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We’d Like To Thank All The Little People Who Made This Possible, But We Can't Remember Your Names

Kudos to Ignition for listing the art director and the finisher on their Key Art Award entries. Granted, not on all their entries, but at least some of them. The rest of you job-creators really ought to step up for your creative staff.

Today The Minutes Seem Like Hours, The Hours Go So Slowly, And Still The Sky Is Light. Oh Moon, Grow Bright, And Make This Endless Day Endless Night!

It Takes A Village

TCM Film Festival Print Campaign Finalist

Project: TCM Film Festival 2012 Bus Wrap

Entrant Company: Turner Entertainment Networks, Atlanta

CREDITS:

Agency: One Trick Pony, Hammonton, NJ

CMO, TEN Marketing: Jeff Gregor

SVP, TEN Marketing: Tricia Melton

VP, TEN Marketing: Christine Drayer

Director, TEN Marketing: Nicole Hall

Manager, TEN Marketing: Rachel Mountain

Coordinator, TEN Marketing: Kaylie Damen

Co-Founder: Rob Reed

Co-Founder: Keith Pizer

Account Executive:Jim Justice

Account Executive: Jamie Herman

Key Art Awards In Denial That The Key Art Awards Is A Competition

Dear Edwina,

Just wondering your thoughts on the new format (I guess last year also) for the Key Art Awards. I understand the entire award event has turned sour over the years, but at least it remained, somewhat, the "Oscars for Movie Poster design" with a clear cut winner in each category whether people agreed or not.

Now "…the entries are evaluated and awarded based upon their own individual merits in the eyes of the jurors, so there can be 0 or more Gold, 0 or more Silver, etc. The entries do not compete "against" each other anymore as it's not a "best of" format."

Every single person I know in this industry finds this annoying and kind of ridiculous. 

Ridiculous? Yes. But we can’t have winners without losers, now can we? And how can we have a good time if we’ve spent $199 a seat only to be surrounded by a bunch of washouts?

The truth is the Key Art Awards is reluctant to embrace the zero-sum properties inherent in crowd-pleasing contests.

Unless you declare that the winner is based on opening weekend results, the judging can only be qualitative, and ultimately that makes it a popularity contest.

And, if you’re like us, you're fine with that. It's gratifying to know your work is appreciated by your peer group - even if your peer group is a bunch of competitive, batshit crazy, whiny bastards.

You May Already Be A Loser!

Click the link below to see the complete list of the

2012 Key Art Awards Print finalists

The list of Bronze winners will be announced October 8th and then the Silver announced on October 10th and then the remaining winners will be revealed on October 17th at the ArcLight!

It’s kind of like a rolling blackout, only the power doesn’t shut down and so you have no excuse to stop working and go home.

Lawyer Up, People - Key Art Judging Starts Today At Culver Studios

There's Nothing Worse Than A Big Fat Typo In The Headline

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For Those Of You Who’ve Never Met A Deadline You Didn’t Like

Today is the second of three deadlines for the Key Art Awards. Please bear in mind the entry fee goes up with each deadline.*

* Campaign prices are determined by multiplying the campaign pricing fee in the respective medium by the number of entries in the campaign. (e.g.: Print Campaign - 2 entries: $250 until July 13th, $270 until July 27th, $290 until August 10th;  A/V Campaign - 3 entries (plus 3 media handling charges): $450 until July 13th, $480 until July 27th, $510 until August 10th)

Our Long Nightmare Is Over: The Key Art Awards Renews Its Original Commitment To Celebrate Rewarding Creative Excellence

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Another Cosmic Coincidence? We Don’t Think So!

Tuesday, June 5, 2012: Entries open for the 2012 Key Art Awards. Tuesday, June 5, 2012: The transit of Venus across the sun.

The "coincidences" continue to pile up: note the transit of Venus vis-à-vis the transit bus wrap for The Hangover 2.

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