Augé Reichenberg is joining McCann HumanCare, the consumer-focused health & wellness agency of McCann Health, as executive VP, executive creative director. Reichenberg joins from Rosetta Digital Marketing where she also held the post of executive creative director. Reichenberg led an 87-person creative department at Rosetta Digital Marketing, comprised of art directors, designers, copywriters, UX architects, medical editors, and graphic artists, across three locations, including London. Earlier she held senior creative posts at New York-based Young & Rubicam, MRM//McCann and FCB. Over the years, Reichenberg has worked in virtually every health and wellness category, on both consumer-facing and professional products. Brand launches and relaunches include national campaigns for MetLife, Spiriva, Prolia, Enbrel, Auxilium, Colgate Plus Toothbrushes, Prolia, Gilenya, Xiaflex and Allergan (Europe). She has served as both a Cannes Lion and Effie judge and her work has been recognized by the Art Director’s Club and healthcare awards such as the MM&M Awards, DTC 360o and most recently, the Health Care Clios 2014, and Effies in 2013….The Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors (ACSIL), a trade association serving the interests of the world’s leading archival footage and stock licensors, has a pair of newly elected co-presidents. Max Segal, director, HBO Archives/March of Time Documentaries, was elected to his third term as co-president, and will continue his work to develop a profile for ACSIL’s members within the international creative communities. Clara Fon-Sing, VP and general manager, Archives Sales & Strategy, NBC News, was elected to her first term as co-president, and will lead a new ACSIL Strategy Group to address industry developments and explore emerging business models to influence the commercial archives ecosystem. Each ACSIL co-president serves a two-year term. Additionally, Matthew White was hired as ACSIL’s executive director. White, who was the first president of ACSIL, has been active in the development of audio-visual archives since 1986, when he founded the WPA Film Library. He has also served in senior management positions at National Geographic Ventures and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where he was executive director of the American Archive….
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