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Digital Dandelion Takes Top International Creative Award - The 2010 Summit Creative Awards
2010-05-01
Digital Dandelion is a bronze winner in the 2010 Summit Creative Award competition for its logo design.
“Our company name, Digital Dandelion, originated from the idea of creating products that people immediately wanted to interact with and share with friends,” commented Jeremiah Cohick, President and Chief Gardener of Digital Dandelion. “We needed a logo to capture that as well. It’s a quite literal take on the form of a dandelion, comprised of asterisks and tilde.”
The Summit Creative Awards recognizes and celebrates the creative accomplishments of small and medium sized advertising agencies and other creative groups with annual billings of $30 million or less. Over the fifteen years, the competition has established itself as the premier arbiter of creative excellence for firms of this size.
This year’s panel of international judges included:
- Lisa Charlesbois, Senior Copywriter, Ogilvy One Worldwide – United States
- Louai Alasfahani, Managing Director/Creative Director, Paragon Marketing Communications – Kuwait
- Dan Geva, Senior Art Director, Harrison & Star – United States
- Ethan Jameson, Senior Copywriter, United States
- Ian Schwey, Associate Creative Director, doug agency - Canada
- Tom Roychoudhury, Chief Innovations Officer, MCN | Middle East Communications Network
an Interpublic Group Company - Christopher Jones, Principal & Creative Director, Stellar Debris Creative Studios – Japan
- Liam Wielopolski, Executive Creative Director, Bloom – Ireland
- David Ross, Associate Creative Director, EvoLogue – United States
- Kevin Hersh, Creative Director, MFX, Inc. – United States
- Tony Adamic, Owner/Creative Director, Elevator – Croatia
- Imelda Suriato, Creative Director, Squeaky Wheel Media – United States
- Ravinder Singh, Director, Strategy and Online Marketing, Kulwant Advisory – Kenya
Entries in 22 creative categories are judged against a stringent set of standards. During the blind judging events judges search for innovative and creative concepts, strong executions and the ability to communicate and persuade.
“Winning a Summit Creative Award is a significant accomplishment. The combination of our excellent judges and the tough judging criteria ensures that only deserving entries receive Summit recognized.” Said Jocelyn Luciano, Executive Director for the Summit International Awards. “It was an exciting year to watch and listen to the judges’ debate the details of individual entries. Making the decisions of which ones receive the top spots is hard.”
This year’s creative competition included companies from the following twenty-six countries: Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, India, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Martinique - French West Indies, Oman, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States and United Kingdom.
Winners were selected in categories that include print, broadcast, emerging media, online advertising, marketing materials, direct mail, green marketing, political, corporate video, public service, best idea never produced, industry self-promotion, and brand redesign.
The Summit International Awards (SIA) organization was founded in 1994. The organization conducts the Summit Creative Award, the Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award and the Summit Emerging Media Award. The 2009 competition is the 15th year for the creative competition. Additional information about the Summit International Awards organization, its competitions and winning firms can be found on the Summit Awards website.
About Digital Dandelion
Digital Dandelion, Inc. creates mobile and social network applications. The company was founded in 2008 and quickly gained attention as an awardee of a Facebook fbFund grant for Bottle Buzz, a social wine discovery utility.
Jeremiah Cohick, Arthur Nicholls and Mark Fish first met at Emerson College before joining Jonathan Pullan in Los Angeles. The team of developers, entrepreneurs, and social media specialists’ successes include marketing awards, profitable startups, successful mobile games, and projects for Fox, Nickelodeon, and MTV.
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