Big Wig Voting for Ausin Ad Fed

It's that time of year again for the Austin Advertising Federation's Big Wig Horror Show (Awards Show). The Ranch bloggers Matt Crump and Jocelyn Lai are nominated in the "Best Up-and-Comer" and "Ad Person of the Year" categories, respectively. In the "Educator of the Year" categories are also several worthy and deserving UT professors.

Go. Make your voice heard. Vote.

ADDYS wins

With a total of 17 winning campaigns including a Best in Show, 26 Texas Creative students were awarded Gold (7), Silver (6) and Bronze (4) ADDYs on Friday night at the Austin Advertising Federation’s 2007 Austin ADDYs at the Crocket Center. More info here.

The 2006 Cannes Advertising Festival

Leo Burnett Hungary has been shortlisting the top fifty commercials that they think are going to win at Cannes for several years now.

There's more Cannes news and ads at Adweek's coverage and Adage's coverage

edit There's also an amusing Cannes insider newsletter to peruse. It's quite cheeky and it comes from the land of bollocks and Beckham.

And adcritic has all the TV ads for view. for free.

The Juan Show is here!

So there's a new awards show in town. It's called, drum roll please, The Juan Show.

And guess who's behind this whole thing?

A little place here in Austin whose clients include BMW, AT&T, Kohler, and Southwest Airlines.

thanks to Jon for the news

2006 ANDY winners

It's time for a picture/ad dump. Click on images to enlarge.


Hardwood Rug


Armadillo bread box (from Boing Boing)

And here are some winners of the 2006 ANDY Awards (courtesy of adforum). Credits can be viewed at the ADDY website.

click on images to enlarge

Award: One Show College Competition winners

Congrats to Shaun Bruce, David Roth, Chase Quarterman, Shannon Burke, John Rekoumis, Matt Goodman and Cesar Torres for being print and logo finalists for the One Show College Competition!

Award: 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning photographers

"...To Irwin Thompson, conveying the misery of Hurricane Katrina through photographs required a steady professionalism, guided by human empathy. Mr. Thompson was part of an eight-member team of Dallas Morning News photographers that received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography Monday for their visual narrative of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina."


view Eye of the Storm here.

Award: One Show Finalists

The One Club has released the list of One Show 2006 finalists.

Congratulations to UT alum David Baldwin at McKinney+Silver for Art of the H3ist work! and to William Gelner at BBH for Axe work!

Please contact me if you know of any other UT alum who won.

The international scope of advertising is reflected in Ogilvy Beijing, Ogilvy Guangzhou, Santiago and other exotic sounding locales.

Take a look here

Awards: Webby Award Nominations

Browse through these websites- they have all been nominated for the Webby Awards (different categories).

A lot of it is really cool and very interactive. They have a minicooper site that lets you design a custom roof for your mini. I liked the Big Ideas Come From Big Pencils site, too. They list the sites by award topic, as well as by the organization/agency that created it.

10th Annual Webby Awards

Award: 2006 Austin ADDYS Awards Show

Congratulations to all the UT students who won!

Congrats to Jenna and Emily for "Sweetest Media Buy" for Match.com!

Austin Ad Fed