The 49th Annual ADCNJ Awards Show was a raging success. Over 117 awards for creativity were bestowed on the best creative work from NJ based Agencies and Art Directors, Designers, Photographers, Illustrators and Videographers. Watch the video. Uncle Floyd was our comedic host for the show and he did not let anyone down as he kept [...]
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Creatives Celebrate at the ADCNJ’s 49th Annual Awards Show
Posted: May 22, 2012 in ADCNJ Awards Show Judging, ADCNJ Member's, ADCNJ Nights, Art Directors, Creative Artists, Creative Awards Shows, Designers, Kean College of NJ, Thinking Creatively ConferenceTags: ADCNJ, Annual Awards Show, Birchwood Manor, Creative Awards, Lew Kraut Awards, New Jersey Creative Awards, Nicklefish, Pantone, Smith Design, Uncle Floyd
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Gruskin Group Gets Students to Think Creatively at Charrette Event
Posted: April 26, 2012 in 2012 Let's Charrette, ADCNJ Member's, Branding Programs, Creative Artists, Designers, Kean College of NJ, Thinking Creatively Conference, UncategorizedThis year’s annual Thinking Creatively conference, hosted by Kean College featured the creative shoot out where students, studying graphic design, architecture and interior design, join forces to compete for bragging rights at the Let’s Charrette event. Al Montagna, President of Small Earth Visual Communications, discusses concepts with his team. Sponsored by ADCNJ members, The Gruskin Group, [...]
County College of Morris Presents Their Graphic Design Student Portfolio Show
Posted: April 20, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: ADCNJ, County College of Morris, Graphic design, Steve Longo, student portfolio show
Springtime is when all of the county colleges round up all of their creative artists and photographers and present their work. This year, I joined a group of art directors at the County College of Morris to view the graphic design department’s student portfolio show. The coordinator of the graphic design department is internationally recognized [...]
Multi-channel Branding and PR Featured at January’s ADCNJ Event
Posted: January 30, 2012 in ADCNJ Member's, ADCNJ Nights, Art Directors, Branding Programs, Creative Artists, Designers, Innovations, Public RelationsIn today’s competitive and diverse marketing environment a creative marketer must learn how to incorporate cross-media communications in their new business development campaigns if they want it to succeed. With the increased usage of on-line communities like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, segmented communities are now available to be approached with targeted messages in ways never [...]
Creative people are always cooking up unique ways to launch their clients’ products and when it comes to launching their own, they take every opportunity to get the word out. This year, at the annual NJ Marcom Holiday Party at Mayfair Farms, member’s manned the ADCNJ sponsor’s table during the unveiling of the club’s new [...]
ADCNJ Design Derby Draws on Student’s Talents
Posted: November 17, 2011 in ADCNJ Design Derby, Art DirectorsTags: ADCNJ, Creative design, Design Derby, Graphic design, NJ design community, student design
Presenting concepts. On the sunny morning of Saturday, October 22, over 110 students from nine schools, including Montclair State University, Seton Hall University, College of New Jersey, Kean University, County College of Morris, Sussex County Community College, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Rutgers University, Newark Campus and Brookdale Community College converged on the campus of SCCC for the 16th Annual Design Derby. This was the second consecutive year [...]
NY ADC Carneval Was Real Freaky
Posted: October 29, 2011 in ADCNJ Member's, ADCNY, Art Directors, Creative Artists, Designers, NY Art Directors, UncategorizedTags: ADCNJ, ADCNY, Art Directors, Creative Designers, Creative industry, Holsten's in Bloomfield, Illustrators, Korean food, Kun Gan San, NJ, NY Art Directors, photographers, Ron Travisano, What designers do
When the NY Art Directors have an event, it pays to go. I joined ad agency icon Ron Travisano (who was kind enough to drive into NY), Bernie Zlotnick, (another industry pertinent Art Director) who currently is teaching the newbies how it’s done, and my “brother” Steve Longo, one of the top corporate identity and [...]
Brooklyn Beer and iPad Insights at September’s ADCNJ Event
Posted: September 24, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: ADCNJ, Creative design, marketing, New Jersey
Montclair, NJ September’s ADCNJ event originally featured Eric Ottaway from Brooklyn Brewery and his Agency Creative head. At the last minute Eric’s agency co presenter got sick and industry recognized illustrator, Joe Zeff was drafted and shared some of his experiences in learning and developing interactive social iPad applications for his many clients. I got [...]
Whippany, NJ With 138 Winners, this years ADCNJ Annual Awards Show was one of the largest in the history of the club. Normally, most awards shows are simply reading from a text, calling up the winners and are considered dull, but this year, our favorite comedian, Sarge, provided the spark and humor necessary to elevate [...]
Thinking Creatively Brought New Paths of Thinking to Students
Posted: April 8, 2011 in UncategorizedUnion, NJ Over 80 students from NJ colleges attended the 8th Annual Thinking Creatively Conference held at Kean College. The students all participated in the Design Charrette hosted by The Gruskin Group. Designers from all facets of the creative industry served as mentors to their creative teams in order to guide them in making their [...]
