Last Thursday, 8th September, Lancaster London hosted the award ceremony for the pitch Awards: The Blades 2011. The winners were revealed in 4 categories: Advertising, Design, Digital and Media.
Category Archive: Agency News
Schawk, Inc., a leading provider of brand development and deployment services enabling companies of all sizes to connect their brands with consumers, announced the appointment of Lor Gold to global chief creative officer at Schawk. This position will be responsible for stewarding and developing a creative vision across Schawk in support of the expression of brands across consumer touchpoints at home, on the go, at the store and on the shelf.
Jenn David Connolly, owner and founder of Jenn David Design has joined the board of the San Diego chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design. As of July 2011, Connolly will serve as the Communications Director, overseeing and directing the chapter’s communications in both web and print capacities.
Strategic design and packaging agency Anthem Worldwide, part of Schawk, Inc., is today announcing the appointment of Jo Boyd as its new Managing Director and Wayne Nguyen as Client Services Director. Both new recruits will play a vital role in implementing a new positioning for Anthem as a brand agency that develops Kinetic brands – brands of irresistible choice that are media agnostic and not beholden to a single media perspective.
Strategic design agency, BrandOpus, has expanded its management team with the appointment of Ken Hommel and Leo Hadden as associated partners. Ken joined BrandOpus as finance director in 2008, and brings 31 years’ design and advertising agency experience to the management team, having previously worked with London agencies Lewis Moberly, Amacom and Conran Design Group.
Nearly 40% of entrepreneurs are developing ‘knowledge-as-a-service’ businesses
Entrepreneurs are rapidly adopting sourcing as a method to jump-start their projects, according to a recent study by blur Group, the world’s largest Creative Services Exchange. blur Group surveyed 1,546 members of Innovatrs, an Innovation Exchange™ where corporations worldwide can discover, partner with or invest in innovative startups and entrepreneurs. The findings show that nearly 40% of entrepreneurs are developing ‘knowledge-as-service’ business models.