
| by: | May 15, 2007 |
•FALLON LONDON'S TATE TRACKS WINS BIG AT ONE SHOW > A music project for London's Tate Modern claimed the best in show prize at the 32nd annual One Show awards gala in New York last week. For "Tate Tracks," Fallon London asked British pop and hip-hop acts such as The Klaxons, The Long Blondes and Roll Deep to find a piece of artwork from the gallery that inspired them and write a track. The People's Choice Award went to a Thai online video game spot by Bangkok agency Jam Jeh United, Ltd, while TBWA\Chiat\Day New York nabbed TV gold for its Skittles work, as did Ogilvy & Mather Toronto's Dove "Evolution" and Santo Buenos Aires "Bald" campaign for Arnet. Top interactive honors went to the R/GA Agency for its Nike+ micro-chip implanted running shoe.
http://www.oneshow.tv
•DOVE 'EVOLUTION' NABS TOP HONORS AT CANADA'S BESSIES>Creatives at Toronto's Ogilvy & Mather kicked off their award-winning week at their hometown award show, the Bessies. The notoriously long show was so successful at keeping things short this year, it felt like the ceremony was on digital fast-forward, allowing producers and creatives to start their boozing and schmoozing a full 45-minutes ahead of schedule. "Evolution" for Dove won the Best of Show single and a gold, while Best of Show campaign honors went to Cossette's work for The Fight Network. Other gold winners included DraftFCB's "Beautiful Day" for World Wildlife Fund, Rethink's "House Warming" for Bell Solo Mobile, Rethink's "Fabric Softener" for the Canadian Football League and Dentsu Canada's "Avacadro" for Wayspa, Taxi Toronto's "Other Guys" for Nike and Spring Advertising's "Boobarian" for Canadian Direct Insurance.
http://www.bessies.ca.
•CANNES VLOG PROMISES TO DISH THE DIGITAL DIRT> Draw Pictures and Asabailey's unofficial video blog, the Cannes Fringe, returns to the festival this year to feature daily video bulletins with party highlights, Gutter Bar antics and interviews, with a particular focus on digital advertising. The site will be promoted to attendees during the festival and is online here:
http://www.cannesfringe.com
•NEW PRODCO, FFAKE, OPENS IN PORTLAND> Industry vet Paul Golden has started a new production company based in Portland called FFAKE. The roster includes animation directors Carl Willat, Nicholas Weigel and the Maverix Art Collective, as well as David Lobser, Peter Richardson and Ben Meinhardt. Golden was most recently the president of advertising at Portland's Vinton Studios (now Laika).
http://www.ffake.com
Nitro New York has tapped Kathy Delaney, formerly CCO at Deutsch as head of its creative office.
http://www.nitro-group.com
Mike Lescarbeau has left his creative director post at Ogilvy New York to become president/CCO at Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis.
http://www.carmichaellynch.com
Burbank's EDGE Creative has hired David Hershey as vice president of creative.
http://www.edgecreative.com
LA's Paranoid U.S. has signed director Nicole McDonald.
http://www.paranoidus.com
US, London and Paris-based Partizan has signed director Mattieu Mantovani for worldwide spot and video rep.
http://www.partizan.com
London's Black Dog Films has signed director Price James for worldwide spot and music video rep.
http://www.blackdogfilms.co.uk
Sydney's Plaza Films has signed director Nick Robertson, previously of @radical.media.
http://www.plazafilms.com.au
Hollywood-based director Stewart Hendler has signed with Über Content for exclusive US spot rep.
http://www.ubercontent.com
LA prodco Fools and Horses has signed Australian director Jon Gwyther for US representation.
http://www.foolsandhorses.tv
Digital studio Radium has announced new hires in LA and San Francisco. In LA, VFX artist and supervisor Marcus Stokes and Hatem Ben Abdallah have joined as creative directors, and Dariush Derakhshani has been promoted to creative director. Design team Tom Bonauro and Ken Woodard have joined the San Francisco office.
http://www.radium.com
Minneapolis agency OLSON has hired writer Noah Will, previously of Wongdoody.
http://www.oco.com
Santa Monica editorial house Cosmo Street has signed editor Bill Chessman.
http://www.cosmostreet.com
New York's Bang/MOD Productions has named Julian Duff, formerly of William Morris, to the newly-created position of senior producer/media strategist.
http://www.bangmodmusic.com
Hank Music in LA has signed labels Ninja Tune, New Line Records, Better Looking Records and The Control Group.
http://www.hankmusic.tv
Detroit's Universal Images has hired creative editor Adam E. Pillon.
http://www.universalimages.com

