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Good God! Key Art Judgment Day Is Nearly Upon Us

Juries have been announced for the 2012 Key Art Awards which take place October 17, at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome.

The Print Jury is as follows:

Chair:  James Verdesoto, Principal, Indika, NYC

Kenny Gravillis, Co-Owner, Creative Director, Gravillis, Inc

Brad Johnson, Co-owner, Creative Director, Arsonal

Adam Waldman, Co-Owner, Creative Director, The Refinery

Stephan Lapp, Co-Owner, Creative Director, Iconisus L&Y

Tomasz Opasinski, Partner, Creative Director, REV Creative

Karen Crawford, Partner, Creative Director, Blood & Chocolate,

John McMahon, President/General Manager, Art Machine

Charles Reimers, Executive Creative Director, Bemis Balkind

Melchior Lamy, Creative Director, Television, Cold Open

David Ikeda, Creative Director, Ignition Print

Laura Debole, Creative Director, Matsuno Design Group

Chris St. George, Associate Creative Director, BLT Communications

Frank Cacho, Senior Art Commander, Midnight Oil Creative

Complete list of juries here

Hi Ho Everybody!

This is a response to "Happy at Work" who made the following comment in response to our post regarding the print judging of the Key Art Awards:

All the people who write on this blog are whiny failures. Keep posting here because its the only thing you'll ever be successful at. I mean, are you all serious with this venom shit? Is that the point of this pathetic blog? Please someone explain it to me.

Dear Happy At Work,

Seeing that there were Gold Key Art Awards handed out for Theatrical Trailer, Motion Poster, Viral, Motion Graphics, Editing, Music/Licensed Trailer and Music/Original Trailer and yet no piece of actual key art won a Gold Key Art Award at the so-called Key Art Awards, one might assume that while print art directors are not exactly failures, they certainly are not exactly winners either.

As to point of this pathetic blog, it is to provide a forum where anonymous people such as you can post anonymous comments such as yours.

Cordially yours, Edwina Trout

We're All Second Place Winners Here (Except For You Third Place Losers)

40 years ago the Key Art Awards were created to honor outstanding achievement in movie one-sheets. This year the KAA’s esteemed panel of print judges made that category irrelevant.

If you’re like us, you know all too well how competitive, self-absorbed and downright batshit crazy most of your fellow art directors are. Which is why it was such a hare-brained idea to name a “jury of peers” consisting of agency principals then instruct these titans of industry not to vote on their own work.

Puh-lease. This aint the Nobel Prize. They’re posters for movies and tv shows, for chrissake. Get over your bad self. Pick one you like, give it an award and get back to begging clients to acknowledge your invoices. Or better yet, quit this butt-numbing event all together and start one just for print and outdoor.

Oh Look! It’s Whosits And Whatshername!

Click on the image below to see more photos taken at last week's gala Undistinguished Employees Ball.

And The Winner Is... Nothing!

The Key Art Awards are Hollywood's most recognized awards competition for advertising and communications. This year, THR teamed with the Clio Awards to change the judging methods. The five judging panels, made up senior level creatives in each medium, ranked the entries on three levels: gold, silver and bronze. However, each jury was not obligated to award a gold or silver to any work if they felt nothing was worthy of the ranking.

Click here to see a photo gallery  of this most recognized awards competition.

Click here to see a complete list of the winners.

A Reader Writes: "Goin' All Erin Brockovich An' Shit"

Dear Edwina, so… over cocktails, an associate said, "You've heard about the class action lawsuit? People who bought Key Art tickets at face value suing to get a refund now that they are giving all the tickets away."

And I do know they are literally giving the tickets away.  They are dumping big blocks of free tickets on various institutions… I've seen 'em!

But is the lawsuit for real?

As much as we’d like to see Julia Roberts sink her teeth into another Oscar®-winning role as a white trash defender of the down-trodden, the idea of a lawsuit seems unlikely, given the lack of vertebrae among vendors in this business. 

Besides, according the Key Art Awards' Events page on Facebook, the headcount stands at: 14 Attending, 4 Not Attending, 5 Maybe Attending and 16 Awaiting Reply!

Just Curious... Does The Tony Montana Reference Mean It's Open Carry At The Key Art Awards?

Dear Edwina,

They can't give them away! A great gift idea for your favorite homeless person.

Signed, Ben There

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Tony Blutarsky Writes

I think it's time to take back the Key Art Awards! This thing isn't over! Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! It's time to #occupykeyartawards - who's with me?

A Reader Reports

Dear Edwina,

As if the Key Arts showing of the winners online was not enough (whoops!) Now they are calling shops offering free sets of tickets. So what does that mean for the poor bastard that already bought a ticket for the published $299 price?

Signed, Mr. No Show

Is this so? Given the deep bench they had assembled for their jury pool, we find this puzzling. Goodness knows veracity is not the forte of our readers  - or this blog; but if this is the case, we'd love to know who the poor bastard is who bought that one ticket.

  

One Of Us. One Of Us. One Of Us.

At long last our whiny prayers have been answered. Network and cable tv advertising has been included in this year's THR Key Art nominees.

Here is the complete list of print category finalists

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America Once Again In Crisis As Key Art Deadline Looms

If you’re like us, you cannot function without a deadline hanging over your head. That’s why we’re waiting until the very last minute to enter in this year’s Race For Respect. 

Click on image to enter the magical world of the Key Art Awards.

Word To Your Mother

When Art Directors Dance: A Public Service Announcement

From The People Who Had Nothing To Do With The Actual Creation of These Movies And TV Shows

You Will Submit. You Will Submit.

Submissions for the glamorous and exciting 2011 Key Art Awards open this June 1. Be sure to visit keyartaward.com for details regarding eligibility, fees and media handling charges. Please make sure that you enter all information and credits completely and accurately when submitting an entry so that all contributors are properly recognized for their efforts. Ha ha. Just kidding.

Pointy Thingy Countdown

Dear Edwina,

I imagine the Key Art Awards judging will go along these lines.

Signed, Duck Phillips