Recent Advertising Award Shows’ Results

2009 Clio:

http://www.clioawards.com/winners/index.cfm?maxrow=30

2009 One Show:

http://www.oneclub.org/os/os/showcase/?year=2009

2009 Andy:

http://www.andyawards.com/winners/index.php

2009 Bassies (Canada):

http://thebessies.ca/2009/winners.html

2009 D&AD:

http://awards.dandad.org/2009/

BTAA (British Television):

http://www.securio.net/btaa/btaa/index.cfm/fa/award.intro/year/2009

2009 Golden Drum:

http://www.goldendrum.com/competition/showcase/

2009 London International:

http://2009.liaentries.com/winners/?id_medium=6&view=icons&range=w

2009 Addy (actual ads can be searched on Google by ad/agency name):

http://www.aaf.org/default.asp?id=1001

2009 Cannes Lions (actual ads can be searched on Google by ad/agency name):

http://www.advertolog.com/award_show_winners/Cannes_Lions/year2009/

Seven Documentaries Every Advertising Creative Should See

Is Mad Men responsible for the rash of advertising documentaries coming out lately?

Julian Koenig vs. George Lois on This American Life (episode 383 – Origin Story)

This week’s episode of This American Life had a very interesting story on Julian Koenig, (Herschon Garfield, Helmut Krone, DDB) the copywriter/father of Volkswagen’s “Think Small” and “Lemon” (among many other famous ads) and his dispute with George Lois (Art Director) over who came up with what.

Augmented Reality – GE, Mini, EarthHour, Microsoft, and now – Make Your Own…

Good Client – Bad Client – 30 Things All Clients Should Know About Working with Their Ad Agency

Smashing Magazine – 10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website / Blog

Smashing Magazine published a great post today with 10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website and while at it, they included 40+ beautiful personal portfolio websites. Great stuff:

Best of TED Conference 2009 – Elizabeth Gilbert – A different way to think about creative genius – OLE !

TED 2009 took place this weekend 20 minutes from my place. For a few moments about a month ago, I was actually playing with the idea of paying the $6000 for the 3-day conference but then came reality – $6000?!? A few moments later, when reality kinda’ took a nap, play came back and said: