2008scandinavia shortlisted in the Clio Awards

As we have said before, creative awards are important to us. Competition is good for everybody, not at least for our clients. We love to compete, that´s why we are proud over the fact that our ad “SHARK” for Teknograd Mac Support is on the coveted Shortlist in the Clio Awards, one of the biggest and most important international awards shows. We know, we know, it´s only one ad, but we have only existed since January 2008 and we are only three people, and haven´t produced a whole bunch of campaigns yet, so we allow ourselves to be happy and proud. The only other norwegian Clio shortlist is the already multi-awarded, brilliant Hydro-commercial, by DDB Oslo, produced by Motion Blur, who we share office with. So you can say that both norwegian shortlists are located at the same address. The Bronze, Silver, Gold and Grand Clio´s are to be announced in mid May, so we cross our fingers for even more.

2008scandinavia picks up two awards at the Golden Pencil

Last friday, norwegian Creative Forum arranged The Golden Pencil 2007 – Gullblyanten 2007, Norway´s biggest and most important domestic creative award show. A bit like The One Show or the D&AD in the US and the UK. As usual the agencies Kitchen, McCann, DDB and Try won the most awards, and as usual, a lot of the results in the different categories are totally impossible to understand for everyone else than the jury. Especially the Art Direction-category was a great mystery, handing the gold award to two Djuice-commercials, using a deliberately “bad-taste 70´s” style, not unlike what 2008scandinavia´s good friends in Traktor is known for every now and then, and do 100 times better. The commercial are quite funny, and more than decent, but to award them gold is outragous. Especially when you bare in mind all the brilliant art direction work that never even picked up a diploma (shortlist). But that´s the same story every year, and what are you going to about it? Put robots in the jury? All the discussions is half the fun.2008scandinavia picked up 2 diplomas. One for our digital work for Norli´s Antique Books , and one for our poster campaign for Teknograd. We found it very strange that the doublespread magazine ad “Shark” for Teknograd did not receive an award. But again. That´s life when it comes to award shows. We´re happy about our two diplomas, given the fact that we only had excisted four weeks before entry deadline.We´re also happy about our friends in the rather small agency SMFB, who picked up three silvers and eight diplomas. We love to compete, we love to win awards. Next up are Clio, The One Show and Cannes Lions. Hopefully, 2008scandinavia will score even better here than home in Oslo. In the picture: Left: Erik Heisholt of 2008scandinavia. Right: Not Erik´s kid brother, not Bjørn Borg, not even Bjørg Borgen, but the very talented young art director, Hans Martin Rønneseth of SMFB.

2008scandinavia picks up first creative award

2008scandinavia picks up its first creative award. The “Outdoor Price” for January. Client: Lego. Work: “Under construction”. A billboard built entirely out of small Lego-bricks, to celebrate the Lego-brick´s 50th anniversary. Each monthly winner competes for the big price at next years “Golden Pencil”-awards – “Outdoor idea of the year”.