AUCKLAND, Today: Design leaders Simon Velvin, Dean Poole and Ben Corban of Alt Group are organising a series of five business events that aim to keep us in the frame for “our imminent dynamic universal society”.
Arrivals & Departures: Sustainability focused PR agency in growth mode
AUCKLAND, Today: Senior comms professionals Richard Gordon and Tim Marshall have joined PR consultancy Wright Communications (“the first specialist agency in sustainability communications”).
Arrivals & Departures: Expedia taps LA Kiwi
LOS ANGELES, Wednesday: Publicis’ California-based digital agency for premium brands, Team One, has hired Kiwi expat Kirsten Rutherford as executive creative director on Expedia.
MDS student work on show at Aotea Square
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Diversity of student content from programmes at Media Design School have been compiled into a 28-minute playlist that started airing from yesterday on the large-scale (45m2) portable outdoor digital screen in Aotea Square.
Happy birthday R&R
AUCKLAND, Today: Marketing site StopPress sent reporter Erin McKenzie to the fifth birthday party of Parnell-based full-service creative agency Rainger & Rolfe.
Hennah leaves Special to start Australasian creative shop
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Angus Hennah, creative director at Special Group, is leaving the agency after three years to start Ampersand Collective. They’re based in Ponsonby Rd, where Hennah will take up the role of ECD.
Arrivals & Departures: The Pond enlists immigration expert
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Recruitment agency The Pond has unveiled a new immigration service for clients and talent with the hire of Fiona O’Sullivan.
NZME celebrates Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
AUCKLAND, Today: NZME is celebrating Māori Language Week, Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, across multiple platforms.
NZME adds the ‘h’
AUCKLAND, Friday: NZME has changed the spelling of their titles Wanganui Chronicle, Wanganui Midweek and Wanganui Chronicle Weekend Edition are all changing to include an ‘h’ as in Whanganui.
Not a production company!
Earlier this week, in a story about Chemistry’s new PlaceMakers campaign, M+AD described the outfit behind the shoot – Dusty Road – as a ‘production company’, drawing a (gentle) rebuke from Dusty’s Angela Hovey.
