Spring Studios–a creative agency and production studio creating premium branded content and experiences for global brands–has appointed Nicole V. Cramer as global chief of staff working across its offices in London, New York, Milan and Los Angeles. Cramer will report into Spring Studios’ global president and chief creative officer Tom Punch, working closely with him, the leadership team and staff worldwide. Cramer joins Spring Studios after a two-year hiatus from the advertising industry during which time she has been running two of her own companies: brand consultancy NicNic Productions and My Grandma Baked A Cookie, a small-batch baking company. She started her first company at the age of 18. She has spent over 15 years in global operations roles in some of the world’s leading marketing communications companies, including JWT, DDB Worldwide and most recently as SVP and global chief of staff at McCann Worldgroup. She also has 20 years of consulting experience. A graduate of Cornell University, the United Nations International School, and Mannes College of Music, Cramer is certified by REACH personal branding and also by the Health Coach Institute. She has also worked with numerous charitable organizations….
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