Let The Wars Begin!

After a month-long delay due to the elections, The most-awaited ad awards nite has finally been set. The 2007 Kuwait Arabic Advertising Awards will be held on June 23, 2008 at the Al Rayya Ballroom, Kuwait. It's an annual ad wars hosted by the Kuwait University, showcasing creatives made by advertising agencies local and regional and by awarding the best campaigns in various categories. So, who's gonna be taking the shields? We'll see about that on the 23rd, My agency Pencil was shortlisted (fingers crossed) and hope to bring home some metals. We did submitted a handful of creatives! It's all up for the judges to decide, Good luck!

D&AD Winners

The creative industry’s most elusive prize, the Black Pencil, was presented to six creative teams at the D&AD Awards Ceremony in London. Fallon’s “Gorilla” for Cadbury won in TV & Cinema Advertising, “The National Gallery Grand Tour” by The Partners in Poster Advertising, “Get the Glass” by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, and Projector Inc, for “Uniqlock” in Online Advertising. Apple won two Black Pencils for the iMac and the iPhone. This makes the multi-national design company the biggest single winner of Black Pencils in D&AD’s 45-year history with six won since 1999.

Pinoy Creatives Shine

This is me and my fellow creative and painter, Eric Tabuena during the 2006 Annual KAAA Awards. The agency I worked before bagged quite few "shields" that night, (amazing for a local ad agency's first try), beating some of the industry's big names.