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Don’t Let AI Dull Your Creativity

Nick Ursborne

And yet Does working with AI make me more creative or less creative? But back then, when you were hiring for an ad agency creative department, you wanted different. My creative partner was also different. I was the copywriter, and Peter was the art director. Thats how our creative ideas were born.

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In a world of AI-generated marketing, where’s the Creative Director?

Nick Ursborne

As a budding young copywriter in the early 1980s, I worked with an art director as my partner, and our work was overseen by the agency’s creative director. Creative directors were at the top of the pile in Creative Departments. They shaped the overall creative output of the agency. Try again”?

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People Round-Up, Mid-November 2022

Publishing Trends

Lisa Beech joins Nelson Books as Director of Publicity; previously, she was Associate Director of Publicity at WaterBrook & Multnomah. Erin Fitzsimmons joins Sourcebooks as Senior Art Director for Fiction. Greg Stadnyk is now Art Director for Atheneum Books for Young Readers and Margaret K.

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People Round Up, Early April, 2024

Publishing Trends

Joining Sourcebooks on April 11 to build the imprint are two editorial staffers from Katherine Tegen Books : Ben Rosenthal , who was editorial director, and Mabel Hsu , who was executive editor. They will report to Sourcebooks editorial director Jenne Abramowitz. Julie Schrader has joined as associate art director.

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People Round Up, Early November, 2024

Publishing Trends

June Park has joined as art director, previously she was senior designer at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Keith Hayes has joined as senior art director, he was previously creative director at Flatiron Books. Hachette has promoted Kirin Diemont to associate art director at Little, Brown and Company.

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2 Things to Know About Visual Content Strategy in 2019

Content Marketing Institute

He’s not suggesting you upset your relationship with your creative services or visual design teams. An automated tool can’t be as careful with your images as you and your art director will be. By night, he’s an avowed comics geek who consults for Marvel Comics and teaches and writes about visual content strategy.

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People Round-Up, Early April 2023

Publishing Trends

Martin’s Press , Danielle (Fiorella) Christopher becomes Senior Art Director; Katie Bassel , Assistant Director of Publicity; and Allison Ziegler and Michelle Cashman , both Assistant Director, Marketing. At Dreamscape Media , Lorna Henry moves up to Director, Strategic Partnerships.