Garth Walker to chair Clio Design jury

Matias Palm-Jensen, creative president of Farfar in Stockholm, Sweden, will chair the Interactive jury and Bob Winter, VP/creative director of Leo Burnett, Chicago, IL, US, will chair Radio. In December 2007, Clio announced the first wave of executive jury chairmen to oversee the three other awards categories: Content & Contact – Johnny Vulkan, partner, Anomaly, New York, US; Television/Cinema/Digital – Tony Granger, chief creative officer, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, US; and Print/Poster/Innovative/Integrated – Jeremy Craigen, executive creative director, DDB, UK. The Technique jury chair will be announced shortly.

“Each of these individuals has a well-known track record of success in their respective fields,” said Tony Gulisano, managing director, Clio Awards, one of the world's most recognised global awards competition honouring creative excellence in advertising and design.

“But equally important, they are also the people who continue to lead the industry forward with fresh new creative thinking and work. That's why they qualify to be a Clio jury chair.”

Recipient of more than 100 design awards

Walker founded Orange Juice Design in Durban in 1995. The agency, at which Walker serves as creative director, creates corporate identities, literature and packaging for many of South Africa's best known corporate and consumer brands. However, it is his interest in developing and encouraging a design language rooted in the African experience for which he is best known: since 1995, Orange Juice Design has published i-jusi (www.ijusi.co.za), allegedly Africa's only experimental graphics magazine. Recipient of more than 100 design awards, Walker has had his work published in over 80 magazines and books, and exhibited in 14 countries.

Palm-Jensen has a history as a pioneer in the digital world. After creating one of the first web portals in 1994, he started digital ad agency Spliff Industries two years later, before founding Farfar in 2000. The agency's award-winning programmes include work for Nokia, Absolut, Heineken, Diesel, Red Bull, Adidas and others. Farfar, which opened a New York office last year, was named the world's number one digital agency for 2007 according to the Gunn Report.

Winter is responsible for some of the industry's most successful and recognised advertising in recent years. These include award-wining campaigns for Altoids from Leo Burnett, Chicago. Previously, he spent three years at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, working on notable accounts such as Budweiser, Netflix, Ace Hardware and Specialized bikes. Winter began his career with a nine-year stint at DDB Chicago, where he was responsible for creating one of the most awarded campaigns in history: “Real Men of Genius” on behalf of Budweiser.

Online entry system

In other Clio Awards news, the online entry system for the 2008 awards programme, currently open at www.clioawards.com, has been extended. Deadlines for entry submissions are as follows:

• 8 February 2008 – all entries first appearing between 1 January 2007 – 31December 2007 must reach Clio offices in New York no later than 8 February.
  
• 29 February 2008 – for entries originally appearing in the first quarter of 2008, the deadline is 29 February

Awards will be announced and presented at the Clio Festival, 14 – 17 Mayin Miami's South Beach, Florida.

• For nearly five decades, the Clio Awards has been committed to the mission of celebrating and rewarding creative excellence in advertising and design, honouring one of the most influential forms of communication and its impact on modern culture. The Clio Awards, part of Nielsen Business Media, receives more than 19 000 entries from over 60 countries in a broad range of mediums including Interactive, Television/Cinema/Digital, Content & Contact, Print, Poster, Billboard, Innovative Media, Integrated Campaign, Radio, Design and student work, and are judged by world-class juries made up of more than 100 top creatives from 65 countries.