Dubai Lynx Awards 2008 – Pictures of winners in Print, Direct and Media
Dubai Lynx Awards have passed and I have blogged about the exciting bits, before and after the awards. But my blog’s readers want more. The Dubai Lynx website has so much coverage this time, with shortlisted ads up there too open for anyone to lookup, I felt putting up the winners here was unnecessary.
But then, everyone loves pictures – and I do have some nice ones readers of the blog would like, taken by me from right under the stage (the press seats and my agency tables were at a distance so I just sat on the carpet - with all the journalist buddies – in true paparazzi style. Closer to the action.)
So here goes another post with some great Dubai Lynx memories in pictures…
Steve Lane, Festival Director Dubai of Dubai International Advertising Festival, takes the mic at the Dubai Lynx Awards ceremony.
Some of the Dubai Lynx Winners – Print – Gold
Fortune Promoseven (FP7) Dubai with their Dubai Lynx Gold for Sony’s Incar DVD Player work
Fortune Promoseven (FP7) Doha win Dubai Lynx Gold for their print work ‘Dynamo’ for NESTLÉ Purina Dog Chow
Fortune Promoseven (FP7) Doha with their Dubai Lynx Print Gold for ‘Medal of Honor’, EA Games, BD Group.
Fortune Promoseven (FP7) Dubai with their Dubai Lynx Gold Awards in Print for Sony’s Tiny 4GB Microvault work.
Grey Worldwide Dubai team with their Dubai Lynx Gold Awards for their print work for Yellow Pages Directory.
Dubai Lynx Awards Winners – Print Grand Prix
Fortune Promoseven (FP7) Doha celebrates their Dubai Lynx Awards Print Grand Prix for ‘Medal of Honor’, EA Games, BD Group.
FP7 Doha’s campaign for BD Group’s EA Games won the agency a lot of metal. Chris Becker, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Draftfcb New York and the jury president of the TV/Cinema, Print, Outdoor & Radio and Integrated juries at the 2008 Dubai Lynx Awards called it “a stunning piece of work”. “It could win anywhere in the world,” Chris said pointing to its universal appeal and the level of craft it exhibited.
Dubai Lynx Awards – Interactive – One Gold, No Grand Prix
Wolfgang Haf, Chief Executive Officer of Wunderman Central Europe, and the Direct & Interactive Dubai Lynx jury president announces the winners of Dubai Lynx Awards in the Interactive category. Interactive had no Grand Prix, and only one Dubai Lynx Gold to JWT Kuwait’s work for Zain’s E-Go mobile internet connection. As I had earlier predicted – interactive still has a long way to go in the region.
Dubai Lynx Awards – Some of the Direct category winners
JWT Beirut team with their Dubai Lynx Gold Award for their Direct work ‘12 Days of Christmas’ for Hepattitude Positive, an NGO in Lebanon.
Memac Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) team with their Dubai Lynx Gold Awards for their ‘Soft Speed Bump’ work for Volvo.
Dubai Lynx Advertising Person of the Year
Joseph Ghossoub accepts the first Dubai Lynx Advertising Person of the Year Award. He spoke of the advertising community being ‘brothers’, of ‘keeping the passion alive’ and his 30 years in advertising. Ghossoub is the President and CEO of The Holding Group (THG) the parent company of Team/Young & Rubicam, Intermarkets Advertising, ASDA’A public relations, mediaedge:cia and Wunderman. He is also the outgoing Chairman and World President of the International Advertising Association.
Joseph Ghossoub shares a golden moment with Mohamed Al Mulla, director of Dubai Media City.
Dubai Lynx Awards – some winners in the newly introduced ‘Media’ category
The OMD Dubai team celebrates their Dubai Lynx Gold Award for Best Use of Television/Cinema for Wrigley’s Extra chewing gum.
JWT Dubai show off their Dubai Lynx Gold Awards for Best Use of Ambient: Small Scale for Daryl Patni’s website www.darylstock.com
OMD Digital beaming with their Dubai Lynx Award for Best Use of the Internet/New Media including mobile phones.
The Wunderman ME Dubai team won a Dubai Lynx Gold for Best Use of Special Events/Stunts/Live Advertising where they sent live fish to IT people so that they are ‘Lonely No More’ on behalf of Microsoft. This one was one of my favourite entries.
The big one – Dubai Lynx Awards Grand Prix for TV
Take a good look at these Leo Burnett Cairo guys – they are the ones who brought us the Melody TV campaign. I have never watched Melody TV but the fact that there are ads in this part of the world whose creators are not afraid to laugh at themselves makes me look forward to TV spots coming out of Egypt. Specially if it is ‘All Eengleesh. All za ta-eeem.’ They won the TV Grand Prix – and truly we very well deserved win. These are the only TV spots I have played again and again on YouTube and laughed every time!
Note: All pictures are copyright-protected. Get in touch with me at farrukh.copywriter(at)gmail.com if you’d like to use them.
Useful PDF downloads:
1. Dubai Lynx TV/Cinema Winners List
2. Dubai Lynx Print Winners List
3. Dubai Lynx Outdoor Winners List
4. Dubai Lynx Radio Winners List
5. Dubai Lynx Direct Winners List
6. Dubai Lynx Interactive Winners List
7. Dubai Lynx Media Winners List
8. Dubai Lynx Integrates Winners List
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Lotsa happy people!
1The guys look exactly like the guys at any UK ad awards bash, right down to the greasy jeans. Because they ARE the guys at any UK ad awards bash.
But where are the women?
These people are used to agencies full of female creative staff, admins and support people. Women bosses, even.
Does no-one comment on this?
Oh yes that’s the first thing i noticed too! Where are the women???
2Advertising, public relations and allied fields are typically buzzing with creative women…why are they missing so conspicuously on the awards stage? Curious.
The stage was full of women, ladies. So is the industry here in the UAE. Women head creative departments and agencies too like anywhere else.
I’ve had the honour of working with some of the most creative and wonderful women in business. I’m more than happy to credit or interview or showcase women in the industry but not really in favour of putting women’s pics on my blog.
farrukh
3whr is young creative award winner photo
4i am the gold winner of dubai lynx 2008 ( young creative) why you dont put our photo
5Hi Abdul,
Congrats for being the winner. I think it was a team effort, with you and your partner.
The answer to your question is in my reply above your comments.
farrukh
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