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Six Gold Lions and 12 One Show Pencil awards have not erased a slight that Eric Silver still thinks about: He was runner-up in the annual class clown voting at his Connecticut high school 15 years ago.
“[It’s a] competition in which your peers are really voting for the ‘class asshole,’ ” admits the 33-year-old svp/creative director at Cliff Freeman and Partners, New York. “The guy that will do anything for a laugh.”
Silver’s specialty was “the claw.”
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