WELLINGTON, Sunday: Yet another outstanding winner has emerged from the weekend’s Best Design Awards: Steve Le Marquand and Rik Campbell, founders of creative digital agency Resn, were named this year’s recipients of the John Britten Black Pin, recognising leadership, vision and achievement.
Rush in a hurry at Best
AUCKLAND, Saturday: Design & tech studio Rush was another good winner at the Best Design Awards, taking home three Golds and one of the top accolades – a Purple Pin – on the their first ever visit to the Best competition.
Saatchi fuses sound & animation in ‘groundbreaking’ campaign
Saatchi & Saatchi has created a groundbreaking campaign for client Bay Audiology that uses the fusion of sound waves and animation in a totally new way. Saatchi’s production partners were Starcom, Flux and Liquid.
Boost on top again at Promo Product Awards
AUCKLAND, Today: NZ promotional marketing agency Boost Promotions has won six major awards – including the supreme Platinum – at the APPA Promotional Product Awards.
PR gets its day in the sun
AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council has unveiled a new annual awards programme to recognise NZ’s best PR, experiential and social media campaigns.
FCB, Resn, Alt, Assembly, Clemenger share spoils at Design Awards
AUCKLAND, Saturday: From a story of a goat that combats real-world bullying, to an exhibition questioning NZ’s national typeface – the best in New Zealand design for 2018 has been revealed.
PowerShop taps Chinese-Kiwi agency
Shanghai/NZ-based Chinese digitial agency United Media Solution has been appointed by electricity provider PowerShop to build its brand with Chinese Kiwis in New Zealand.
JWT & Yukfoo gas up with Caltex
AUCKLAND, Today: Caltex NZ has debuted its new It’s a local thing positioning with a new campaign from J Walter Thompson and Yukfoo Animation.
Stand by, caller
Maureen Sinton (BA, MCS, AUT) is a PhD student at Auckland University of Technology. She is a former prominent talk radio producer, television producer, and television programmer. Her research interests include talk radio and public service radio. She agreed to a short interview with M+AD Daily …
Droll, fresh-faced Hilux tvcs extend campaign
Saatchi & Saatchi NZ has created a suite of three new 15 second tvcs for Toyota Hilux – uniquely droll Kiwi ads which have drawn on the ‘less is more’ communication style of a fair few of its drivers – to add to the launch campaign from October.
