Partner/Co-Founder Leaving NSGSWAT

In case you missed it, agency “mad boy” and Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners founder Richard Kirshenbaum earned a bit of press coverage in AdAge last Friday.

The reason for the interview was the pending move of his new agency NSGSWAT and Eighty-Eight, a “social media company in which his agency has invested”. The two will soon complete a transition from their former space in SoHo into a new office located on Lower Broadway “overlooking the World Trade Center.”

The interview positions the move as further evidence of the industry’s growing distance from Madison Avenue, but Kirshenbaum sounds almost traditional in saying, “I never pretend to be a digital native, because I’m not.”

Kirshenbaum also discussed growth and recruiting in the interview, and his agency has undergone changes beyond its physical location in recent months. In May, co-founder/creative director Troy Lumpkin left to pursue other projects, and today we can confirm that fellow co-founder and CD Miles Skinner has also tindered his resignation.

Skinner tells us:

“…after almost 4 years I have resigned from my partnership and position at NSG/SWAT. As of 8/28 I will be going freelance to work on a number of creative projects both personal and professional.”

It would appear that Kirshenbaum himself is the last of the three principals mentioned in Stuart Elliot’s 2012 profile. No word on plans to replace either CD.

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HUSH Lights Up Venetian to Launch Memory-Storing Tool, Lyve

Brooklyn-based design agency HUSH (who you may remember from their unique way of ringing in 2014) were tasked with launching Lyve, a startup offering a new solution to the problem of information overload, at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. To do this, they transformed two suites in the Venetian Hotel in the heart of Vegas into a completely branded space, complete with “lights, displays, and visuals to showcase Lyve’s unique offering.”

HUSH’s installation was “anchored by a large central screen flanked by a custom designed product display. The screens [showed] a collection of personal images and videos breaking into fragments and transforming into colored lighting illuminating the assortment of tablets, phones, and other devices arrayed on glowing physical pedestals below.” The visuals were designed as a kind of metaphor for Lyve’s collecting, sorting and protecting service.

As HUSH creative partner David Schwarz explains, “Lyve is an elegant solution to a persistent technological problem, and we were happy to help them define this product while introducing it to the wider world. In words, the offering sounds complex, but showing it visually feels simple – so we created a metaphor to discuss how the different technology platforms capture and share content all to one central product.”

While I’m sure you’d have to have been there in person to get the full experience, you can watch HUSH’s CES installation for Lyve in the video above, and be sure to stick around for credits after the jump. continued…

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