Awards

Just so Courtney doesn't sue us, I won't show the Doc Martens ad featuring Kurt Cobain in heaven. It was only supposed to be seen in a British music magazine. But the International Herald Tribune has more on what happened next: The trouble began when an employee - disobeying instructions, Saatchi insisted - submitted the images to www.adcritic.com, a U.S.-based ad industry Web site. In the United States, the estates …

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It's not an ad, per se, but it is an idea. And a pretty cool one, at that. See it here. The rest of the winners are listed at The One Club website. Looks like TBWA/Chiat/Day got a lot of pencils for its Skittles and Combos work, like this spot: Was anyone there at the show? Tell us your first-hand accounts. …

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The promo brochure for the Dubai Lynx Awards sets a real haughty tone for the new awards show, as written by Jonathan Harries, the global Creative Director of Draft/FCB: What if we had an awards show where we took all the good things from other awards shows, and none of the bad? If we said to people, “Bring your great ideas, your brilliant layouts, your mindblowing copy, your wonderful sense of design and editing, …

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Last year, I wrote about the Addy dominance of Tampa agency Pyper Paul + Kenney. They won 127 Tampa Addys. This year, they only had a modest increase in performance, winning a mere 129 Addys. Will we see more substantial improvement from PP+K next year? Let's hope so. I still wanna know how much in entry fees this costs them. …

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I'll admit I didn't study the Art Directors Club call for entries poster when it came in the mail a couple of weeks ago: It's intended to be the "Final Call For Entries." But over at Little Green Footballs, a right-leaning political blog, the poster was interpreted like this: It’s an impressive panoply of moonbat leftist self-loathing, a desolate nuclear wasteland populated by Republican political leaders holding …

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Okay, I'll make this ad-related in a minute... ...but how insane is it that airport security wouldn't let Troy Smith bring his Heisman Trophy on the plane???? Now, here's my question for all you award-show winners: Has anyone had trouble carrying a One Show Pencil on the plane? Or a Cannes Lion? What about your oversized portfolio cases or unusual photography equipment? Do you get any extra scrutiny? Has anyone from …

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created by The Ad Workers Local in Milwaukee [via Tom Monahan's blog, Before & After] …

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Drunken debuachery in Chicago. I'm stunned. Lewis Lazare and his bow tie attended the fourth annual Chicago Creative Club Awards recently. What he found there disturbed him. Here's what he found: Hundreds of local creatives who were well on their way toward total inebriation. As they have at CCC shows in years past, members of this city's ad industry proved they have no respect for their peers, their creative output …

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