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CANNES LIONS 2011 GRAND PRIX WINNERS TO MENTOR TOP IDEAS FROM GLOBAL CREATIVE COMMUNITY
London, 29 February 2012 - The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which brings together the global advertising and communications industry, is partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest philanthropic foundation, in an effort to generate communications ideas that could help change the world.
Grand Challenges Explorations: Aid is Working. Tell the World is a unique call for action that aims to inspire the world’s greatest brand communicators to come up with an idea that will help solve a global problem.
Any individual, team, agency or company can submit a communications idea simply expressed on just two-pages, based on the challenge issued through the foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations programme. The brief calls for new and innovative ways of telling the real story behind global aid.
“The global Cannes Lions community is made up of the world’s greatest communicators who are solving problems for clients all day every day,” says Philip Thomas, Cannes Lions CEO. “Imagine if our community could harness this creativity to solve a global problem with an outstanding idea expressed on just two pieces of A4 paper? Imagine if a great idea emerged, and if that idea was honed and improved by the best thinkers in the industry? And imagine if there was the money to actually make something happen, to create the idea.”
Up to ten participants will be awarded $100,000 for the development of their idea – and the chance to be mentored by the Grand Prix Winners from Cannes Lions 2011, who have come together to form the ‘Cannes Chimera‘, possibly the greatest collection of creative talent ever assembled. Successful projects will then have the chance to seek additional funding up to $1 million to bring their idea to fruition.
Tom Scott, Director, Global Brand & Innovation at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said, “Aid is effective, but the story of aid isn’t breaking through. Now more than ever it’s critical that we look at new and innovative ways to change the debate. We are excited to partner with Cannes Lions to help ensure that the world’s greatest creative minds can put their energy against a really important challenge.”
How to Take Part
Grand Challenges Explorations: Aid is Working. Tell the World is open to everyone. The idea has to be submitted on two sides of A4 paper between now and 15 May. In the summer, all the ideas will be judged anonymously, solely on their merit, stripping everything back to the purity and creativity of the idea itself. The jury will be made up of the Cannes Chimera, as well as members of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s review board and a small group of panel experts. Up to ten of the most brilliant ideas may be selected as finalists to each receive $100,000 to further develop the idea.
The Apple iPad – The Photographer’s Best Friend
6:30pm | Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Dubai Knowledge Village Auditorium
PANEL: Steve Simon, Drew Gurian and Toufic Araman
The iPad has many merits but particularly for photographers can be an invaluable tool for showing off work to potential clients, researching for assignments and more importantly as a tool during a photographers workflow to organise, preview and even edit images during and after a shoot.
Join Steve Simon, Drew Gurian and Toufic Araman during this 90minute session where they will discuss how they use the iPad in their photography work. They will talk about apps they use and Drew will also do a quick live demo of how he uses the iPad in a workflow process when shooting with Joe McNally.
The event is FREE to attend but you must Register and spaces are limited.
The inaugural edition of Design Days Dubai, the Middle East’s and South Asia’s first fair dedicated to collectible and limited edition design, will showcase exclusive high-end design pieces by 22 international and regional design galleries.
The galleries, drawn from around the world, will present for the first time in Dubai the creative strides and investment opportunities offered by the purchase of high-end design, through an unmatched collection ranging from prototype work to 20th Century classics, with the collectibles ranging from €500 (approximately $655) to €300,000 (approximately $393,000)
Each of the galleries, some of them participating outside their home-country for the first time, will present their collections at dedicated pavilions in intimate settings that highlight a new dimension to design aesthetics. Visitors can discover new universes that will captivate them with the possibilities that the modern world of design offers.
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Showcase – Studio GD – Russia
Studio GD appeared in Perm (Russia) in April 2008. GD emblem is a picture of a five years old friend — Artem, who just painted his senior colleagues. Now this logo represents four designers from Perm and St. Petersburg — Alexandra Bubnova, Igor Ryabov, Sergei Stryapunin and Nikita Semenov.
The studio makes pictures, three-dimensional objects and gets pleasure from it.
The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organization celebrating the best of graphic design, illustration and digital design in Europe. A joint effort by 15 communication design magazines from across the continent, the ED-Awards is a brilliant way to publicise your work on an international level.
On deciding to enter any design competition you should ask yourself two very important questions:
How certain can you be on the quality of the results?
The ED-Awards boast the most qualified jury around, composed of representatives from the leading European design magazines. They are specialised design editors and critics, whose daily work is precisely to recognise and promote the best of communication design internationally. Further more, an observer appointed by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations, the world body for professional communication design, is always present in order to ensure that all rules are followed to the letter.
What will you get out of it?
The ED-Awards receive the widest publicity in the design awards field. Agencies and designers who excel here, receive the best coverage available. The reason is simple: the ED-Awards are based on a network of design media, i.e. the means of communication themselves.
| How to enter
Deadline 29 February! Note that this year, all samples should be sent to: |
Published in Arab Ad December 2011, Vol. 21 No. 12. Page: 51.
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