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Among our favorite finds at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which wrapped up Tuesday at New York’s Javits Center, is the new Broom chair from Emeco and Philippe Starck. “It’s made of nothing,” says Starck. Well, almost. The latest addition to Hanover, Pennsylvania-based Emeco’s largely aluminum line-up consists of 75% reclaimed polypropylene, 15% reclaimed wood fiber, and 10% glass fiber—a new chair material composite derived from a compound of industrial waste from lumber factories and plastic plants. That’s where the sweeping up comes in. “Imagine a guy who takes a humble broom and starts to clean the workshop, and with this dust he makes new magic,” Starck says. “That’s why we call it ‘Broom.’” First shown last month at Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano, the chair is part of Emeco’s ongoing efforts toward zero-waste (remember that snappy variation on the 111 Navy Chair made from recycled plastic bottles?). “Philippe Starck and I have always agreed that it is not about recycling, but about restructuring production,” said Emeco CEO Gregg Buchbinder in a statement announcing the Broom chair. “Our aim is to prevent waste from being manufactured in the first place. Instead we use discarded materials to make things last.” Hear more from Starck in these three short films by Eames Demetrios, who as the grandson of Charles Eames knows a little something about chairs.

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Ready to pick a fight? World Wrestling Entertainment is looking for an associate photo editor to join its pugilistic, Lycra-clad creative team in Stamford, Connecticut. The position includes editing, retouching, color correcting, and resizing photography for WWE.com and other digital projects. The ideal candidate is a skilled problem-solver armed with an eye for color and composition, strong organizational skills, a positive attitude, and a mean double-underhook mat slam. The ability to name a few WWE wrestlers probably wouldn’t hurt (and no, Junkyard Dog doesn’t count). Did we mention that the company has a state-of-the-art fitness center? Click to apply for this WWE associate photo editor job or view all the current mediabistro.com design jobs.

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Once again, our tipsters were on the money. Sources familiar with the matter confirm that James Cooper is leaving his post as JWT Chief Creative Innovation Officer to focus on projects outside of advertising. Cooper joined JWT’s NY office in October 2010 after stints at Saatchi and Saatchi and Dare, London.

In a post on his personal Tumblr, Cooper says, “It’s no secret that to anyone that follows me that I have been wanting to do something more entrepreneurial for a while. So this summer I am taking some time out from advertising to do just that.”

Meanwhile, in a statement, JWT says, “JWT New York and James Cooper are parting ways at the end of the month. He’ll be focusing on some of his entrepreneurial projects, primarily Thompson Punke, a ping pong clothing brand which he has recently launched with Red Antler. He’s also planning to write the third book to be published by Creative Social.”

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-Draftfcb Chicago Makes Some Cuts

-JWT Appoints Co-CCOs in NY

-Sad: Publicis NY Producer Passes Away

-The Pitch Recap: The Ad Store and Kovel/Fuller Fight for Frangelico

-Mullen Opening West Coast Talent Hub

-Without Further Ado, Here’s PepsiMax’s ‘Uncle Drew’

-Muse Uses AMC’s ‘The Pitch’ to Pitch Racial Diversity to Ad Industry

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Less than a month stands between you and Dwell on Design, a veritable feast of modern design in the form of thousands of products, oodles of presentations, modern home tours, and demonstrations galore. This year’s three-day celebration, “Modern Beyond Expectations,” takes place June 22-24 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where Dwell has taken an additional 60,000 square feet of exhibition space. Among the highlights in store for the event’s seventh go-round are an exhibition of the best in Swiss design, an original installation by Oyler Wu Collaborative, and a screening lounge that will show films such as Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island and Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes. Featured speakers include Miami architect Chad Oppenheim, who will discuss the life-enhancing power of houses, and prefab innovator Mitchell Joachim of ONE Lab. The Brooklyn-based architect and TED fellow will speak about cities and how we think about all kinds of urban scale simultaneously. “Cities are always shifting and their smallest components can have the greatest implications,” says Joachim. “I call it ‘from the doorknob to the democracy.’”

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Memorial Day! Since it’s probably going to rain all over your weekend, here’s some sort-of-ad-related videos to entertain you. Or, more likely, to help you waste time before the bell tolls marking the end of this gods damned week. Videos, mofo, in yo face. This week, The Gatsby is greater than we remember he was in grade school, people get it on in Australia and some late week dubstep that will remind you of your childhood.

9. Fruit! It’s delicious and nutritious. Now that the word play part of this blurb is done, here’s the part where I describe how a juice company convinced some fruits to grow themselves in the shape of juice boxes. I’d like to try this technique on my gut, and somehow convince it to grow into David Beckham‘s abs. But then I’d still have these man boobs, so what’s the point.

8. You remember most of 7th grade, right? The random, uncontrollable erections, lack of body hair and more to the point, the shift from books like Goosebumps to actual books like The Things They Carried and The Great Gatsby. The latter was a bit hard for this writer’s 7th grade brain to comprehend (what with all those naked ladies floating around in there), which is best exampled through this trailer for the Great Gatsby. Old Gats seems like a cool guy with a cool car and superfluous shirts. My memory doesn’t recall any of those factors, but apparently they happened.

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Before we start yelling slurs at T.G.I. Fridays for being evil, can we first congratulate them on a stellar deal? An entree plus an appetizer or dessert for just $10? That’s recession pricing at its best.

Anyhow, as Pitchfork points out, the background song on the 2-for-$10 spot is a dead-ringer for a bad version of LCD Soundsystem’s 2005 breakout hit, “Daft Punk is Playing at My House,” right down to the tinny vocals and cowbell solo. Observe:

Well, even if you disagree, you now have an excuse to have a little private dance party at your desk on a Friday afternoon. Fun fact: During Lollapalooza 2007, I saw LCD Soundsystem play a frenetic set on a stage about 150 yards a way from where the day’s headliners, Daft Punk, were playing. As frontman James Murphy was performing this song, singing “you’ve got to set them up,” you could actually look across the field and watch the stage techs set up for Daft Punk’s light spectacle of a show. It was totally surreal.

So, how do you guys think we should punish T.G.I. Friday’s for what appears to be a lame ripoff or a modern dance classic? If you suggest we go there and take part in the 2 for $10 deal, I agree. That’ll show them.

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Deeply religious people, rejoice! You now have something new to complain about.

From SF-based freelance art director Marcus Brown and W+K NY copywriter Nick Kaplan comes “Tweets from God,” a way to prank your friends by sending anonymous tweets from the alpha and omega, God. All you have to do is enter in the Twitter handle of the person you wish to message, write them something that will make them feel momentarily guilty about a crime or minor sin, and click “Do It.” Your victim will then receive a tweet from @Tweets_fromGod and have no way to tell who it’s actually from.

Thus far, the Tweets from God Twitter feed has been pretty PG-rated, with most messages along the lines of “I saw that.” But, surely you creative ad types can take it to the next level. I mean, these are anonymous tweets we’re talking about, so you can say pretty much anything and get away with it. Visit the Tweets from God website here to get started, and wonder how the owners of the Twitter handles @TweetsFromGod, @God and @TheTweetofGod will feel about this.

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While we’re on the topic, might as well tell you that sources familiar with the matter confirm that Bryan Le has returned to his old stomping grounds at New York-based digital shop (or “trendy video game ad agency“) Rokkan. Le initially spent a year or so at Rokkan as a designer a few years back, but now, he’s moving up the ladder and rejoining the agency as creative director. Prior to his second tour of duty at said shop, Le spent the last two years at HUGE, where he last served as an art director.

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After a one-year stint at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Sergio Mugnaini is moving on to a fellow Bay Area branch, namely AKQA, where he will assume a creative director post. Mugnaini’s primary focus will be on AKQA SF’s Audi of America account. The creative is no stranger to the automaker’s biz as he worked on efforts such as “Robots” for the automaker while at AlmapBBDO, where he spent the majority of his career (seven years, give or take). During his career, Mugnaini has also worked at the likes of Ogilvy and JWT.

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-Well, we knew this was coming in regards to Dish’s Auto Hop. link

-In across the pond news, Leo Burnett snagged the 5o-million pound Co-op business from TBWA Manchester. link

-Facebook premium ads are now self-service, thank you. link

-Goodby celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge (one example above).

-So, this is how you live in AOL’s office for a long while and no one notices. link

 

 

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-So, who’s the most paid ad exec? link

-Production company Caviar added director Alex Stapleton to its roster.

-How’s about a nice long rant about advertising and religion? link

-Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant moves from Sprint to Champs–well, at least for now– in a new sport for the latter brand.

-Do you want see a CLIO opening montage? Well, do you? link

-Anomaly developed and launched the new website for Renaissance Hotels. link

-Apparently, Google kills 250K search links a week. Wait, can we Google these stats?  link

-Here are your 2012 Bees Awards winners. link

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Oy, not the best way to end the day but got word that Drew Putzel, who has spent the last four years as a producer at Publicis, has died unexpectedly. Our friend Joel Simon of JSM Music sent us this note: “The NY advertising community lost a wonderful person yesterday.  He was a dear friend to all that had the privilge of knowing him.  His name is Drew Putzel and was a producer at Publicis/NY.  All I know is that it was an accident that happened last night in NY.  Just thought you would like to know.  He was a stellar human being who was loved by all.  I believe he was around 27 years old.” We are not sure at this point what the “accident” was, but if we know, we’ll let you know and of course, our condolences to friends and family. You can check out more info here.

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The brains at Stink Digital came up with this interesting concept during downtime (and yes, it’s a side project), which shows us how Nike’s Fuel Band (hit or miss, we hear), to show the health of your Twitter tweeting. From what we’ve been told, the Stink guys built, designed and developed all of this, including the rig itself, in just over one week. Well, as you’ll see, the shop had some help from open-source electronic prototyping platform Arduino. Enjoy.

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Sources familiar with the matter confirm that Donna Biernadski, who joined Digitas at the beginning of the year as SVP/marketing for Team Sprint, is leaving the agency for the time being. We won’t specify things, but we’ll tell you Biernadski has spent 25 years in the industry, working as VP or SVP in some form at the likes of Wunderman, RAPP and Euro RSCG. The exec spent the majority of her career, though, at DDB, where she had a 15-year run and last served as VP/account director. From what we’ve been told by sources, Biernadski will “be transitioning likely within the next couple of weeks.” Due to the sensitivity of the matter, just play nice, people.

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“Why do we need three shawl cardigans?” J. Crew president Mickey Drexler asks a stylish gaggle of his buyers. He doesn’t pause for a response. “We don’t!” Put on your colorblock stripe scoopneck tee and old faithful-wash jeans, UnBeige readers, because America’s favorite hands-on merchant and his latest success story are the subject of a documentary that premieres tonight at 10 p.m. on CNBC. Reported by David Faber (get that man a Ludlow suit!), J.Crew and the Man Who Dressed America unbuttons the piped wool hacking jacket to peek inside the retailer, which has seen revenues rocket by 170%—to $1.9 billion last year—since Drexler took the helm in 2003. Even longtime Drexler followers and die-hard J. Crew fans are likely to learn something in segments that follow the months-long process of conceiving, creating, and marketing a new line of clothing. Did you know, for example, that the production of the J. Crew catalog requires 120 shooting days a year? Or that the Garden City, New York store is something of a laboratory, where window displays and merchandising are perfected—and where new stuff hits racks first? And we like any CNBC program in which a Gerhard Richter book makes a cameo among the cashmere (look sharp toward the end of the first clip below). Meanwhile, we’d love to see Drexler’s motivational mantra on a tissue tee: “Cut back, sell out, and be very happy!”

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Well, guess Hyundai agency Innocean has finally found a replacement for Jeff Spiegel as the Huntington Beach, CA shop has announced that Greg Braun has now taken over as executive creative director. If you remember, Braun parted ways, we suppose, with Team Detroit’s Pulse unit, which he co-founded and where he served as president/ECD for three years. During his career, Braun spent two years as EVP/ECD at Y&R Detroit and six as GCD at Saatchi & Saatchi. Now at Innocean, Braun will be spearheading efforts for, yes, Hyundai Motor America. We’re not sure, though, if Braun can handle being a Chicago White Sox fan in Dodgers country.

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If you don’t know the name Joe Burke, well now you know as the man who was a founding partner at Element 79 is now SVP/executive creative director of MARC USA’s Chicago office. The 20-year ad vet spent nine of those at Element 79 and ran the agency’s Gatorade business, taking the lead on spots for the brand such as “Michael Jordan vs. Mia Hamm.”

Prior to taking on the reins at Element 79, Burke spent 18 months as a creative director at DDB Chicago, where he worked on accounts such as Capital One. Anyhow, here was an internal memo sent to MARC staff this morning regarding Burke, who will take his post effective immediately.

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Pictured to your left is Grant Spanier, a young UX intern at the Minneapolis office of Digitaria (formerly known as JWT Minneapolis). While Grant has yet to do much of note since he got hired last Friday, the process that he went through to attain his new job is quite bizarre.

You see, the Twin Cities are home to terrible professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey teams. So, when watching old VHS tapes of The Mighty Ducks gets boring, Minnesotans have to get creative with the most mundane of tasks in order to stave off depression. That’s why for the past two years, the Minneapolis Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) has allowed local agencies to select interns by putting young marketing hopefuls through a process that looks a lot like “The Dating Game.” Agencies taking part in the 2012 edition of the InternGame were Digitaria, Periscope, Pixel Farm Digital, 3 Deep and The Nerdery.

After phone-screening a slew of interviewees, MIMA cuts the field down to 15, five categories of three competitors. Then, interested agencies grill interviewees with three questions to see who’s the best candidate for their internship openings. This year, Digitaria’s director of UX (and MIMIA VP) Jason Kleckner interviewed three potential interns, two on stage and one (Spanier) via Skype from a Starbucks in New York. So, what three answers for Kleckner won Spanier the internship? Read a transcript of Digitaria’s contribution to the InternGame after the jump.

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