Dom Butler and Liam Riddler (known as Dom & Liam) have joined McCann London. The multi-award winning creative team had been at Grey London since 2013. While at Grey they worked together as creative leads for WildAid and for clients including Gillette and The Times/Sunday Times. They also contributed to pitch wins for Scope, McVitie’s, Braun, General Mills and Post-it. Awards recognition for Dom & Liam includes two recent Cannes Lions Silvers and a Euro Effies Gold and Silver last year. Liam, while at 303 Mullen Lowe in Australia from 2011-2013, had previously won Gold in the Australian Cannes Young Lions and also took Silver in the global competition. Dom meanwhile picked up a number of his own accolades as a student (D&AD Best New Blood, YCN and One Show), followed by The Drum Print Ad of the Year in 2013….
Aero Film has signed director Dara Bratt, marking the first time she’s joined the roster of a commercial production company. Her credits include the short film In Vivid Detail, the poetic butterfly tale Flutter, shot in Vietnam, and the feature documentary The Singing Abortionist. She also wrote and directed several beauty and lifestyle spots for L’Oreal and Maybelline….
Independent San Francisco creative agency Cutwater has brought Melissa Macarian on board as an art director. She will be working across all of Cutwater’s accounts including Brawny, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, MDsave and American Giant. Prior to Cutwater, Macarian served as an art director for The Brooklyn Brothers where she spearheaded numerous campaigns including the launch of Blink Fitness (an Equinox company). Macarian started her advertising career at Crispin Porter+Bogusky in Miami and eventually relocated to New York where she was a designer at Rosie Labs LLC….
