Hewlett-Packard separately announced yesterday a consolidation of various creative and media assignments.

Rather, he will personally be handling important creative assignments.

Deutsch will also work on creative assignments for Old Navy.

The media consolidation came two weeks after Hasbro consolidated creative assignments.

Coincidentally, there was another decision on a creative assignment with billings estimated at $30 million.

It was then that a number of agencies were asked to take a creative assignment for V-8 juice.

The first creative assignments may be made as early as this weekend, according to a campaign adviser.

The creative assignment was one of three to be awarded to the office for accounts with combined billings estimated at $15 million.

Doner has handled the creative assignment for May since 1998.

She was fired for letting her students use vulgar street language in a creative writing assignment.