The truth about awards

re: The truth about awards

Louis Halpern — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:43:08 GMT

I think awards are good for you reputation BUT there is an art to entering the awards and filling in the forms etc..

My agency has done many pieces of excellent work. But every time it comes up to enter awards the entry papers come across my desk and I'm always very reluctant sign off the submissions. You blog post, unfortunately, articulates my rational. Thanks.

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re: The truth about awards

Mark Tombson — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:50:18 GMT

normal :)

re: The truth about awards

Nicola Lucas — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:51:51 GMT

Can I just make a point Jack - George Eliot was not a transexual - they didn't even exist in those days, she had a male pseudonym, this did not mean that she was a man who used to be a woman or the other way around.

re: The truth about awards

Kevin Gordon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:12:52 GMT

Hi Derek,

Yes, I heard about what happened at the Lynx Awards in the Middle East this year thanks to a brand republic report. It's a crying shame when a few bad eggs infest the whole show. It corrupts the work of everybody else, and having worked in the Middle East I know it contradicts Islamic values, and that's a very very dangerous thing to do. We haven't heard anyone from the States on the Clio's yet. Perhaps we can make it a global chat and get a few more orders for Jack's mugs: Howdee doodee America!

Anybody still out there?

re: The truth about awards

Kevin Gordon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:48:11 GMT

Jack, nothing would make me happier than a free D&Ad (black one) printed on the side of a mug with the caption 'Not another xxxxing pencil'.

re: The truth about awards

Jack Gardner — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:52:49 GMT

That question could certainly awaken a sleeping leopard in my breast Kev. Before we get to judging let's talk D&AD Kev. Complete root and branch reorganisation before anything else. The only way Kev. First bring back Edward Booth-Clibborn as President. When he went the whole thing fell apart. He had authority, presence and people used to get drunk at the awards do's and shout *** at each other and have sex. The conspiracy to get rid of him would have made Machiavelli add a new chapter to his book the Prince named after his patrons little know son Pessary Borgia. Anyway Ted's demise robbed us of a charismatic intelligence that at least had a background in advertising. He knew what below the line meant alright. What have we got now I ask? Garrick Hamm as President of D&AD. He's a, wait for it, Graphic Designer. What we all know is that's a posh way of saying commercial artist. No harm in lowly honest toil but who would have predicted the day a glorified sign writer would be president of D&AD? And what has Mr Hamm done apart from take a wad of cash from Loewy. (Let's talk Smoothie and Coke and creative freedom la de da here) He put Hovis in a bag with a photo of sliced cucumber on it. And wins loads of D&AD's for it. Anyone smelling a Coypu here? Anyone beginning to twig why my Brighton poster got the toilet just so a Guardian, IAMONEAREYOU? 'Designer' solution could get the pencil. What's wrong with a still from the classic Parker film of a little lad pushing his bike up a hill? Update it if you like, put him in a hoody but the job was done. Instead we get thousands of people thinking they're buying a bag of cucumber sandwiches feeling ripped off when they sit down with their can of spezzie by the canal to find its just sliced bread. Poor people buy that bread so they can cut up the wrapper and put it between two bits of bread and tell their kids it is a cucumber sandwich. Apart from removing all the 'Bring back Ted' stickers from around Graphshite Square what is he doing? Lunching with Armani to discus international links? Persuading Sir Paul to sponsor a prize for best female ass in a music video? No he's going to help students. Yes you heard me, D&AD are going to help students. How? Remember Dave's memorable blog about the students he met being rubbish well, (Fingers inverted commas) It's okay D&AD are going to help them. Stand by kids, it's raining e's alahluya... Now the annuals and the yellow fucking pencil. Can we please stop this thing that graphic designers do of having ideas. Let's make the annual look like a cookery book. Let's make it look like a Mexican day of the dead sketch book. Let's make it look like a cheap piece of ***. Fun eh? Now the pencil. Let's make it look like a flute with holes in it. Let's make it look like mount Fuji. Let's stick it up someone's arse. Yawn. No Kev the only way forward is complete reorganisation. I know you were just playing devil's advocat when you said my poster was ***. Stick with me on this one Kev and (Wink touch side of nose) I'll see you okay when D&AD rises from the ashes.

re: The truth about awards

Derek Mullings — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:48:37 GMT

I was at Dubai Lynx. What a farce. We (Lowe) only entered three bits of work and won a Gold for MTV 'Chewing Gum' (AIDS Awareness).

Some agencies entered more than 200 bits of work!

(By the way, I've got a D&AD Pencil and came second to a Mr Abbott for my D&AD Silver Nomination.)

re: The truth about awards

Kevin Gordon — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:22:51 GMT

Come on then... having stabbed you in the front with a blade of truth why don't you tell us how you would organize a D&Ad judging panel?

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Jack Gardner — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:27:21 GMT

Funny, nobody else seems to agree with you that my Brighton poster was rubbish. I regard their silence as polite embarrassment at D&AD's obvious blunder. Enquiries for courses guides at Brighton were up nearly 4% on the previous year after my poster went up. Or was that just coincidence? Wonder what good, 'I am, are you one?' did the guardian? Hmm

re: The truth about awards

Kevin Gordon — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:06:32 GMT

Because your poster was rubbish!

Now get off the cross, somebody needs the wood.

That's why the Guardian won.

Swallow the bitter pill and take it like Jesus.

re: The truth about awards

Jack Gardner — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:37:55 GMT

Why am I being crucified?

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John W. — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:19:40 GMT

'the shallow emptiness of 'winning' by false accusation'. I like it. Cheating at golf is similar. You are only cheating yourself. Not that I would ever give my ball a better lie when off the fairway or anything!

re: The truth about awards

Kevin Gordon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:01:32 GMT

Well, Jack, Congratulations on creating your first Camel from what started as a wonderful racehorse. If nothing else, you prove what 'they say' (The D&Ad Committee) is true. Like Dave, I am going to stop now and let you 'win' so you can experience for yourself the shallow emptiness of 'winning' by false accusation.

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Jack Gardner — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:24:45 GMT

Dear God Kevin. I thought you worked at Saatchi's. You don't take acid, you drop it. As in I dropped some acid man. That's cool although not as cool as Kookie in the best detective TV show ever, 77 Sunset Strip, shot on Venice Beach according to someone called Vinny Warren on Dave's cst blog. As Kookie would say maybe he's 'lighting up the tilt sign' or has 'smog in the noggin'. Either way as far as I know Venice Beach is called The Lido. I remember a gay film called Sebastian set on Venice Beach in which an old man called Lord Marchmain tried to befriend a young boy called Tadpole, his sons best friend at Oxford. Did Chiat Day do Cornetto?