Emmy award-winning media designer DAVID MIKALOS has joined MEDIA IMAGERY, Cherry Hill, as head of its expanded graphic design, animation, composting, and media capabilities. He spent the last seven years as senior designer at CN8-The Comcast Network, winning an Emmy in 2002 for outstanding production design. ALAN GRANT, co-founder of WORDS & MUSIC radio ad production studios, Bridgewater, performed with his group Primative Soul at The Underground Pub in Hillsborough on January 13. As lead guitar and vocalist, Grant has appeared as a soloist and with his four-member group in Europe and in United States. Strategy and design firm DM.2, Edgewater, has been selected by Sony Business-to-Business Division to provide marketing and creative support for its product launch of Picture Station, Slimline and Deluxeline Kiosks. Picture Station is being located in high-traffic retail chains to provide customers with convenient, fast and user-friendly technology to edit, scan, print and/or save digital photography on the spot. Berlin (NJ) Community School’s Gifted and Talented Program students visited the Cherry Hill offices of THE STAR GROUP for a hands-on look at how a marketing communications firm operates. The students’ enthusiasm for advertising and public relations, which they studied during the fall semester, was equally matched by their commitment to helping those in need. Well aware that The Star Group and CEO LINDA ROSANIO work closely with the American Red Cross, the fourth and fifth graders in the Gifted and Talented Program mounted a school-wide raffle, donating the $1,000 proceeds to American Red Cross to benefit children affected by Hurricane Katrina. The agency was also selected by American Christmas — the dominant leader in the multi-million-dollar holiday market — and won a three-year contract to handle the Delaware Lottery. MARY PADULA, a 17-year veteran of the firm and head of media operations based in the Philadelphia office, has been named a managing partner.
CHRIS APOSTLE has joined the SIGMA GROUP, Oradell, as director of strategic planning, responsible for growing the agency through new client development, strategic alliance formation and account direction. He joins the agency after being president of the branded entertainment firm Gold Group, and, still earlier, he was founder, president and CEO of FusionPoint. THE MARATHON GROUP, Mount Laurel, has hired ASHLEY M. HESS as account coordinator. She is responsible for the day-to-day management of client accounts and for administration and assistance to account executives and the director of client services. A Temple University alumna, she was the account manager for Diamond Edge Communications, the student-run advertising agency where she ran a five-member team. Hess was a media planning and buying intern for MAYOSEITZ MEDIA INC. NJ ADCLUB treasurer and CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR account executive MARVIN STRAUZER serves on the special marketing board for The Boys and Girls Clubs of NJ. When Kenny Rogers appeared at last fall’s Third Annual Concert For Kids at NJPAC, Strauzer was there to greet him (along with more than 2,000 in attendance). S3, Boonton, unveiled a new Web site it created for TRI-K Industries, a major supplier of raw materials to the personal care industry. The new site features a more intuitive interface than its predecessor and is designed to generate marketing synergies with TRI-K’s printed materials. The agency also added MICHAEL DILLON as associate creative director/copy. He most recently served senior copywriter for the LUNAR GROUP. Earlier, he worked Welch Nehlen Groome in NYC.
LANDMARK GROUP INC., Eatontown, has promoted DEREK VANVOLKHOM
to vice president/account supervisor; C. RYAN TROUTMAN to vice president/ account supervisor; and DANIELLE MALYSKA and ANDREW RUSIN to senior account executives. This was VanVolkham’s third promotion in his seven years with Landmark and the first for Rusin in his two years at the agency. Landmark also hired ILAM SHAH as public relations assistant. Shah, who holds a BA degree in Mass Communications from East Tennessee State University, comes to agency from Manning, Selvage & Lee Public Relations, where she was an account associate.
MILLER/POOR ASSOCIATES has relocated offices to a new location in Verona, after over 20 years at its first site. The new address is 261Bloomfield Avenue. Telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged, as does the e-mail address. PFS MARKETWYSE won a Gold Award in the 2005 International Davey Awards in the print and collateral category for the Dendrite annual report/corporate brochure. The largest truck-driver training school in the east, Smith & Solomon, has picked BLOCK ADVERTISING AND MARKETING for its first multi-state advertising and PR campaign. Block also named CARLA PUGLIESE DEAN as an account executive. She had been an assistant to agency partner Bill DeCorso. Thanks to the generosity of the NJ AdClub members and board of directors, $1,000 was raised and donated in memory of LEWIS KRAUT to the Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center in West Orange. The Center supports such patient-service programs as the Tree of Life Celebration, the Friends of Hospice Tea and Book Donation. The ART DIRECTORS CLUB OF NEW JERSEY is holding its annual scholarship competition for students enrolled in a two- or four-year college, university or recognized art school in the state of New Jersey or residing in New Jersey and attending an out-of-state college or university. ADCNJ will accept a maximum of 20 student portfolio entries from each school. Each portfolio should contain a maximum of eight pieces in the following categories: advertisements, brochures, logos, sales promotion materials, publications, story boards, hand lettering, book jackets, posters, typography, illustration, web design, interactive design, multimedia and animation. All portfolios must be submitted by the academic institution and hand delivered to County College of Morris, 214 Center Grove Rd., Randolph, NJ, on April 1. Winners will be notified by April 12, 2006. Forms are available by going to the Web site www.adcnj.org. MASTERMINDS ADVERTISING, Egg Harbor, has promoted LANI BOUCHACOURT to account supervisor, overseeing the Gold Strike Casino and Cape Advisors accounts. A graduate of the University of Alaska, Bouchacourt had been senior account executive on the agency’s largest and most complex account — Beau Rivage. Read March 2006 Ad Talk | 
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