Global creative and brand-
engineering agency ATTIK today announced the
hiring of seven individuals for its San Francisco office,
bolstering the growing firm's creative capacities and
strengthening its print and interactive production capabilities.
The appointments include Chris Streeter in the position of print
production manager, Pete Shirmer as senior Flash developer,
Denise Czaja as interactive producer, Mary Michael Pringle as
copywriter, Mina Buehler Monnee as junior art director, and
Jonathan Burkett and Ryan Lee as junior designers.
"We are now in our twentieth year of serving as the brand
engineers behind many successful companies, and one of our
specialties is in connecting end-customers to our clients'
brands through breakthrough content in any and every medium,"
explained ATTIK co-founder and group creative director Simon
Needham. "With our client list growing and many exciting new
opportunities shaping up, we have sought-out these very
talented individuals to join us as we continue leading the way
in crafting brilliantly effective marketing content."

Print production manager Chris Streeter joins ATTIK from Gap,
Inc., where he developed and produced the total retail
experience for Old Navy, including in-store signage and POP. A
graduate of California Polytechnic State University's renowned
Graphic Communication program, his past experience also
includes a stint with McCann Worldgroup's MRM Partners, where
he produced direct mail and collateral for Microsoft and
Charles Schwab.

Senior Flash developer Pete Shirmer joins ATTIK from his
previous post of senior interactive developer with MRM
Partners. A graduate of the New York State College of Ceramics
at Alfred University, his interests in electronic art led to
his pioneering use of Macromedia Flash to create interactive
presentations for art installations and experimental Web sites.
He began his career with Coombs Media, serving as lead flash
developer on projects for Kodak, Xerox, Bayer and EFI, and
joined MRM Partners in 2004 to develop Web banners for
Microsoft.

Teen marketing specialist Denise Czaja joins ATTIK in the role
of interactive producer. Most recently, she was a project
manager at imc ², the nation's largest independent, privately
held agency, where she contributed to numerous campaigns,
including Procter & Gamble's teen-targeted "Secret Sparkle"
campaign, which earned a 2005 Silver EFFIE Award and many
other top interactive advertising industry honors. She has
also contributed to high-profile interactive project work for
CBS News, Nortel Networks, Sony PlayStation and the US
Department of Health and Human Services, to name but a few.

Copywriter Mary Michael Pringle joins ATTIK from Butler, Shine,
Stern & Partners, where she had been a copywriter on the
agency's Converse, Diageo Wines, LucasArts, Noah's, and Sun
Microsystems' accounts. She spent her previous four years
contributing to account work for Mad Dogs & Englishmen. She
began her career with Condà© Nast as an editorial assistant,
after graduating from Vanderbilt University and Creative Circus.

ATTIK's new junior art director Mina Buehler Monnee was born and
raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She moved to California
in 1999 to study at Pasadena's famed Art Center College of
Design. Since graduating, and prior to landing with ATTIK, she
has handled numerous high-profile freelance assignments for
Buehler & Partners, 72andSunny, 86 the onions, Publicis & Hal
Riney and Wieden+Kennedy.

Junior designer Jonathan Burkett joins ATTIK from Berlin,
Germany's Kaluza und Schmid, where he designed print elements
for Bundespressekonferenz, the federal consortium for press-
conference oversight. An honor graduate of the California
College of the Arts, he has also freelanced on various Bay Area
projects, including creating album-cover and T-shirt designs
the band From Monument to Masses and others.

Finally, junior designer Ryan Lee comes to ATTIK from his most
recent post of designer for Delphi Productions, where he
crafted print and and environmental graphics for Adobe,
Medtronic, Novellus, Wind River and San Francisco's
Conservatory of Flowers, among many others. A Bay Area native,
while studying design at San Francisco's Academy of Art
University, he handled numerous design assignments for local
bands and boutiques ‘ as well as his own clothing company. He
is an active member San Francisco's Love Is Love art collective,
and designs apparel for indie clothing companies Rememberers,
Wizards & Warriors and I Get Awesome.

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