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Getty Images Picks Creative Leader for Its Top Team : Lewis Blackwell drives company's commitment to creative excellence.
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Getty Images Picks Creative Leader for Its Top Team : Lewis Blackwell drives company's commitment to creative excellence.
Getty Images Inc. (Nasdaq: GETY), the leading provider of imagery and related products and services, today announced the promotion of Lewis Blackwell to senior vice president, creative direction.Blackwell will drive trend research, art direction, and editing of Getty Images' leading visual content for the world's communications industries.
"Throughout his tenure at Getty Images, Lewis has provided outstanding creative direction for our brands, which has resulted in artistic growth of our brands and increased revenue for the company," said Jonathan Klein, co-founder and chief executive officer of Getty Images.
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Blackwell has played a pivotal role in establishing new standards for quality and responsiveness to customer needs in Getty Images' products and services.He was instrumental in transforming the Stone brand into what it is today -- an award-winning creative imagery epicenter that produces trendsetting and revenue-generating imagery.Blackwell has also served as group creative director at gettyone.com, Getty Images' flagship site that provides imagery and related products for the creative professional.Most recently, Blackwell has overseen the company's entire creative product, including directing advertising and design.
"The extent of Getty Images' commitment to uniting business and creative excellence is unique," says Blackwell."It is an honor to play a key part in evolving a company that is itself changing an industry.We work to improve our customers' work.It is a tough challenge to every day set out to anticipate the needs of the world's creative community, but the pain is nearly always enjoyable."
Blackwell is an acclaimed speaker, writer and influencer of global creative trends.He has chaired and taken part in prestigious awards juries and creative events around the world and has been a visiting professor at the leading Swiss design school, ECAL.
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Prior to joining Getty Images, Blackwell led "Creative Review" magazine, the highly respected international review of the communication arts industry, where he rose to be both editor-in-chief and publisher.He has also worked as a creative consultant directly with leading advertising and design agencies.