Why I like award shows

I have a post on the Karsh Hagan blog recapping the ADCD show. Check it out, if you're so inclined.

ADCD presents Chase Jarvis

The guy "feels like a crow on most days." And ADCD is having him speak Friday night. Too cool.

ADCD present Adult Swim

Lars Bastholm, Ogilvy's Chief Digital Creative Officer, injured his back and had to cancel his trip to Denver to speak in the New Denver Ad Club's Outside Voices series. But it's not like anyone is going to go into ad club withdrawal anytime soon. On Thursday, the ADCD will host Creative Director Jacob Escobedo and "Bump Man" Michael Cahill of Adult Swim. You can get details and tickets on Upcoming. And on Friday, the NDAC brings you Connect 2009.

Three Facebook groups for Denver creatives

The ad club, the art director's club and the Egotist have Facebook groups. Join them all to get news and conversation about the Denver market.

The ADCD show deadline is May 30

I can smell the spraymount.

The ADCD call for entries is out

Download the PDF.

These are the Intertubes I adore

The NDAC and ADCD share members on Facebook. Andy gets the idea to aggregate the event listings for all the area ad and design groups. More people. Coming together. Faster. To do more.

Tuesday NDAC and ADCD updates

• The New Denver Ad Club is having a Super Bowl party. See the attached flyer or newdenveradclub.com for details. XYZ Graphics is sponsoring.

• Fifteen people joined the New Denver Ad Club's official (mostly because I say so) Facebook group today. We're up to 55 members.

• The ADCD One Show event is coming up. I posted info here.

Karsh\Hagan, NDAC cosponsor ADCD One Show event

The Art Directors Club of Denver is bringing the One Club to town to present the winners of the One Show. And Karsh\Hagan and the New Denver Ad Club have both signed on as cosponsors. RSVP here.

NDAC and ADCD updates, please!

• Please buy a copy of The 50. Because I have about 300 of them sitting in my office. And they're just 10 bucks.

• Please join The Denver 50, which is the NDAC's semi-official Facebook group.

• Please join the ADCD to welcome the One Club to town.

ADCD photos online

Photos from the ADCD award show are at Bryce Boyer Productions. Now then, would you rather check out Norm's happy face or Creative Sourcebook's seriously hot, mostly naked models?

2007 ADCD award show

The Art Directors Club of Denver gives good award show. Always has. Last night was no exception.

The big winners in the ad categories were Cactus and Integer. Some other shops also took home multiple awards, like John Amatucci, Vermillion, Lee Reedy and Pure Brand.

In his opening remarks, club president James Pelz said some nice things about the New Denver Ad Club, of which I'm an overactive member. I want to return the favor. When we were planning TD50, we started by agreeing that ADCD was already doing a killer multi-discipline show. We didn't see any point in duplicating their efforts. So TD50 partially owes its structure to the ADCD. There's no excuse for agencies not to enter both shows.

Be that as it may, my agency sat out this year. But Thomas Taber & Drazen, where I worked up until last month, entered a couple things. And our - or is it "their," now? - 2006 print campaign for Colorado Farm Bureau Insurance took home silver and judge's choice awards. Stephen Curry, creative director of Lewis Communications wrote:

What makes this campaign refreshing is the simple credit it gives the reader for his/her own intelligence.

The best part of working on the campaign came after we sent final art out out to dozens of community newspapers across the state. We got media reps calling us to tell us our files were screwed up. The photo was too small. The headline was missing. That sort of thing. We had to reassure them that the files were fine. And our client deserves heaps of praise for saying yes to a very quiet campaign.

So it was a good night. And a tough act for the TD50 award show to follow.

Get another take on the evening from The Denver Egotist.