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Los Angeles has promoted Olivier Rabenschlag (left) to group
creative director of Media Arts, a new role. The agency has also
promoted Becca Morton and Gage Clegg to group creative directors;
Xanthe Hohalek, Patrick Condo, Bob Rayburn, Jason Busa and Allan
Manaysay to creative directors; and Will Hammond to global creative
director on Visa. Rabenschlag,
who will also keep his current title as Creative Director for
Activision, Infiniti and the GRAMMYs, will be charged with working
with the group creative directors to evolve the agency's creative
output across emerging technology platforms. His past work includes
GRAMMYs campaign, MusicIsLifeIsMusic, Activision's
There's a Soldier in All of Us and the world's first
Apple iAd for the
Nissan Leaf.



London-based live action production company th2ng has signed two senior creatives from advertising and film, John Clive and David Johnson, to its directorial roster, plus short film director, Oscar Sharp. Clive is an award-winning copywriter and an authority on digital special effects, while Johnson was DP on Tube Tales, a collection of stories about everyday people on the London Underground, and has worked on music videos for artists such as Kasabian, Oasis, James Blunt, Sugababes, Leona Lewis, Pixie Lott and Adele. Sharp has won various awards for short films Best British Short at BITA in 2007 for his film Forna.

