News Briefs

G2 WORLDWIDE: New York City, named Raymond Kuhar creative director and senior partner at the brand development and design consultancy. Kuhar had been creative director at Designory, Inc., Los Angeles; he replaces Andrew Kibble, who left G2 this summer. G2 is a partner of Grey Global Group.

UPSHOT: Chicago, hired Jen Fieldman as planner and John Hospodka as information specialist, both new posts. Fieldman had been an account planner at McKinney+Silver, Durham, NC; Hospodka had been operations manager at Intertel. EMAK Worldwide (formerly Equity Marketing) owns Upshot.