Creative Circle results for Feb, Mar, Apr 2009

If you've been wondering what been happening with Creative Circle judging these past few months, wonder no more - here are the results for February, March and April 2009. Congratulations to all concerned, as the Creative Circle always says.

26 May 2009

Category	February 2009	March 2009	April 2009
Newspaper	1. VW/Polo - Ridiculously Small Prices “Snail/Dragon Fly” - Ogilvy CT	1. Energiser/Rechargeable 360 Lantern - Don't Trust the Dark “Chair/Stairs/Shelf” - DDB SA	1. Unilever SA/Sunlight Anti-Bacterial Dishwashing Liquid “Plate/Chopsticks/Lunch Box” - Lowe Bull Jhb
	2. Colgate SA/Junior Toothpaste “Tooth Fairy” - Y&R Jhb	1. 24.com/Net Ads - Buy Sell “Tongue Ring/Glasses/Punch Bag” - FoxP2	1. Volkswagen/Driving Academy - Hazards become Obvious “Clown/Tree/Horse” Ogilvy CT
		3. Reckitt Benkiser/Windolene “The Bling” - Euro RSCG	2. E Snell/Gringo's Tequila “El Matador Peligroso/Jesus/La Azteca de Miel” - Volcano
Magazine	1. Independent Newspaper/Cape Argus “Ignorance Removal” - King James CT	Due to few entries, this category was held over until the following month.	1. Clorox/Glad Wrap “Pineapple/Avocado Pear/Watermelon” - DDB SA
	2. Kaya FM 95.9 “Platinum” - The Firehouse		1. 8Ink Media/National Geographic Kids Mag - Mars is no Fun “Meteor/Bubbles/Pathfinder” - FoxP2
	3. JHB Zoo “Binoculars” - Grey SA		2. Reckitt Benckiser/Mr Min “Pinocchio” - Euro RSCG
Outdoor	1. Nike SA/Lightweight Wear “Street/Sidewalk/Field” - Ogilvy Jhb	1. The Zimbabwean Newspaper “Trillion Dollar Wallpaper” - TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris\Jhb	1. Makita/Drills “20 562 Holes/20 081 Holes” - Saatchi & Saatchi Jhb
	2. Two Oceans Aquarium; Save our Seas - Shark Awareness “Warning - Human Saatchi & Saatchi	2. Nedbank “Recycled Billboard” - Net#work BBDO Jhb	2. Cadbury/Clorets - Scratch & Sniff “Cheese/Garlic/Fish” - Ogilvy CT
	3. SANCA “Needles 1” - Ogilvy CT	3. Netflorist “Liz/Diana/Britney” - Draftfcb Jhb	3. Isca Taps “Where Hands are Washed” - FoxP2
TV/cinema	1. Steers “Good Guy Man Hug” - King James Jhb	1. Audi SA/Audi Q5 “Flip Book” - Ogilvy Jhb	1. Chicken Licken/Soul Fire “Snowman” - Net#work BBDO Jhb
	2. Touchline Media/Sports Illustrated Super XIV “Sport is Meer Sports in Afrikaans/Sport is More Fun in Afrikaans - Saatchi & Saatchi	2. Steers “Skype” - KingJames Jhb	2. MTN/Fifa World Cup 2010 “Lift” - DDB SA
	3. Vodacom/Rugby “Player 23” - Draftfcb Jhb	2. Chicken Licken/Love Me Tender Burger “Singing Burger” - Net#work BBDO Jhb	3. Exclusive Books/Fanatics Club “Charades” - Ogilvy Jhb
	3. Talk 4U/Safety “Holly TVC” - Lowe Bull CT	3. Volkswagen/Polo - Ridiculously Small Prices “Beetle” - Ogilvy CT
Radio	1. Parmalat/Aylesbury Ice Cream “Kid/Husban/Sister” - Net#work BBDO CT	1. Cell C “Labour/Winner/I Love You” - Net#work BBDO Jhb	1. I&J Omega 3 Fish Fingers “URL” - Net#work BBDO CT
	2. Vodacom/Valentine's Day “Jeff & Vuyo” - Draftfcb Jhb	2. Steers “Steak Burger” - King James Jhb	2. Constantia Insurance “Antique/Surname” - Draftfcb Jhb
		3. Tiger Brands/Doom Multi Insect Killer - Romantic Tragedies “Star Crossed” TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris\Jhb	3. CNA/Books/DVD's/Musica “The Queen does the Queen/Gollum on Wildlife/Stephen Hawking does Romance” - The Jupiter Drawing Room (South Africa)
Experiential	1. Cell C/Diary 2009 “Eco Diary” - Net#work BBDO Jhb
	2. King James/Corporate “What's Your Story?” - King James CT
	3. FoxP2/Financial Mail Entry “Contamination Box” - FoxP2

Category	March 2009 chairperson comments	April 2009 chairperson comments
General	Hard times... Short, easy day for the judges. Very little work. It's good to see some are forging ahead and not letting tough times slow them down. Well done to those still doing great stuff.
Newspaper	Two clear winners for tied first place. And once again a beautiful piece from the guys at FoxP2 - nice one.	Some fresh approaches in rather staid categories shone through. (Not that Tequila is staid, the other two.)
Magazine	What magazine? Not enough work to judge.	Nothing separating the winners in this category, so two strong entries stayed tie-first. Nothing exciting beyond that, so no third place.
Outdoor	Using billboards in a fresh way always works. A good top three. However, as nice as third was, it had some flaws as a poster. There is still time to fix things though, like 10-point copy. Also some other nice "PRINT" ideas in the outdoor category. When are we going to stop enlarging print ads to posters and not adapting them accordingly?	A really strong outdoor idea for Makita drills was the clear favourite of the panel, with a clearly a lot of craft going into the execution.
TV/cinema	Cars vs fast food this month. Once again easy to pick out the good from the "not so good". There was some discussion on originality so the jury judged accordingly.	It was a long week, the panel needed a laugh... and TV gave it to us with three funny ads coming through. A really fresh idea for Chicken Licken (I think a lot of people would have liked to be a fly on wall in the meeting when they sold that idea).
Radio	It was refreshing to happily mark a few radio pieces as winners. Nice one, Cell C. Let's keep pushing on Radio.	No dispute on the top three; looking a bit thin beyond those.

February 2009 judges	March 2009 judges	April 2009 judges
Molefi Thulo, Draftfcb (chair)	Gareth Lessing, DDB SA (chair)	Brett Morris, Draftfcb (chair)
Darren Borrino, DDB SA	Fiona O'Conner, Euro RSCG	Justin Wanliss, Euro RSCG
Juliet Honey, Lowe Bull	Eoin Welsh, Lowe Bull	Mick Shepard, Mick&Nick
Brent Singer, Net#work BBDO	Reggie Makhetha, Net#work BBDO	Donovan Goliath, Net#work BBDO
Terry McKenna, Grey SA	Clint Bechus, Joe Public	Nicole Binikos, Black River FC
James Cloete, TJDR	Tom Cullinan, TJDR	Trevor Sacks, Grey
Konstant van Huysten, Old Shanghai Firecracker Factory	Justin Wright, TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris	Bennie du Plessis, Saatchi & Saatchi
Jacques Shalom, McCann	Alexa Crana, Ogilvy	Alison Hingle, Ogilvy
Ian Broekhuizen, Ogilvy	Mike Wilson, King James	Vanessa Gibson, TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris
		Warwick Rautenbach, Ireland/Davenport