World manufacturing outfit Buck is rising its European staff with a brand new workplace in London, the place it has employed James Britton as govt producer answerable for the corporate’s U.Okay. staff.
Buck’s current growth is hardly stunning. The corporate’s industrial work is distinctive and infrequently entertaining, and the corporate has ambitions to broaden its narrative output as properly. The corporate produced a number of episodes of Netflix’s Emmy-winning particular We the Individuals and it’ll launch its first online game, Let’s! Revolution! Later this summer time.
Buck’s U.Okay. workplace particulars:
- Buck’s London workplace is the second European-based headquarters for the corporate, which opened an Amsterdam workplace in 2021. The corporate additionally has places in Los Angeles, New York, and Sydney.
- Britton joins Buck from Stink Studios, the place he spent the final 12 years as group managing director and was instrumental in rising the corporate’s workforce to 120 workers. He has labored with world purchasers together with Spotify and Nike in addition to main U.Okay. manufacturers like Warp Data and iD Journal. Britton has a robust background in sustainable enterprise practices – he’s a non-executive advisor to the carbon measurement start-up Zevero – and can assist forge the way in which ahead for Buck as the corporate works in direction of a B Corp certification.
- Buck’s preliminary workplace workforce will embrace affiliate artistic director Jen Zhang, senior producer Jamey Kitchens, animation director Joe Brooks, senior designer and animator Bianca Beneduci, and a personnel with expertise in design, animation, branding, and experiences with artistic management underneath govt artistic director and companion, Vincent Lammers.
- In a launch, Britton mentioned: “For a few years, I’ve admired Buck’s dedication to craft and artistry. I’m wanting ahead to rising our staff of various expertise to deliver manufacturers, tales, and experiences to life right here within the U.Okay. There’s a lot artistic expertise right here—not simply in London however throughout the U.Okay., from Brighton to Bristol, Manchester to Glasgow, and all over the place in between.”
- Buck president Emily Rickard added: “After immense success constructing our Amsterdam staff underneath the management of ECD and companion Vincent Lammers, James is the proper option to proceed Buck’s world growth within the U.Okay. market. There’s lots of alternative with purchasers and expertise and James brings deep data throughout each areas.”
Pictured at high: We the Individuals
