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The 2009 Clio Grand Print Winning Ad Campaign & The Other Winners

The CLIO Awards, one of the world’s most prestigious international advertising and design competitions honoring creative excellence and innovation in the industry, today announced the winners for the Communications Awards, which recognize Print, Direct Mail, Radio, Poster and Billboard mediums, as well as the new Strategic Communications/Public Relations medium.

This year, thus far, they've awarded 77 CLIOs Awarded (1 Grand, 12 Gold, 22 Silver, 42 Bronze)

The most pretigious award is called the Grand Clio and this year it went to a charming, simple print campaign done by CLM BBDO for Alka- Seltzer called "Dissolve Your Problems".

The 2009 Grand Clio Print Campaign Winner:

Bear:

Paparazzi:

Magician:

Prison:

Print campaign: Dissolve Your Problems (Campaign)
client: Alka-Seltzer
agency: CLM BBDO, Boulogne-Billancourt
creative directors: Jean Francois Sacco and Gilles Fichteberg
art director and illustrator: Paul Kreitmen
copywriter: Alex Benoit

Here's a list of the rest of the GOLD winners:

Gold CLIOS for Print:
• Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, London, Corporate/Institutional, "Inner Child" for Museum of Childhood.
• AlmapBBDO, São Paulo, Brazil, Automotive, Volkswagen Customized Trucks "Volkswagen Customized Trucks - Beer Box, Volkswagen Customized Trucks - Fruit Box, Volkswagen Customized Trucks - Milk Box, Volkswagen Customized Trucks - Egg Box" for Volkswagen Trucks.
• BBDO, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Automotive, Two Worlds "Bushman & Eskimo, Husky & Camel, Mountain Goat & Crocodile" for Jeep.
• Clemenger BBDO, Wellington, New Zealand, Public Service, Crashed Beds "Bridge, Tree, Creek" for Driver Fatigue.
• Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Martinez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Health Care Services, "Children - Tree" for Hospital Alemán - Kinder Plan.
• Leo Burnett & Arc Worldwide Thailand, Bangkok, Home Furnishings/Appliances, "Chicken, Fish, Lobster" for WMF.
• McCann Erickson, Madrid, Spain, Public Service, "Woman Shoe" for Greenpeace.
• Miami Ad School Europe (Student - Sandra Nicolas), Hamburg, Germany, Student, Inspired by Life "Porridge, Brother, Aunt" for Ikea.
• Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Public Service, "Stop" for Guinness.
• TBWA\Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt, Household Products, Mir Black "Mir Black - Spider, Mir Black - Arms" for Henkel.
• TBWA\Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt, Household Products, Mir Laine "Mir Laine 1, Mir Laine 2, Mir Laine 3, Mir Laine 4" for Henkel.

DIRECT MAIL, 13 CLIOs: 2 Gold, 4 Silver, 7 Bronze

Gold CLIOs:
• Lowe Limited, Bangkok, Thailand, Dimensional, "Torture Test" for Breeze Excel Washing Detergent.
• Philipp und Keuntje GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, Collateral, "Balloon" for Chubb Nord-Alarm Security Systems Company.

RADIO, 23 CLIOs: 6 Gold, 6 Silver, 11 Bronze

Gold CLIOs:
• DDB, Chicago, Beverages/Alcoholic, Real Men of Genius "Mr. Rain Delay Tarp Roller Outer, Mr. Golf Quiet Sign Holder, Mr. Football End Zone Painter, Mr. Football First Down Marker" for Anheuser-Busch.
• Grey, Melbourne, Australia, Public Service, Pictures of You, "Anne, George, Martin" for Anti-Speed Message.
• Grey South Africa, Sandton, Public Service, "Shark Attack" for Shark Life.
• Grupo Gallegos, Long Beach, Calif., Media, Subtitles "Epic, Robinson, Horror" for Comcast CableLatino.
• Network BBDO, Johannesburg, South Africa, Travel/Tourism, Plain Insanity "Ferret, Dancer, Dog" for Virgin Atlantic Airlines - Upper Class Suites.
• Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, Business Equipment/Services, Compression Radio "Soap Opera Romance, Eating Candy, Calling Tech Support" for StuffIt Deluxe.

POSTERS, 42 CLIOs: 6 Gold, 17 Silver, 19 Bronze

Gold CLIOs:
• Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, London, Corporate/Institutional, "Inner Child" for Museum of Childhood.
• BBDO Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Automotive, Two Worlds "Bushman & Eskimo, Husky & Camel, Mountain Goat & Crocodile" for Jeep.
• Big Ant International, New York, Public Service, "What Goes Around Comes Around" for Global Coalition for Peace.
• Contract Advertising India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India, Public Service, "Family Name" for Aadhar Association.
• Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Martinez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Health Care Services, Children "Tree, Cookie, Stairs" for Hospital Alemán - Kinder Plan.
• KNARF (Students - Annie Chiu, Anna Echiverri), New York, Student, "Subway Bench" for Victoria's Secret.

BILLBOARD, 20 CLIOs: 2 Gold, 7 Silver, 11 Bronze

Gold CLIOs:
• DDB, London, Media, "Global Downturn" for Financial Times.
• Leo Burnett, Toronto, Beverages/Alcoholic, "Share Our Billboard Campaign" for James Ready.

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS/PR, 9 CLIOs: 2 Gold, 4 Silver, 3 Bronze

• Edelman, Chicago, Consumer, "FilterForGood: Better Water, Less Waste" for Brita.
• Ketchum, San Francisco, Consumer, "Haagen-Dazs loves Honey Bees: Let's Lick This Problem" for Haagen-Dazs.

The CLIO Awards are produced by Nielsen Business Media, part of the Nielsen Co.

Congrats to all!

Trendir's Goof Is My Gain: Pressalit Toilet Seat Art Gallery

above: the seats misrepresented on Trendir as actual products

Someone over at Trendir, one of my favorite interior design sites, was asleep at the wheel..or keyboard, when they wrote their post about what they thought were interesting toilet seats and covers from Pressalit. What they actually did was show you the fun 'created' seats designed for the website (and as postcards you can order ) to explain the features of the Pressalit line (for example, green, luxury, sustainable woods, quiet, etc.)

I only know this because once I saw those images, I thought to myself, there's no way those are actual toilet seats and, upon further inspection, I found I was correct.

Pressalit does carry colored and wood seats as well as one heart shaped wooden seat and one special edition soccer ball/football seat. And they can customize seats with a logo or line art for you as well:

But all those fun looking seats shown on Trendir are not Pressalit's actual products. They do make auto-close seats that function smoothly and quietly as well as contoured seats, but frankly, they're nothing to write home about... or in this case, blog about.

The Pressalit line:

Available colors and finishes:

What is of interest, however, is their 2007 project in which they asked 20 different designers to experiment with their core product - the toilet seat. Now, I'd never have found this if I didn't explore their site based on Trendir's goof up. So thanks to them, you can now be privy to this unusual art project.

The 2007 project “Pressalit Art Gallery” resulted in unusual solutions and interpretations of toilet seats in just as many different and untraditional materials.

The result of the designers interpretations were among others a football seat (which they now sell a variant of), a disco seat designed for Madonna, a floating hot air balloon seat and an actual turtle seat.

Here are the images of various toilet seat covers from the project for you:

designer: Tchai Munch
material: glass

designer: Carpenter Borge Aaby
material: wood

Several different designs were created by designer Nis Ollgaard in the project;
Hair used for Punk, a mohawk on the lid. Heart shaped wood seat and cover:

His tribute to Madonna with the 'disco' seat:

And his hand stitched leather, grass and dirt Football seat:

designer: Jefsper Kofoed Thomsen
materials: balloons and colored removable ribbons

designer: Bess Kristoffersen
materials: aluminum

designer: Babro Aaberg
material: ceramics

designer: Bent Vinkler
material: wickerwork and metal

designers: Nis Ollgaaard and Vagn Iversen
material: turtle as lid

About the designers:

A limited edition book of this art project is available:

for the book above e-mail lbt@presalit.com (book price is 40 euros)

website

Factory
Isagervej 30
Dk-8680 Ry

Despite this one error, Trendir is a terrific and informative site.

Now, if it's wild toilets you want to see, check out these colored, chromed and Swarovski studded toilets here!

Design For Swine: Artsy Fun Fashionable Face Masks For Sale

There have been lots of fun 'photoshopped' phony designer protective face masks on the web as a result of the world's fixation on this potential pandemic. But, someone has actually created and is selling some truly fun ones.

Designer/Art Director Irina Blok has designed a fun series of 9 fashionable protective face masks given the present state of swine-flu panic.

You can click on the images to enlarge.

Leopard print, pill-popping and zipper:

Beard, duct tape and piggy:

Oink, skull and lips:

One little factoid: She originally had included a cute 'Domo' mask (shown below) but Domo asked her to remove it suggesting that it was 'damaging their brand'.

She will produce a very limited edition of these in about 4 weeks (according to her site) and they will cost about $10 (plus $3 S&H). E-mail her here to get your name on the list.