88 strong jury to judge the 39th AWARD Awards; Saatchi NZ CCO Toby Talbot named jury chair
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD) has today announced the full line up of jurors for the 39th AWARD Awards – an annual celebration of the most outstanding creative communications work in the Asia-Pacific region.
A total of 88 jurors made up of creatives, senior marketers, senior management, senior planners, directors and production company specialists will be tasked with selecting the 39th AWARD Awards winners, with online pre-judging from 23 February to 9 March 2018 and in-room judging 15 to 26 March 2018.
This year’s jury chairs are:
- James Dive, Special Projects, Scoundrel
- Tara Ford, Executive Creative Director, DDB
- Emad Tahtouh, Director of Applied Technology, Finch
- Ben Coulson, Chief Creative Officer, Clemenger BBDO
- Rebecca Carrasco, Freelance
- Kat Thomas, Founder/CEO, One Green Bean
- Grant McAloon, Executive Creative Director, Leo Burnett
- Tara McKenty, Creative Director, Google APAC
- Cam Blackley, Chief Creative Officer, M&C Saatchi
- Paul Middleditch, Director, Plaza Films
- Toby Talbot, Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi NZ
Says Mike Spirkovski, chairman of AWARD: “For the first time the jurors have been selected from a combination of creatives, agency CEOs, client CMOs, planners, directors and production company specialists. These leading industry professionals have been responsible for creating some of our region’s best work and know what it takes to consistently deliver award-winning ideas. The decision to do this was to ensure the work is judged by extremely qualified jurors who are highly respected in the industry.
“Running for 39 years, the AWARD Awards have become a huge annual celebration and a respected benchmark for creative excellence in our region. Each year, we rely on the support of our industry’s top talent to help identify and set those standards, and as anyone who has judged in the AWARD Awards before will understand, it is no quick and easy task. I would therefore like to thank our impressive list of judges in advance, for what will be a rigorous few weeks ahead.”
The annual AWARD Awards presentation will take place on Friday 25th May 2018 at CarriageWorks as part of the three-day Semi-Permanent festival of creativity and design.
2 Comments
Very predictable…same ‘old’ faces…just asking, but why has one certain prod co got three people judging? Time for a bit of reinvention, I think!
Given all the creative talent in NZ, you would have thought they’d pick someone who’s done something great recently.