"Design is thinking made visual." -Saul Bass Mike Hughes, of The Martin Agency, and the late Saul Bass, a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, will be inducted into the One Club's "Creative Hall of Fame" at The Metropolitan Club in New York City on Thursday, March 4, 2010. Mary Warlick, Chief Executive Officer of The One Club, says, "The 2010 inductees both add tremendous prestige to the Creative …
Have You Hugged Your Freelancer Today?
Scott Goodson, founder and CEO of StrawberryFrog reflects on his agency's use of freelance talent, and how it differs from the way mainstream agencies hire freelancers. We worked with some of the best talent - all out of courage while the corporate agencies used them out of fear, never willingly admitting that they had freelancers on the payroll. No more. Freelance is flying and it's totally mainstream. It's big. …
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Cows Aren’t Just For Tipping Anymore
Omaha's Oxide Design scored with their poster series for Big Omaha, a tech conference conducted in the Silicon Prairie last May. The posters are featured in Communication Art's Design Annual 50, which arrived in my mailbox yesterday. …
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ADC Is On To You
At 89 years old, Art Directors Club--"the first international creative collective of its kind"--has been around the block a few times and seen a shenanigan or two. So stopping scam ads shouldn't be a problem for the group that awards ADC Cubes for "brilliant creative work" each year. ADC wants to make two points clear: Your secret is not safe with us. If we find an entry to be fake, the agency and client in question …
You’ve Done The Work. Now Decide The Jury.
I'm not a big fan of industry award shows. But The Andy Awards are bringing a new twist in 2010 that's well worth noting. Via Elect the Jury, the Andys aims to provide "the first globally crowd-sourced group of judges, that truly represents where we are headed as an industry." As you can see in the graphic here, I voted for Jureeporn Thaidumrong, David Byrne, Jeff Benjamin, John Jay and Rob Schwartz. There are lots …
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Turning Hard Work Into Hardware
If you're searching for the agencies with the largest trophy cases, here's a good place to begin. Creativity compiled results from six leading awards shows--ADC, AICP, ANDYS, Cannes, Clios, D&AD and One Show--to come up with this top ten list of most awarded agencies in the world. …
Crap On A Stick, Cont.
As you know, we like to give out specially made awards to deserving ads. The Bud Light ad above is the lucky recipient of AdPulp's Most Creative Use of a Bassett Hound In A Beer Ad. Congrats to all involved! …
Big Thinking from Small Shops
Ad Age has recognized some under-recognized agencies in its first-ever Small Agency Awards. Ad Age Editors, Jonah Bloom and Matthew Creamer say, "we had only two categories, Agency of the Year and Campaign of the Year, recognizing that dividing work by medium or discipline now is anachronistic." That kind of solid thinking deserves its own reward. Arkansas-based Rockfish Interactive was named Small Agency of the …
The One Club Takes A Stand Against Scam
Amidst the sturm-und-drang of this week's 9/11-WWF-DDB Brasil-One Show controversy, The One Club decided to take a stand with a new policy: Effective beginning in 2010: An agency or regional office of an agency network that enters an ad made for a nonexistent client, or made and run without a client's approval, will be banned from entering the One Show for five years. The entire team credited on the "fake" entry will …
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Pay To Play Or Go Away
Stephanie Clifford of The New York Times and Ian Schafer of Deep Focus made me laugh this morning. This is what did it: When Ian Schafer, the chief executive of the digital ad agency Deep Focus, won 10 Communicator Awards for the agency's work on Web sites, including one for HBO's "Flight of the Conchords," he was delighted. He was less thrilled when he received a note from the awards: If he wanted the actual …