. In this new position, he will lead the entire creative department in the San Francisco office, which services clients such as Audi of America, Target, Visa, Xbox and YouTube. Lipton joins Brendan Dibona, based in AKQA's Washington D.C. office, as the two executive creative directors across the U.S. Both Lipton and Dibona report to chief creative officer Rei Inamoto who will continue to oversee the creative output for the U.S. and Asian markets. Since he joined AKQA in July 2010, Lipton has had a notable impact as the creative lead for several long-term accounts and new clients. In just his first year at AKQA, Lipton's creative leadership on Xbox, including overseeing Halo Reach, earned several pencils at the One Show Interactive awards, among other international accolades. For both the Xbox and YouTube accounts, Lipton has built entire creative teams of award-winning candidates. He has successfully attracted notable creatives from both traditional and digital shops across the world, including Crispin Porter + Bogusky, TBWALondon, Glue Isobar, John St. and Jung Von Matt….Heather Mitchell has been h ired as post executive producer at integrated prodution studio Utopic. Her most recent position was on the agency side as sr. producer with Burrell where she worked for 10 years on such accounts as General Mills, Toyota and Procter & Gamble….
Kamala Harris Receives Chairman’s Prize At NAACP Image Awards
Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on the NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night with a sobering message, calling the civil rights organization a pillar of the Black community and urging people to stay resilient and hold onto their faith during the tenure of President Donald Trump.
"While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us," Harris said after receiving the NAACP's Chairman's Award. "The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people."
The 56th annual Image Awards was held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in the Los Angeles area.
Harris, defeated by Trump in last year's presidential election, was the first woman and the first person of color to serve as vice president. She had previously been a U.S. senator from California and the state's attorney general.
In her first major public appearance since leaving office, Harris did not reference her election loss or Trump's actions since entering the Oval Office, although Trump mocked her earlier in the day at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Harris spoke about eternal vigilance, the price of liberty, staying alert, seeking the truth and America's future.
"Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask 'What do we do now?'" Harris said. "But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before. And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate. We advocate. Our power has never come from having an easy path."
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