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Best of Show @ SD Ad Club Awards
For Immediate Release:
NEWS FROM THE SAN DIEGO ADVERTISING CLUB
April 7, 2008
The San Diego Advertising Club presented 120 awards for excellence in 15 different professional advertising and graphic design categories to 38 different advertising and marketing companies at its 2008 San Diego ADDY's Creative Show Friday (April 4) at the La Jolla Marriott in La Jolla.
Weldon Donaldson, who has worked in advertising sales for more than 40 years and has served on the boards of numerous non-profit agencies and community organizations, was honored as the 2008 recipient of the Paula E. Sullivan Award for outstanding career achievement. Donaldson, currently a consultant with the National City Mile of Cars, worked at KFMB-TV for 24 years and has served on the Holiday Bowl Committee for 16 years. He has served as a board member for the Hall of Champions, Crimestoppers, Downtown YMCA, Our Lady of Peace High School and was a founding board member of the San Diego Advertising Fund for Emergencies (SAFE), a non-profit that assists local advertising and media professionals facing a life crisis. The Sullivan award is named after the woman who opened the city's first all-woman advertising and public relations agency in 1946.
Creative Show awards, called an ADDY, were presented in three different categories -- Gold (1st place), Silver (2nd place) and Bronze (3rd place), as well as Best of Show. Categories included sales promotion, collateral materials, direct marketing, out-of-home advertising, non-traditional advertising, consumer or trade publications, newspaper, interactive media, radio, television (including cinema), mixed media, advertising for the arts and sciences, public service, self-promotion and elements of advertising.
Recipients of Best of Show awards were MeringCarson in the professional category for the agency's work for the California Travel & Tourism Commission, and Brad Muramoto of The Art Institute of California - San Diego in the student category for his work on Petsmart. Judges Special Awards were presented to Murphy Design's Mark Murphy and Peter Delgado of The Art Institute of California - San Diego.
Among the San Diego Creative Show recipients with multiple awards: Bailey Gardiner (one Gold, two Silver, three Bronze); Farm Advertising (five Silver, six Bronze); Greenhaus Advertising (one Gold, five Silver, six Bronze); Matthews Evans Albertazzi (one Gold, two Silver, two Bronze); MEA Advertising (two Silver, one Bronze); MeringCarson (four Gold, 10 Silver, nine Bronze); Mentus (one Gold, one Bronze); MJE Marketing (two Bronze); Murphy Design (one Gold, three Silver); Savacool Secviar (three Silver, two Bronze); Shilo Advertising (five Gold, three Bronze); Studio Conover (five Silver, three Bronze); 9Myles (two Bronze); Fishtank Brand Advertising (one Silver, one Bronze); Lyon Advertising (two Bronze); Mobile Marketing Nationwide (two Bronze); Ninthlink Interactive (one Silver, one Bronze); Red Door Interactive (two Bronze); Sapient Advertising (one Silver, one Bronze); The Starmack Group (two Bronze); and University of San Diego (two Bronze).
For the second year in a row, students from The Art Institute of California - San Diego swept the student competition with 34 awards to 21 students in 12 categories. Student winners of multiple awards included: Brad Muramoto (Best of Show, one Gold); Peter Delgado (Special Judges Award, one Gold); Kyle Klemetsrud (one Gold, two Bronze); Mina Lee (one Gold, one Silver); Ryan Rosene (one Gold, one Silver, one Bronze); Jordan Roach (two Silver); David Gonsalves (one Silver, one Bronze); Maeden Cruz (two Silver); Ana Galvez (one Silver); Victoria Labra (two Silver); Jose Elsinger (two Bronze); and Gabiel Meza (two Bronze).