November 4, 2009
Now in its 15th year, PDN honors “the best and most innovative images of the year” in its PIX Digital Imaging Contest. R. Jerome Ferraro won first place in the advertising category for the Hoover “Clean Freak” campaign. Ferraro worked with art director Mark Brye and art buyer Julie Ahlman Sanders of The Martin Agency.
While Ferraro admits that consistently maintaining “the clean” is elusive to her house and office, she can relate to the campaign as she is a self-confessed “organization freak.” When bringing the six characters of the campaign to life, no less than 500 emails passed between Ferraro’s production team, stylists, and the creatives. Ferraro remarks, “[The characters'] evolutions took place with much collaboration, deliberation, and attention to detail. We wanted to imbed the meticulous nature of these people into a simple, quick read.”
Despite all of the careful planning, a minor hiccup occurred when the model posing as “the cat lady” turned out to be allergic to cats and Ferraro had to hold the animal in between takes. Ferraro remembers, “the stylist was working overtime with the roller tape on that one.” Allergies aside, Ferraro and the creative team crafted the worlds of the characters so effectively that people on the set were overheard saying “I want to live in these pictures.”
November 2, 2009
38,000 visitors are expected at Paris Photo, “the world’s leading event for photography.” Photographers from 23 countries will be represented across 89 galleries. Among the 500 artists that are showing at Paris Photo, Julie Blackmon is among the 20 short-listed works exhibited during the fair for the BMW Paris Photo Prize. The theme of the exhibit is “When was the last time you experienced something for the first time?”. Julie Blackmon’s artist statement for her photograph “Baby Toss”:
“This photograph expressed the universal primary experience of becoming aware of your own body in a new way. When being released from trusted hands into the unknown, you are as left weightless, gleeful, fearful, and euphoric.”
Paris Photo runs from Novembr 19-22, 2009 at Carrousel Du Louvre.
October 26, 2009
Neenah papers worked with the agency Addison to come up with the vision for its Annual Report. ilovedust was on hand to collaborate with Addison. Using all of the elements of Neenah, ilovedust created a graphic cover full of bold shapes for the eye to explore. Following publication, the Annual Report won a Graphis Platinum award. Graphis is an international journal of visual communication that maintains the ‘absolute highest level of creative integrity’, awarding only the best design and printed materials.
The annual report will be featured in the 2009 Graphis Annual as well as the Communication Arts Design Annual. View more of ilovedust’s award-winning work here.
This entry amended October 27, 2009.
October 22, 2009
The Lucie Awards is the annual gala ceremony that celebrates master photographers and their contributions to the field of photography. Congratulations to Michael Schnabel for being nominated for the Photographer of the Year award. Schnabel received first place in the architecture category for his Autobahn story that appeared in SPREAD Artculture magazine.
More images and Schnabel’s Honorable Mentions after the link.
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September 23, 2009
Born within an arrows flight of Sherwood Forest, Stuart Hall has traveled across the world assisting photographers in London, New York, Paris and Amsterdam. After winning a Fuji young photographers award, Hall embarked on his own path as a photographer and has since worked with clients such as Adobe, Mercedes, Sony, and United Way.
On his most recent collaboration with David&Goliath, Hall’s campaign for Cazadores Tequila won two awards at the Campaign Photo Awards in London. He received one gold in the black-and-white Multi-Image Campaign category and one gold in the black-and-white Medium & Effects category.
July 29, 2009
Simon Spilsbury‘s Seagull Series for the Paramount Comedy Channel won gold in the advertising category of the Best of British Illustration Awards held by the Association of Illustrators in London. This is one of many awards that Spilsbury has won, other awards include D&AD Silver, Campaign Poster Silver, Communication Arts, Print Magazine and American Illustration. Spilsbury has also appeared in Luerzers 200 Best Illustrators. Nonetheless, Spilsbury is thrilled to be honored and happy to keep drawing.
July 1, 2009
Every year Communication Arts publishes heavy tomes full of the best work in Illustration, Interactive, Design, Photography, and Advertising. In the 50th Anniversary edition of the Communication Arts Illustration Annual, Yuko Shimizu won not one, but four awards in the following categories:
Advertising:
-Print Ad for the Beijing Paralympic Games (pictured)
-Billboard campaign for Tiger Beer that ran in the United Kingdom
Books:
-Covers for The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, a four issue mini-series comic that takes place in historical Japan
Institutional:
-Article about the science, fact and fiction behind nightmares in Bostonia, an alumni publication of Boston University
July 1, 2009
Out of the 5,470 entries that were submitted to the Communication Arts Illustration Annual (an 11% jump from the previous year), five Bernstein & Andriulli illustrators won in the following categories:
Advertising:
Yuko Shimizu, Marcos Chin
Books:
Josh Cochran(pictured), Yuko Shimizu
For Sale:
Victor Gadino
Institutional:
Yuko Shimizu
Unpublished:
Fernanda Cohen
For a full list of winners, see Communication Arts.
