AICP Pulls Out the Stops for its 20th Year
It was a great show and an even better party this year at MoMA. Just ask David Droga, who chaired the Next Awards jury.
AICP Pulls Out the Stops at MoMA to Celebrate its 20th Year
The production industry's signature competition salutes creative
and executional excellence with a great show and one of the
largest gatherings in years.
By Anthony Vagnoni
The AICP's Art & Technique of the American Commercial turned 20 this week in New York, and it's hardly showing its age. In a collection of work that included everything from traditional TV commercials to experiential design (for a full rundown of 2011 AICP winners check out our news story here), the competition continued to demonstrate an ability to evolve with the industry it honors and respond to changes in media, technology and creative tastes.
That said, there were plenty of familiar names at the top of the honoree list - Wieden + Kennedy, BBDO, Deutsch, TBWA\Chiat\Day and Y&R on the agency side, for example, and MJZ, Park Pictures, Anonymous Content, Biscuit, Smuggler, Psyop and Hungry Man on the production company side. In a day that was preceded by production company parties the night before (Chelsea and The Mill both held gatherings) to the Next Awards presentation in the morning to the gala screening and reception that evening, this first week in June has truly come to represent the production industry's time to shine. SourceEcreative was on hand, too. Here's a sampling of who we saw:
David Droga of Droga5, who chaired the judging panel for the Next Awards.
Jenny Cranfield of Beast, Nick Mordecai of Digitas and the exceptionally
dapper Sean McGrath of Cutting Room.
From left, Chris Landi of Merkley, Bob Nelson of Quiet Man, Andy Hirsch
of Merkley and David Perry of Saatchi & Saatchi.
Brian Carmody of Smuggler, this year's AICP Show Chairman,
and his fiancée, Christine Jackson.
From left, Ray Foote of Big Foote Music, Justin Booth-Clibborn of Psyop, Saffron Case
of A Very Small Office and Tim Case of Supply & Demand Integrated.
From left, Roe Bressan of BlueRock, Meegan Hanrahan of Gardner Nelson, Amy Zale
of Spontaneous and Krista Boling and Jeanne Cordova of Universal Studios.
Enquiring minds want to know what Mary Knox of Red Car and Bill Reilly of
Curious Pictures are chatting about.
If the partners of Copilot, Jason Menkes (left) and Ravi Krishnaswami, are
at the party, then who's in the cockpit?
Jakob Trollback of Trollback + Co., Bill Oberlander of JWT and Jerry Solomon of Epoch.
Stephen Dickstein, left, and Phillip Detchmendy, who
just announced the opening of Alive & Well.
Michelle Curran of Amber, Charles Day of The Lookinglass
and David Rolfe of Crispin, Porter + Bogusky.
From left, Anita Olan of Imaginary Forces, Richard Stern of Marks Paneth & Shron,
Chip Houghton of Imaginary Forces and Alyson Griffith of Gossip.
Oritte Bendory of GARTNER (left) with Tai Torres-Wirth of Reprizent.
Jeff Bowman and Roxanne Artesona of Roxanne & Co.
Jon Kamen of Radicalmedia and Colleen D'Amico of SourceEcreative.
Published 8 June, 2011
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