Held at the Ignite bar (Komodo's) in Auckland on the 7th August, this was a really exciting event for young creatives. Ignite has just recently been set up to help us talented advertising babies get a foot in the door of the advertising world, creating opportunities to network, meet some of the top creatives in NZ and even giving us the opportunity to work on real briefs.
Amazing people from left to right:Katie, Paul, Sonya, Jody, Ben & Vaughn.
The launch of this new initiative was awesome. Michael and I got to meet a whole lot of people including Ben Lightfoot (Managing Partner - Blackwood Communications Group), Jody King (General Manager - BCG), Katie Ray (Account Manager - BCG), Sonya Crosby (National Marketing Manager - NZ Post), Vaughn Davis (CD - Y&R), and we had a friendly chat to Paul Catmur who was also the guest speaker. His little presentation was really interesting with lots of laughs and some little pearls of wisdom and advice. We also got to chat with David Bell (Course Leader - Axis Adschool) and met some students from this years class. Overall we met some amazingly nice people who all took the time to chat with us and were genuinely interested in what we were up to. Thanks guys!
2 comments:
Nice blog guys – cool to see an advertising-related blog that isn't all about slagging people off!
Good to meet you again the other night. Do I really look like that? Must shave more often.
Good luck!
Vaughn
Thanks Vaughn! Yeah, we definitely agree with you - advertising blogs are often full of people bad-mouthing each other but everyone we met at the Ignite Launch were so nice - Paul Catmur even offered to buy Anna an orange juice!
Regarding the stubble, it's just the sign of a hard working creative. So keep it growing! And no worries, next time I will use a finer marker :)
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