AKQA has hired Sung Chang as the creative lead on Verizon Wireless, for which AKQA has been named a strategic digital partner. Chang will be based in AKQA’s New York office and report to chief creative officer Rei Inamoto.
Chang has been in the advertising, digital & design space for more than 15 years leading creative teams, building new service offerings, and helping brands embrace and integrate digital to enable them to better communicate and connect to their customers. Most recently, Chang was executive creative director/sr. partner at Ogilvy & Mather worldwide, leading creative for Motorola, Nestlé and Castrol EDGE. During his eight-year tenure at Ogilvy, he managed a multi-disciplinary team and helped to expand the company’s digital offerings while working with clients that include American Express, Cisco and SAP.
Prior to Ogilvy, Chang helped build digital agency Red Sky Interactive, working with clients such as Sony, Nike, Kraft, Time Warner and PaineWebber. He also helped pioneer interactive TV at NBC Television, building out its Enhanced Broadcast Group.
Chang’s work has earned numerous industry awards for creativity and strategic effectiveness, including Cannes Lions, Effies and Clios. Aside from his agency roles, Chang works with students to develop the next generation of industry talent. He has taught architecture and studio classes at Columbia University and the Miami Ad School.
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More