Industry news and people moves
Art Directors Club Award winners; R/GA named Webby Awards Agency of the Year; People moves at TBWA\Chiat\Day, Los Angeles, Saatchi & Saatchi, New Yrok, Rock Paper Scissors; New signings for Hungry Man, Skunk, OPC

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•ART DIRECTORS CLUB AWARD WINNERS> The Art Director's Club announced the winners of its 88th annual awards in New York last week. Saatchi & Saatchi, New York picked up the most awards, nabbing Agency of the Year honors, while Leo Burnett won Agency Network of the Year and R/GA was named Interactive Agency of the Year. ADC Hybrid Cubes - awarded to campaigns deemed innovative - went to Crispin Porter + Bogusky's "Whopper Sacrifice" Facebook app for Burger King, 42 Entertainment's The Dark Knight ARG "Why So Serious?" and Johannes Leonardo's "Right Boot Store" for Nomis. Gold Cube winners in the TV/cinema category included Crest "Bulldozer", Nike "Next Level", "Swedish Fish Cat Sandwich" for Cadbury-Adams and Transport for London "Awareness Test". For the complete list of winners, click here.
•R/GA NAMED WEBBY AWARDS AGENCY OF THE YEAR> Organizers of the 13th Annual Webby Awards unveiled the list of this year's winners Tuesday, awarding digital agency R/GA, which picked up eight awards, the show's first-ever Agency of the Year award. Other big advertising winners were mobile agency The Hypefactory, which won six awards and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, which won three. Interactive winners included Wieden + Kennedy's "Coraline Website", Absolut's "In An Absolut World Friends Would Get Together More Often" web spots starring Zach Galifinakis, Goodby's "Wario Land Shake It!" for Nintendo and 42 Entertainment's "Why So Serious" ARG for The Dark Knight. Check out the complete list of winners here. The Webby Awards will be handed out at a ceremony in New York on June 8th.
TBWA\Chiat\Day, Los Angeles has promoted Rob Schwartz to chief creative officer and hired Al Kelly, previously of Fallon, as co-executive creative director alongside Patrick O'Neill. The agency also hired several new digital creatives: Jason Nichols joins as creative director from R/GA; Mike Kohlbecker joins as ACD from Crispin Porter + Bogusky; Alexandra Sann joins as ACD from Deutsch; and Dustin Artz, joins as art director from Team One.
Saatchi & Saatchi, New York has hired James Cooper as interactive creative director. He was previously consulting with interactive shop Dare and was a creative partner at Another Anomaly.
Global prodco Hungry Man has signed Aussie director Tim Bullock for worldwide rep, excluding Australia, New Zealand and Asia where he'll continue to be repped by Prodigy Films.
TBWA\London has hired Mark Hunter, formerly EuroRSCG, as executive creative director.
Skunk, New York has signed director Brian Lee Hughes.
OPC, Toronto has signed director Jorn Haagen for exclusive Canadian representation.
Santa Monica-based Rock Paper Scissors has added editor Elliot Graham to its roster.
Phoenix Editorial in San Francisco has launched a motion design and integrated media company called Bonfire and promoted Julia Sonder-Patchin from producer to executive producer.
Manic, New York has hired Bob Cagliero as managing director.
Hoboken, NJ-based prodco Arf & Co. has signed director Adam Karsten, previously of Bob Industries.
Venice, CA-based Restless has signed commercial and documentary director Jeff Feuerzeig for US rep.
Directing duo The Good Guys (Brian Jackson and Nathan Crooker) have signed with Planet North Productions for exclusive Canadian representation.
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