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Win ad awards, attend weird gay sex parties

Creativity

What the hell is going on in this video? It's called "The Importance of Awards in Advertising," and according to the e-mail we got, it was written and directed by [...]


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Your creative work makes Gerry Graf vomit

Creativity

The Andy Awards has set up a call-for-entries Web site called the Instacritique. You’re invited to upload your work and get various reactions from five well-known creative directors, as well [...]

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Elderly creatives jazzed about ‘Ego Bingo’

Creativity

Here’s an ad (click to enlarge) from Leo Burnett promoting The Advertising Club’s 2007 International Andy Awards. The whole campaign has a lottery theme, the idea being that the Andys [...]

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Andy judges and the photos they love

Creativity

Bob Scarpelli of DDB is transfixed by this photo of a young man mourning the death of John Lennon. “Twenty-five years after his death, it is easy to say that [...]

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Not quite the last judgment, but close

Creativity

Artist Fred Stonehouse channels Hieronymus Bosch in his (and Leo Burnett’s) cool call-for-entries poster for the 2006 International Andy Awards. (Click on the image to see a big version.) Judges [...]