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Lion Of St. Mark (award)
The Lion of St. Mark is an award given each year at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for a lifetime of services to creativity in communications. It was instituted in 2011. The trophy is modelled on the lion statue in St Mark's Square, Venice, where the first Cannes Lions festival was held in 1954. Winners * 2011, Sir John Hegarty * 2012, Dan Wieden * 2013, Lee Clow * 2014, Joe Pytka * 2015, Bob Greenberg * 2016, Marcello Serpa * 2017, David Droga * 2018, Piyush Pandey and Prasoon Pandey * 2019, Rich Silverstein & Jeff Goodby * 2020, Mary Wells Lawrence Mary Wells Lawrence (born Mary Georgene Berg on May 25, 1928) is an American retired advertising executive. She was the founding president of Wells, Rich, Greene, an advertising agency known for its creative work. Lawrence was the first female ... References {{Reflist Advertising awards Awards established in 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannes Lions
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (formerly the International Advertising Festival) is a global event for those working in creative communications, advertising, and related fields. It is considered the largest gathering of the advertising and creative communications industry. The five-day festival, incorporating the awarding of the Lions awards, is held yearly at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, France. During the last week of June, around 15,000 registered delegates from 90 countries visit the Festival to celebrate the best of creativity in brand communication, discuss industry issues, and network with one another. The week's activities include multiple award ceremonies as well as an opening and closing gala. History Inspired by the Cannes Film Festival, staged in Cannes since the late 1940s, a group of cinema screen advertising contractors belonging to the Screen Advertising World Association (Sawa) felt the makers of advertising films sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lion Of St
The lion (''Panthera leo'') is a large cat of the genus '' Panthera'' native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; short, rounded head; round ears; and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions are larger than females and have a prominent mane. It is a social species, forming groups called ''prides''. A lion's pride consists of a few adult males, related females, and cubs. Groups of female lions usually hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The lion is an apex and keystone predator; although some lions scavenge when opportunities occur and have been known to hunt humans, lions typically don't actively seek out and prey on humans. The lion inhabits grasslands, savannas and shrublands. It is usually more diurnal than other wild cats, but when persecuted, it adapts to being active at night and at twilight. During the Neolithic period, the lion ranged throughout Africa and Eurasia from Southeast Europe to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piazza San Marco
Piazza San Marco (; vec, Piasa San Marco), often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as ''la Piazza'' ("the Square"). All other urban spaces in the city (except the Piazzetta and the Piazzale Roma) are called ''campi'' ("fields"). The Piazzetta ("little Piazza/Square") is an extension of the Piazza towards San Marco basin in its southeast corner (see plan). The two spaces together form the social, religious and political centre of Venice and are commonly considered together. This article relates to both of them. A remark usually attributed (though without proof) to Napoleon calls the Piazza San Marco "the drawing room of Europe". Description The square is dominated at its eastern end by St Mark's Basilica. It is described here by a perambulation starting from the west front of the church (facing the length of the piazza) and proceeding to the right. The church is described in the article ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hegarty (advertising Executive)
Sir John Hegarty (born 1944) is an advertising executive and a founder of the agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Career He joined Cramer Saatchi in 1967, and was a founding shareholder when it became Saatchi & Saatchi. In 1973. he co-founded TBWA, and then in 1982 started Bartle Bogle Hegarty. He has published two books: ''Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence Into Magic'' and ''Hegarty on Creativity''. Honours He was a President of D&AD in 1989 and in 1994 was given the President's Award. He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 23 June 1991. He was knighted for his services to the advertising and creative industries in 2007. Hegarty is a Trustee Emeriti of The Design Museum The Design Museum in Kensington, London exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all funds generat .... B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Wieden
Dan Gordon Wieden (; March 6, 1945 – September 30, 2022) was an American advertising executive who co-founded ad firm Wieden+Kennedy. A native of Oregon, he coined the Nike tagline "Just Do It." Early life Wieden was born in Portland, Oregon, on March 6, 1945, to Duke Wieden who was in advertising, and his wife Violet. Wieden attended Ulysses S. Grant High School in northeast Portland, where he was on the swim team. In 1966, he married Bonnie Scott (d. 2008), and they had four children. After graduation from Grant, he enrolled at the University of Oregon in Eugene, graduating from its School of Journalism and Communication in 1967. Career After college Wieden worked at Georgia-Pacific, then headquartered in Portland. After time as a freelance writer, he was hired at McCann-Erickson, an ad agency where he first met David Kennedy, with that agency handling the Georgia-Pacific account from its Portland office. In 1981, Georgia-Pacific moved to Atlanta, and McCann-Erickson cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Clow
Lee Clow (born 1943) is the chairman and global director of TBWA\Worldwide, and had been its chief creative officer. ''Advertising Age'' referred to him as "advertising's art director guru". Early life Lee Clow was born in Los Angeles, California, US. He studied at Santa Monica City College and California State University, Long Beach. Career Clow is best known for co-creating – along with Steve Hayden – Apple Computer's ''1984'' commercial, which launched the Apple Macintosh and the "Think Different" slogan. The 60-second TV spot was made for a budget of $900,000 and is considered a masterpiece in advertising. He is also known for his work on the PlayStation, Energizer Bunny, Taco Bell chihuahua, and California Cooler campaigns. Clow has helmed campaigns for Nissan and Pedigree Petfoods. He is a member of numerous advertising and creative halls of fame. Personal life He was a personal friend of Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Pytka
Joe Pytka (born November 4, 1938) is an American film, television, commercial and music video director born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He holds the record for the most nominations for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Commercials. Early life Pytka studied fine arts at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon), and chemical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He began his film career at WRS Motion Pictures while still in college. He moved to New York as a post-production supervisor at MGM Telestudios but returned to Pittsburgh to make documentaries at WQED, a flagship production center of the then National Educational Television Network, now PBS. His work there for NET Playhouse garnered many awards and the film ''A View of the Sky'' was the official United States Government film at the Expo '67 World's Fair in Montreal. He left to form his own production company with Rift Fournier and produced and directed many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Greenberg
Bob Greenberg (May 8, 1934September 11, 2009) was an American record executive. During his 50-year career as a record executive Greenberg worked with several companies including Warner Brothers, Atlantic Records, MGM/United Artists Records, and Mirage Records. Greenberg was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His first job in the music business was as a promoter for Eastern Allied Associated Record Distributors. From there he moved to Warner Brothers, eventually relocating to Los Angeles. His brother, Jerry Greenberg, recruited him to work at Atlantic, and the two co-founded Mirage. He worked with several successful artists including The Rolling Stones, AC/DC and Whitesnake. Later in his career he became the president of ''Hitmakers'' magazine. Greenberg died on September 11, 2009 in West Hills, Los Angeles after suffering from a stroke A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcello Serpa
Marcello Serpa is a Brazilian advertising executive. He was creative director and co-chairman of AlmapBBDO until 2015. Career Serpa studied visual and graphic arts in Germany, where he subsequently worked for different ad agencies. In 1987 he returned to his native Brazil, where in 1993 he took the lead of AlmapBBDO together with strategic planner José Luiz Madeira. After two decades at the helm of the agency, the pair left Almap in 2015. Awards Serpa is Brazil’s most honoured art director, with 45 Clio Awards, and 149 Cannes Festival Lions, including Latin America’s first Grand Prix. In 1993, he won Latin America’s first Grand Prix award in Cannes, in print and outdoor, for a campaign he created for Guaraná Antarctica soft drink while at DM9 DDB, a São Paulo agency. Serpa is also a winner of the 2008 Clio Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Lion of St. Mark The Lion of Saint Mark, representing Mark the Evangelist, pictured in the form of a winged lion, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Droga
David Droga (born 1968) is an Australian advertising executive and the founder and chairman of Droga5, an advertising agency headquartered in New York City with offices in London and Tokyo. Droga5 was acquired by Accenture in 2019 and David was named CEO of Accenture Interactive in August, 2021. Early life and education Droga grew up in Perisher Valley, Australia, the fifth of six children. His mother is of Danish descent, while his father was a Jewish businessman. and a attended primary school at the Tudor House Preparatory School from 1978 to 1980 and spent his high school years at The King's School. He graduated with top honors from the Australian Writers and Art Directors School. Career At the age of 22, Droga became a Partner and Executive Creative Director of OMON Sydney. In 1996, he moved to Singapore to become Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore and Regional Creative Director of Saatchi Asia. In 1998, ''Media Marketing'' named Saatchi Asia Regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piyush Pandey
Piyush Pandey is an advertising professional and the Chief Creative Officer Worldwide (2019) and Executive Chairman India of Ogilvy (agency). He is the recipient of the Padma Shri award (2016). Pandey is also credited with shaping a distinct indigenous influence on Indian advertising that was earlier under the influence of western advertising and ideas. Early life and education Pandey was born in Jaipur in 1955 in a family of eight siblings, seven sisters and his brother noted director Prasoon Pandey. His father worked for the Rajasthan state cooperative bank. He played the Ranji Trophy for the state of Rajasthan. He worked as a tea taster. Pandey studied at St. Xavier's School, Jaipur and has an Master of Arts, MA from St Stephen's College, Delhi. He is a Post Graduate in History from the University of Delhi. He is the brother of singer Ila Arun and Prasoon Pandey. He is married to Nita Pandey. Career Pandey joined ad industry as a client servicing executive at Ogilvy in 1982 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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