Ronnie Cooke Newhouse & Karl Bolander

RCN:KB is the partnership of creative directors Ronnie Cooke Newhouse and Karl Bolander.

Together, they have been responsible for conceiving and realizing some of the most groundbreaking and original advertising in the industry.

In the late 90s, Ronnie Cooke Newhouse was instrumental in evolving the New York creative landscape as the Creative Director of Barneys New York, and then Calvin Klein. She then moved to London and opened up her studio, where she created cutting-edge work that blended irony and wit with pop culture and authoring visual languages that traversed mediums and platforms for the likes of Comme des Garçons, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Alber Elbaz’s Lanvin, Fendi, the Tate, Alexander McQueen, Puig, Moncler, Topshop and Our Legacy to name but a few. In 2021, she was joined by creative partner Karl Bolander, the Stockholm-born former creative director of Acne Studios and a former member of her creative team.

Through their work, Cooke Newhouse and Bolander look to reflect all aspects of modern culture to create impactful messaging for their clients, and address diverse needs across advertising, film, packaging, brand consultancy and new media innovations. In their words: “We want to see things we haven’t seen before, and challenge ourselves to do things that have a certain and implicit depth of emotion.”