The 49th Annual Clio Awards are right around the corner. The show’s press man said the Clio’s are looking to drive new blood and some much-needed fresh perspective into the award show system. The roster of jury chairs is somehow both the same, and yet, different. Nice to see Garth and Dante on the list. Creative leaders sitting in 2008 Clio Awards executive jury chairs:
Content & Contact – Johnny Vulkan, partner, Anomaly, New York. JV sat on the 2007 Clio Awards Content & Contact jury.
TV/Cinema/Digital – Tony Granger, chief creative officer, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York
Print, Poster, Innovative, Integrated – Jeremy Craigen, ECD, DDB, UK
Interactive – Matias Palm-Jensen, creative president, Farfar, Stockholm, Sweden
Technique – Dante Ariola of MJZ
Design – Garth Walker, founder/CD, Orange Juice Design, Durban, South Africa
Garth also has a side-project via a magazine called i-jusi.
Radio – Bob Winter, vp/CD, Leo Burnett, Chicago, IL, USA
Hmmm… where my ladies at? Sigh. Oh, that’s right – the dynamite Colleen DeCourcy is busy doing Cannes this year. Hey fellas? There are other women out there doing great work. How about Jennifer Golub, Director of Broadcast Content Production, at Cutwater? Snap. What about some colored folks, too? Lordy, Lord… Whatevs.
Y’Know what? We’re opening the floor to the readers. Name your favorite ad lady who should be sitting in one of these jury chairs. Better yet, name anything that you think the Clio’s can do to make you give a shit like it’s the Oscar’s. We’ll send the whole suggestion list over to the Clio’s – U. P. S.
If they’re actually looking to mess with the award show system, then they should be welcoming of whatever suggestions, you dear readers, want to give them. Go for it.