It’s fitting that creative director Will McGinness of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, has been named jury chairman of the 2008 One Show Interactive awards in that he comes from a shop that’s undergone what he described as “a seismic transformation” in recent years, diversifying successfully into the interactive space.
“Over half the work we do now is in new media and digital,” he related. “Interactive is a huge part of the agency’s DNA.”
But it’s important to note, continued McGinness, that the agency’s transformation “has been about tearing down disciplinary walls so that we can work across mediums. That’s a big part of the agency dynamic. Creatives here have the opportunity to move back and forth, in and about new media, digital and the more traditional, working in TV and print. It’s an exciting time creatively to be able to span all of this.”
McGinness has been working most recently, for example, on Hyundai, encompassing TV, print, interactive, outdoor and other media. He also had a creative hand in the TV, print and online for Rolling Rock and the interactive for the California Milk Processor Board’s “got milk?” campaigns which includes the currently running “Get The Glass.” initiative.
McGinness said he jumped at the chance to serve as One Show Interactive chair. “It’s just a great barometer of the interactive world. Chairing the jury is a great opportunity to not only see what the industry is up to but to meet some incredible people. You can get so bogged down with your day-to-day workload that you don’t always get the chance to see all the worthwhile work that’s being done throughout the world–and you definitely don’t get the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with creatives from other agencies from all over the globe.”
Hailing from 10 countries, the jury will meet in New York from March 24-27 to select the recipients of the One Show Interactive awards. Winners will be announced on May 9 at an awards ceremony in New York.
McGinness will chair a jury that includes such creatives as: Mauricio Alarcon of Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Miami; Mathias Appelblad and Sophia Lindholm of Foresman & Bodenfors, Stockholm; Sam Ball of Lean Mean Fighting Machine, London; Laura Jordan Bambach of Glue, London; Lars Bastholm of AKQA, New York; Nicke Bergstrom of Farfar, Stockholm; Jorge Calleja of Wieden+Kennedy, Amsterdam; Xavi Caparros of DoubleYou, Barcelona; Pete Case of Gloo Digital, Cape Town; Hillman Curtis of Hillman Curtis, New York; Dirk Eschenbacher of Tribal DDB, Asia Pacific, Shanghai; Bjorn Hoglund of Daddy, Gotenburg, Sweden; Rei Inamoto of AKQA, San Francisco; Kris Kiger of R/GA, New York; Sean Lam of Kinetic, Singapore; Alessandra Lariu of Agency Republic, London; David Lee of Wieden+Kennedy, London; Michael Lebowitz of Big Spaceship, New York; Mauricio Mazzariol of Big Man, Sao Paolo; Entic Nell-lo of Shackleton Digital, Barcelona; Benjamin Palmer of The Barbarian Group, Boston; Fabio Simeos Pinto of F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Sao Paulo; Matt Powell of Profero, London; and Koichiro Tanaka of Projector, Tokyo.
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"Berlin ER"
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Jones says she eventually got used to the blood and gore on the set.
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