Karen Cinnamon was Creative judge last night at the 2012 Freelancer of the Year awards
The awards – the brainchild of recruitment company Xchangeteam and trade body the PCG, the voice of freelancers in the UK – recognise the best freelance talent in the UK media and communications industries.
Judges from the marketing, media and communications community selected six category winners and one overall winner. The categories were: Digital Excellence, Creative, Marketing, PR and Communications, and Agency Client Services
Judging the Creative category, Karen Cinnamon applauded “the proof that an inspired freelancer not only exceeds their brief, but can add value in ways their clients hadn’t even envisaged.”
With live tweets throughout proceedings under the hashtag #FOTY, the Freelancer of the Year awards were presented in Holborn House, WC1. 2012 was the event’s eighth year.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Karen Cinnamon judges 2012 Freelancer of the Year awards
Monday, April 4, 2011
Karen Cinnamon wins Advertising & Design Freelancer of the Year Award 2011.
Karen won the accolade Xchangeteam Advertising & Design Freelancer of the Year 2011 at the UK’s only awards ceremony to recognise freelancers in the media, marketing and communications industries.
Advertising & Design was the highest entered category this year with 53 nominations in total, with 6 finalists.
Judge Matt Potter said, "Karen’s sheer joy in her work shines through, not just in her award entry but in the quality of the work she does, and in the feedback she gets from clients.
Her ability to cut through the hyperbole and find the heart of the issue is her true strength and in a competitive market for freelancers, she’s a great example of someone who pulls off difficult work for demanding clients... and makes it look easy."
Karen additionally was Highly Commended in the Digital Excellence category.
More details on the results here.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Award for Campaign that celebrates Honda staff returning to their jobs
Honda's upbeat press ads to celebrate staff's return to work as its Swindon factory re-opened has won an award for best national newspaper campaign of last month.
The campaign featured poems in praise of workers at the plant, which closed for four months earlier this year because of the slump in car sales, against a background of images evoking factory life such as bacon, a cup of tea and an iron.
All five ads in the campaign, by agency Wieden & Kennedy London, have been nominated for the national ad of the year of awards to be held in January.
Darren Bailes, the creative director at ad agency VCCP and an awards judge, said the Honda campaign effectively operated as "news in the form of advertising".
The temporary closure of Honda's factory saw 1,300 workers take voluntary redundancy and the remaining 3,400 agree a 3% pay cut for 10 months. Employees said they were pleased to return to work at the plant.
"The reopening could have been swept under the carpet all too easily, the shutdown being seen as a real blow to the pride of the brand," said Bailes. "This recession is something we are all in together, the workers and the manufacturers are all in the same boat."
From Media Guardian
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
European Design Awards 2008
Check out the the results of the European Design Awards 2008 by clicking here.
