Martyn Dean has joined Chicago area agency Rhea + Kaiser as sr. VP, executive creative director. Dean began his career in London as an art director with Cogent Elliot and AMV BBDO before becoming a creative director with such agencies as EuroRSCG London and OgilvyOne Worldwide. Dean moved to Chicago in 2001 and held group creative director positions with OgilvyOne Worldwide, Razorfish and EuroRSCG. Most recently, Dean had been a creative consultant with national and Chicago-based advertising and digital agencies. He has led creative development for such global brands as American Express, Kraft, Sears, Allstate and Volvo.
Designer Dan Formosa will preside over the Product Design jury at this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Formosa, a consultant in design, was a member of the team that designed IBM’s first personal computer. More recently he established two design collectives–4B, focusing on design and gender, and Brainpool, focusing on perception and our emotional connections with products and brands. Cannes Lions introduced the Product Design category last year, acknowledging that as a global awards celebrating creativity in communications, it was essential for the industry that product design and the part it plays in brand communications is recognized. The category focuses on the applied use of physical products in aiding the communication of a brand ethos as well as its use to have a positive impact on improving people’s lives. To recognize the complexities and time taken to bring products to market, Cannes Lions has introduced a two-year eligibility date range for the Product Design category (March 1, 2013-April 30, 2015). The products the section caters for have also been extended this year, with two new categories for Toys and Promotional and Bespoke Items. Cannes Lions takes place from June 21-27….
From Restoring To Hopefully Preserving Multi-Camera Categories At The Emmys
When Gary Baum, ASC won his fourth career Emmy Award earlier this month, it was especially gratifying in that the honor came in a category--Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Half-Hour Series--that had been restored thanks in part to a grass-roots initiative among cinematographers to drum up entries. Last year the category fell by the wayside when not enough multi-camera entries materialized.
In his acceptance speech, Baum appealed to the Television Academy to keep multi-camera categories alive. He later noted to SHOOT that editors also got their multi-camera recognition back in the Emmy competition this year. Baum hopes that after resurrecting multi-camera categories in 2024, such recognition will be preserved for 2025 and beyond.
A major factor in the decline of multi-camera submissions in 2023 was the move of certain children’s and family programming from the primetime Emmy competition to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ (NATAS) Emmy ceremony. For DPs this meant that multi-camera programs last year were reduced to vying for just one primetime nomination slot in the more general Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) category. It turned out that this single slot was filled in ‘23 by a Baum-lensed episode of How I Met Your Father (Hulu).
Fast forward to this year’s competition and Baum won for another installment of How I Met Your Father--”Okay Fine, It’s A Hurricane,” which turned out to be the series finale. Two of Baum’s Emmy wins over the years have been for How I Met Your Father, and there’s a certain symmetry to them. His initial win for How I Met Your Father was for the pilot in 2022. So he won Emmys for the very first and last... Read More