Creative Head Warner Leaving The Richards Group

The official word remains “mum,” but sources close to the matter confirm that Carl Warner, creative group head at The Richards Group, will soon leave the agency to launch his own venture.

The move will end one of Warner’s multiple stints with Richards, where he was an art director in the 80’s before serving as CD at DDB Dallas and Team One. He joined the JWT organization as a creative director in its Detroit office in 2003 before the agency moved him to Atlanta, and from 2006 to 2011 he ran that office as co-president/ECD in partnership with former GM Tony Accurso.

JWT South hired Rob Quish as its new CEO in 2010, and in late 2011 he decided to part ways with Warner in a standard internal executive “shakeup.” Warner then spent less than a year as ECD at Atlanta’s Engauge.

This won’t be the first time the CD has broken off to lead an independent operation: after leaving the aforementioned agency in the summer of 2012, he launched his own Warner venture, working for various clients before returning to Richards as creative group head in early 2013.

The Richards Group has no comment at this time on Warner’s departure, the details of which remain unclear. Sources tell us he will announce the launch of his new project later this summer.

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Après l’excellente série Bodyscapes, voici les paysages de Carl Warner basés uniquement sur des denrées alimentaires : biscuits, pain ou encore légumes deviennent montagnes, maisons ou visages. Le travail de cet Arcimboldo moderne est résolument féérique. Une très belle série à voir dans l’article.

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Warner Returns to Richards Group

Well, this is news to us, but Carl Warner, who’s spent the last several years in Atlanta, first at JWT then briefly at Engauge, has returned to his old stomping grounds at Dallas-based The Richards Group, where he now serves as creative group head. We’ve been told this is actually Warner’s third stint at Richards, where he initially started in the ’80s as an art director.

Most recently, as mentioned, Warner had a seven-month stint at Engauge after spending nearly six years at JWT ATL, where he last served as co-president/ECD before the latter agency parted ways with him in summer 2011. No word yet on what Warner’s current title exactly entails or what accounts he’s “head” of, but last we heard from Richards Group, of course, was when the Texas stalwart put out the Ram “God Made a Farmer” Super Bowl spot this year.

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