Covid Year
Running a creative awards and festival (well just awards this year, see worldwide pandemic thingy) there are certain things that we absolutely MUST get right. Get these things wrong and we simply wouldn't last (nb: we're in our 58th year). Maybe the most important thing is getting the right judges. Judges that entrants can look at and think "yeah, I'm happy they have the right stuff to judge my work". We won't wax lyrical here about the quality of the judges/juries we've managed to put together this year, their bios will tell you all you need to know. But we would like you to keep in mind how flexible they've been in the present, very tricky Covid climate that has been (week-to week sometimes) changing how we can and will be carrying out the judging. This year we needed to find brilliant creative minds who can also roll with the punches. Creativity with calm. We believe this is what our judges have given us and we're very grateful.
Judges
Advertising Grand Prix
This year's Advertising Grand Prix is awarded jointly to ad agency Droga5 in London and to production company Biscuit Filmworks UK for client Setapp.
Director: Jeff Lowe. Agency creatives: Ed Redgrave, Dave Wigglesworth, Nick Lindo Sebastien Thomas.
Creative Director David Kolbusz
Advertising Post Production Company of the Year
Amazing year for The Electric Theatre Collective with a haul of 8 Sharks (4 bronze, 2 silver and 2 golds). Wins were gained across the whole spectrum of post production; from colour grading, VFX & CGI, animation design to character animation. A veritable A-list of clients including; Great Western Railway, IKEA, Apple, Deutsche Telekom and of course Settapp
So many artistes involved we can't name them all here!
However, you can see their winning work by visiting our winners page at: https://kinsalesharks.awardsengine.com/winners/
Design Grand Prix
The Great White Shark was awarded to Design Agency Common Curiosity
Client: Sculpt Interior Architectural Studio
Designers: Alex Woolley & Paul Felton
Photographer: Jack Sppicer & Handover
Copywriter: Jack Needham
Animator: Dan Silverstone
Sculpt is an interior architectural studio and workshop helping reshape, redesign and refine spaces. The rebrand needed to echo Sculpt's fundamental principles – Reshape, Redesign, Refine — and give the Sculpt brand greater visibility across the full client journey, from promotional materials, proposals and plans, on-site visibility, and custom material samples.