2007 MAC Michiana Addy Awards 2nd wrap up

Thanks to all that attended the 2007 MAC Michiana ADDY Awards!Now that the votes are cast and the winners are decided, it is time to show the pictures from the event! 

Here is the candid shots before the ceremony. Here is a link to the pictures of the cermony. Here are shots of the award winners.

Photos provided by Marty at ME Photographics. 

Here is one of the 2006-2007 MAC Michiana Board of Directors (one member absent).

  

ADDY Recap
To view the complete list of winners or view/download the ADDY presentation, visit: www.macmichiana.org.

Winners: Please email Chris Sallak (csallak@yahoo.com) by Friday, March 16 if you would like to order additional copies of your 2007 ADDY award. They are $80 each.
 
All gold winners have been automatically forward to the District 6 competition. If you haven’t done so already, please contact Chris Sallak if you would like to also forward your silver winner to the next level. 

2007 MAC Michiana ADDY Award Media Release: Follow Up

Here is a simple list and press release for the winners of the 2007 MAC Michiana ADDY Awards. This was sent to the South Bend Tribune, Elkhart Truth and Michiana Shopper.

Media Release 

For Release January 16, 8 p.m.

Contact:  Christopher A. Sallak Vice President of ADDYs

574-284-4625    csallak@yahoo.com        www.macmichiana.org 

Ad Club Presents 2007 ADDY Awards  SOUTH BEND, Ind. –  The Marketing and Advertising Club of Michiana (MAC Michiana) presented its 2007 ADDY Awards for advertising creative excellence Friday night at theMarie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, with more than 160 members of the local advertising and marketing community in attendance.Conducted annually by the American Advertising Federation, the ADDY Awards represent the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition for creative excellence.

Best of Show for print advertising went to Todd Allen Design, for its Renegade product brochure. Martin’s Super Markets won the Best of Show for electronic advertising for the Want It Fast/Want It All/Meat To Eat television advertising campaign.In the student category, Ellen Needham Imbur of Ivy Tech Community College South Bend received the Best of Show Student Print award.

Todd Allen Design received the most awards — a total of eight trophies. This includes two Gold ADDYs for client Dansr and one for Kibbi LLC, and Silver ADDYs for clients Big C Lumber, Crown Audio, Inc., Explore Media, and two for Goshen Health System.

Richard Harrison Bailey/The Agency received four awards, including Gold ADDYs for Warner Pacific College and Nick Bailey and Lauren Swihart, plus Silver ADDYs for clients University of Illinois and Warner Pacific College.Whirlpool received three awards, including two Gold ADDYS for Whirlpool and Gladiator product brochures. The agency was also awarded a Silver ADDY for its Maytag Epic Tradeshow brochure.

Fish Marketing Inc. won two ADDYS, a Gold and a Silver ADDY, both for their work on for work on behalf of Hacienda Mexican restaurants.Pathfinders won two Silver ADDYs, for their clients Supreme Corporation and Global Access Point.

Burkhart Advertising also won a Gold and a Silver ADDY, for their self promotional work and work with Value Center Big & Tall Outlet, respectively.Other winners were Grass Roots Media, Fish Marketing, TaigMarks, Inc., and Phisz Designs, Inc., each winning one award each.

Student ADDYS were awarded to Ivy Tech South Bend students Raymond Johnson, Scott Boehner, Axel Hernandez and Ellen Needham Imbur.

Judges for the ADDY contest were Bill McDonald, creative director, One Alliance Communications, Lexington, Ky.; Toni Bloom, visual communication assistant professor, Gateway Community and Technical College, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Clark Most, freelance art director, Midland, Mich.

A local affiliate of the American Advertising Federation, MAC Michiana promotes and protects the well-being and advertising through a number of programs including the ADDY contest and monthly luncheons featuring leaders of the advertising and marketing industry. 

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2007 MAC Michiana ADDY Awards review

Friday night’s ADDY Award for the 2007 Michiana area were a smashing success! Thank you to all who attended, your contribution to our local advertising community is invaluable. It was a great turnout, about 160 advertisers and marketers in our local Michiana area.

The food was good and there were few complaints. Everyone seemed to like the cash bar and the wide open spaces that the DeBartolo Hall afforded everyone to spread out and enjoy the main attraction: the work on display!

In the meantime, video presentation for both Silver and Gold Award winners is available here.

A more comprehensive list of winning advertising team members is available here, and pictures will be available from the gala event soon!

2007 Michiana ADDY Awards! (rewrite)

MAC Michiana is the premier organization in Michiana for all marketing, advertising and media professionals as well as for college students pursuing studies in the field. And we serve the area’s marketing and advertising community through joint career-enhancing luncheons, networking opportunities, communications and other joint ventures. If you are part of the marketing and advertising community of Michiana, you belong in MAC Michiana. MAC Michiana provides monetary support to area college students pursuing studies in the marketing and communications fields. This support takes several forms:

• $1,000 grant to help any National Student Advertising Competition team attend the district competition.
• $500 for the best student entry from each Michiana-area college in the annual ADDY Advertising Competition.
• Students can pay $5 instead of the $20 member rate or $30 non-member rate to attend MAC Michiana luncheons.

The money for scholarships is raised at the MAC Michiana Auction each November.Become a member today!

 Attend the 2007 ADDY Advertising Awards!

This year’s ADDY awards will be held on Friday, February 16, 2007 at The Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts.

University of Notre Dame.

5:30 p.m.- Hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and viewing entries

7:00 p.m.- Awards Presentation. Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 7, 2007.
To RSVP: Click here, or call 574.233.3066 or 574.323.7190 (cell)

Judging:January 19-20, 2007 – O’Laughlin Auditorium, Saint Mary’s College

ADDY Show:February 16, 2007 —DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, University of Notre Dame
5:30 – Gallery opens
7:00 – Awards Show

If you have questions, please contact Chris Sallak, V.P. of ADDYs, at csallak@yahoo.com.

Judges:

Bill McDonald, Creative Director/One Alliance Communications, Lexington, Kentucky

Bill began his career in Canada, working as a writer/director for radio stations CJOB in Winnipeg and CHUM in Toronto, then as a writer for J. Walter Thompson Advertising in Toronto, then a freelance writer/director. His work included Ford of Canada and the first Just Say No anti-drug campaign. While in Canada he collected more than 200 national and international awards for broadcast creativity including Billboard awards for internationally syndicated radio documentaries including The Evolution of Rock, The Story of The Beatles and The Elvis Presley Story. Next, Los Angeles, where Bill partnered with broadcast legend Chuck Blore to write, direct and produce award winning creative for almost every national advertiser and every major advertising agency in the country plus several in England and Australia.

Among his notable campaigns are Reach Out and Touch Someone for AT&T (radio), The NFL ON FOX (television), Call BAC for British Airways Cargo (radio) and California Camero (radio).  During his 15 years in Los Angeles he collected over 300 more national and international awards for broadcast creativity, including two Emmys.  While in Los Angeles, he co-taught classes in Broadcast Communications at UCLA and Cal State Northridge.  He is a published author and an in-demand industry awards competition judge whose credits include the CLIOs, the Ollies, the New York Festival Awards, London International Awards and ADDY competitions throughout the country.

Clark Most, Art Director and part-time professor, Midland, Michigan.

Clark Most has been the principal of Redpoint Design Direction in Midland for twenty years and is an Associate Professor of Art at Central Michigan University where he teaches graphic design.
Clark has serviced companies both large and small including Dow Chemical, Hobi Outback, the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament and others. He has received national awards for his photography and design work and has had his work published in a number of design annuals. This last year he was the recipient of a district Gold Addy award and his design work is being used by Finch Paper company to promote their paper products. 

Toni Bloom, GCTC Visual Communication Assistant Professor and Student AAF Chapter Advisor, Cincinnati With 22 years of experience in advertising in the Cincinnati area, Toni Bloom brings the real world into her Northern Kentucky classroom at Gateway Community and Technical College every day. She also introduces her students to the business environment by forging partnerships that have netted real-world assignments for her graphic design students. A dual focus on design fundamentals and client service helps create a culture of creativity that benefits Gateway students and business professionals who help keep the program current. Bloom began her advertising career as a stat camera operator working her way through the ranks to Associate Creative Director at Rick Warner and Associates. For the past 11 years Bloom has held what she terms her “most challenging and rewarding position” as a Visual Communication Art instructor at Gateway. “It’s especially rewarding to see former students successful, employed and winning lots of Addys,” says Bloom.

Bloom has been a member of the Advertising Club of Cincinnati for 5 years, a member of its Board of Directors for 4 years, Chair of the Social committee, has served on the Scholastic Relations committee, and recruits several new members. Bloom’s most recent accomplishment is forming and advising the Advertising and Design Student Group. The group sponsors several judged student exhibits, and they are a student AAF chapter. Under her tutelage, a Gateway student received a prestigious national Silver Addy from the American Advertising Federation, a first for Gateway and the Cincinnati Ad Club.

 

In addition, Bloom has garnered high-profile real-world assignments for her corporate identity class, including designing the new logo for Kenton County Schools, designing a logo for Western Kentucky Audubon Region and designing a commemorative poster for the Lane’s End Stakes at Turfway Park race track.Bloom is a native of Cincinnati and continues to freelance as much as time allows. She is a member of the Union Township Kiwanis and the mother of three children. Her kids, four horses and three dogs keep her very active.