Creative studio Aggressive has expanded into a bigger collective: Loop, Niceshit, Andrey Trevgoda, and Melody Maker have come aboard, joining the company’s founders Alex Topaller and Daniel Shapiro. Loop is a multidisciplinary collective specializing in creative and art direction, visual storytelling, and motion design. Its portfolio includes cutting-edge videos for Adidas, and data-inspired projects for Intel, as well as cinematic and atmospheric opening sequences for Amazon’s Inside The Boys. Barcelona-based trio Niceshit consists of Carmen Angelillo, Guido Lambertini, and Rodier Kidmann, turning out illustration and animation work that’s notable for its playful character design, bold colors, and humorous narratives–from elegant line-driven projects for Google and Offline CBD, to complex 2D mixed with 3D pieces like The Feelings or live-action driven Shoe Show. Creative commercial and music video director Trevgoda uses his visual language to solve communication problems over multi-format media for brands such as VICE, TikTok, and Nestlé. Melody Maker started out styling artists like M.I.A., Rihanna, and Iggy Azalea before joining the cult youth brand BOY London as creative director. A veteran of The Mill, Melody has to her credit music videos for Gorgon City and Greentea Peng, the gravity-defying Oppo “Shake,” as well as films for clients such as Logitech, Gillette and Herbal Essences. Topaller and Shapiro teamed as a duo to garner Grammy, MTV VMA, The One Show and D&AD awards recognition. Their experiences have been exhibited at SXSW, Global Expo Dubai and The UN General Assembly….
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