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ADCD Annual Award Show Highlights
Fairly decent turn-out for the Art Directors Club of Denver annual show last night at the Brown Palace. Overall, the work was surprisingly interesting, giving us renewed hope for the future of the city. Many of the usual suspects took home awards, along with some dark horses, including Liquid Inc. (first image below) and Steve Bullock Design (second image below). Work from Factory, Cultivator, TDA and Sukle was noticeably missing from the mix. Damn interns must have missed the deadline for sending entries.
The biggest highlight for us was our newfound respect for Cactus (third image below) and Integer (fourth image below), both seen rolling wheelbarrows full of awards out the exit door. (We’ll hold off for now on a discussion of just how badly these shops need to take a look at redesigning their own clunky websites – and loop back around on that topic soon.)
Best of Show went to Cactus for their broadcast work for Own Your C, which flies miles above our heads, but is apparently working for the teen audience the Colorado State Tobacco Education & Prevention Partnership is targeting. Each judge also got to pick their favorite piece from the show – with honors going to Steve Bullock Design, Thomas Taber & Drazen, LeeReedy and Extra Strength.
Another realization we had after the show was that there are very few agencies doing good broadcast work in Denver – another category where Cactus squashed everyone else. Also, the illustration and photography categories were seriously thin. And one final note to ADCD – turn up the fuckin’ mic next year. We couldn’t hear the presenters.
– The Denver Egotist
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Enlighten us oh wise ones on the art of making websites. If you don’t like Flash then fine, but give examples of good portfolio sites. Please don’t include Wordpress blogs.
While I do agree that providing some examples would be helpful, I’m not going to disagree that the Web sites for both Cactus and Integer are weak. Especially considering that interactive is a specialty for both—they do great Web work for clients, so why no passion for their own sites? It’s a question that’s long baffled me.
Also, wanted to say that I was also at the ADCD Awards Show and was pleasantly surprised. Not with the work, however, I knew that local agencies were capable of that caliber work. What surprised me was the lack of vainglorious, self-back-clapping at a local awards show. I was expected to be surrounded by people who thought they were hot shit. People who wanted to get into pissing matches with other artists and agencies. Instead I entered a convivial atmosphere where people were rooting for one another and congratulating one another on great work. And that was something that was very heartening to see for this community, and I thought it beared mention.
Thanks for the Integer shout out. And hey, captain obvious, every one is aware that the Integer site is in desperate need of a re-design. Working on it over here, unfortunately in-house work always takes a back seat to client work, reading blogs and getting trashed at the ADCD Awards Show. Cheers.
Glad to hear a redesign of the Integer site is in process, Suz. Even happier to know you recognize the necessity for it. Saves us the time of having to shine a light on it publicly to light a fire under you. Great work at the ADCD show the other night, by the way. Seriously.
way to go norm, kelly, steve k., tom, ian, kent, jack, blakely, patrick, nicole, etc.
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