Dean Buckhorn has joined Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, as group creative director, having been recruited by Carmichael Lynch’s chief creative officer Dave Damman. Buckhorn’s work for clients from Coca-Cola to Miller Lite has gained international recognition for over 20 years, with awards coming from as far away as England’s D&AD and the Cannes Ad Fest. He is the author of the long-running TIME Magazine ad series that was named campaign of the decade by the prestigious One Club for Art & Copy in New York. He also created the popular Travelers Insurance campaign, which has won top honors from advertising professional groups for several years running. Drawn from the East Coast to the Minneapolis advertising scene during the ‘90s, Buckhorn spent two decades partnering with numerous art directors at Fallon, achieving success across a diverse range of accounts….Animated Storyboards (ASB) has opened an office in Santa Monica led by marketing director Allison Kurtzer, who started her ASB career in the New York office four years ago. Established in 2003, ASB has rapidly grown from a US based company, to a global company spanning four continents. ASB specializes in 3D cinematics, 2D animatics, photomatics and HD Test. With 6 other office locations around the globe, ASB utilizes multiple time zones to work around the clock and deliver materials quickly and efficiently. The ASB LA production team includes animation director CK Spitler, formerly a freelance director specializing in commercial, music video and film production, and producer Natalie Santana, who was previously a producer at McKinney Silver in Durham, NC. ASB’s Santa Monica office will house two edit suites, audio facility, and open space for animators, designers and directors. Some of ASB’s clients include TBWA ChiatDay, Dailey, BBDO and Goodby Silverstein….
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More