Three people: a woman with short hair in a blue top, a bald man smiling on a blue background with “Kevin Walker CCO at BUCK” text, and a person with glasses holding a sign—all posing for portraits during the Pictoplasma-NYC-2026 focus session with BUCK and Duolingo. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Pictoplasma NYC 2026: Industry Focus Session Presents BUCK & Duolingo, September 18

Posted on August 31, 2026

New at Pictoplasma NYC 2026, a focus session with Kevin Walker, CCO of BUCK, and Derek Gieraltowski & Shandy Tsai of Duolingo explores where character-driven storytelling is headed and how strategies succeed or fail in branding campaigns. [Watch]

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Mobile Learning Platform Duolingo Acquires Gunner Design and Animation Studio

Posted on October 5, 2022

From the release: Duolingo, Inc. (Nasdaq: DUOL), the world’s leading mobile learning platform, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Gunner, a design and animation studio based in Detroit. [Watch]

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Duolingo World Brand Film by Gunner

Posted on August 27, 2021

From the team at Gunner: “Our friends at Duolingo let us off the rails in this non-stop thrill ride. The idea was to use the phone/app as a portal into countries whose language you don’t yet speak.” [Watch]

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