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Judy John, global chief creative officer of Edelman, has been chosen as Adfest 2020 grand jury president. John is known as the driving force behind the Always #LikeAGirl campaign and joined Edelman in April 2019 …
By Emir Shafri, Malaysian executive creative director and eCommerce Lotus & Media Lotus Jury Member, AdFest. What is it that holds us back from creating great work? Is it risk-averse clients? Management that’s more interested in …
FAB 雰囲気 (FUINKI) A coup for Japan. All of AdFest 2019’s Fabulous Five are Japanese. A coup for AOI Pro. Three come from there. To be fair to Australia, its Fabulous Five winner, Josh Patrick from …
Craig Brooks thinks differently. The executive creative director at R/GA Sydney began his career as a developer. While ad agency people were trying to come to grips with the mysteries of digital, the digital pro …
A true all-round creative gem and deputy executive creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney, Rebecca Carrasco is judging Audio Lotus and Film Lotus at AdFest this year. She is also a pioneer, a part-time …
Josh Patrick Dawson from FINCH in Melbourne is one of the five emerging directors selected for AdFest’s Fabulous Five this year. The other four directors all come from Japan, a testament to the quality of …
AdFest is almost ready for its festival, from March 22 to 24 in Pattaya. It has just released the animated short brand film that will underscore its theme, Transform. The film was created by MPC …
Ted Royer is a comic book nerd. That’s not a random piece of information. Royer used his encyclopaedic knowledge of comic history, creativity and business to illustrate his Adfest talk, The Party You Can't Go …
Corey Esse has just spent the last two hours presenting Adfest’s Fabulous Four (top young directors) to a full audience. The managing director and executive producer of Finch in Australia and New Zealand has also …
Impact BBDO has been doing kick ass work. Work that grabs you first and sells you second. Work that’s utterly surprising. Work that works in 2017. Fadi Yaish, regional executive creative director of Impact BBDO Dubai, …
Fadi Yaish, regional executive creative of Impact BBDO Dubai, is the jury president for Outdoor and Press at Adfest. He has no quibbles with Outdoor. In fact, he is delighted with what he saw. But …
The group creative director of M&C Saatchi believes that creatives simply have to be interested in everything, or they can't be great. The more input they get, the better their output. Being easily interested is …