Award School kickoff

The prestigious and world-famous Award School
started on Wednesday night at The Intercontinental in Wellington.

For its 26yrs history of hosting the idea-based course in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore & Thailand,
this is the first time ever it’s being host in NZ.

To be considered as great a course as the Miami Adschool,
I felt proud, nervous, and excited to be part of it.

Knowing that all of Australasia will be looking at the result of this class,
first lecturer (and course leader) Paul Nagy said he’d make sure to be super-tough on our work
and pushing us to be the best we could so that we won’t be the bad exception to NZ’s great creative reputation.
What a nice challenge to be given on our first day!

(Dan Moth, Paul Nagy, Duster & Anton Hart)

We had 3 speakers on our first lecture. After Paul, we had Clemenger’s writer Dan Moth who’s an ex-Award grad.
Both Dan and Paul gave us great advices on how to do well in the course,
while our final speaker, Duster the ECD of Clems,
was funny as hell when he inspired us with his own wits and references from Paul Arden.

The roughly-1-and-a-half-hour lecture flew past and I was so psyched up that I felt I wanted more!
You know, it’s just such rare chance you’d get to listen to three brilliant creatives on one single night!

After the lecture was the opening night’s welcome drinks at the Motel Bar.
It was a nice and cozy bar to chat with my fellow classmates
and it was very interesting to know that everyone is from different background.

(My classmate Antonia & me)

There are three actresses, two interactive geeks I had so much fun chatting with (consider I’m a bit of a geek as well), some are from marketing / media background plus some are currently doing a placement with Clems.

(tutor Duncan Munro, my classmates Nicola & Tom, tutor Claire Stapleton of Y&R)

Haven’t had a chance to chat with all,
but I was glad that I also get to meet my tutors from Y&R – Anton Hart & Duncan Munro.
Before the night ended I chatted up Dan & Duster,
and enjoyed their openness and down-to-earth attitude.

So this is the beginning of something that’s gonna be very interesting and without a doubt, competitive.
Most went home reasonable early and eagerly await the tutorials on the next day when we’ll be given our first brief.