CAMBRIDGE, MA - ihaveanidea, Advertising’s Intellectual Archive, proudly announces PJA Advertising + Marketing as Host of Portfolio Night 6 in Boston on May 8th 2008.
ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night is the largest simultaneous advertising portfolio review ever held in the world, featuring a uniquely designed portfolio review process in a “speed-dating” setting. The event helps students and aspiring young creatives around the world break into the ad industry and involves the top creative directors in each participating city.
ihaveanidea is pleased to have PJA Advertising + Marketing as the Portfolio Night 6 Host in Boston. Portfolio Night Hosts are integral in bringing this monumental industry event to their city. They are the local partners in charge of the colossal task of making this event happen each year and are the center of Portfolio Night in their city. Without them on the ground, spearheading Portfolio Night in their city we really couldn’t make this event happen” says Ignacio Oreamuno, president, ihaveanidea.
PJA Advertising + Marketing is an award winning creative agency based in Cambridge, MA, and a two-time BtoB Magazine Top Advertising Agency of the Year for 2006 and 2007. “We’re really delighted to be hosting this year’s Portfolio Night for Boston and being part of this global creative event. That fact that it’s global is more than just a gimmick; there’s some inherent competition between each of the locations to show how committed they are to the future of advertising.” says Chris Frame, Creative Director at PJA. “This is an opportunity to help the next generation of creatives prepare to enter the market by tapping the expertise of the many leading creative directors in the Boston market to help them polish their work.”Aaron DaSilva, Creative Director.
To date, the total roster of cities and their hosts include: DDB Worldwide, Global Agency Partner of Portfolio Night 6 and hosting in 10 cities, respectively, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Miami, New York, Toronto and Chicago. 180 hosting in Amsterdam and LA; Complot hosting in Barcelona; PJA Advertising hosting in Boston; Circulo De Creativos hosting in Buenos Aires; BOX X3G hosting in Istanbul; JWT hosting London; Sid Lee hosting in Montreal; La Societe des Communicateurs de Quebec hosting in Quebec City; Butler Shine Stern & Partners hosting in San Francisco and TAXI hosting in Vancouver. New Hosts and cities are still being added, for the current list please head to www.portfolionight.com/aroundtheworld
Portfolio Night 6 Global Partners include: DDB Worldwide, Corbis, Black Bag & VCU Brandcenter.
Students enrolled in advertising programs, recent graduates, and up-and-coming creatives will have the opportunity to spend valuable face-to-face time with their city’s most prestigious creative directors. Young creatives are encouraged to attend this event in one of the participating cities and have the opportunity to speak with three or more world-class creative directors.
Cost to participate is $35 in North America and is priced locally in other participating cities around the world. All aspiring creatives or juniors with an advertising portfolio must register online at ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 6 website.
About ihaveanidea
ihaveanidea is Advertising's Intellectual Archive. It is a project with the mission of serving the advertising industry as a centre of self-analysis, intellectual growth and communications portal. The foundations of the project are based on the idea that disseminating and sharing creative knowledge will benefit all in the industry. Hundredsof thousands of creatives from around the world visit the project each month.
ihaveanidea was founded and created by Ignacio Oreamuno, a former art director from Ogilvy& Mather. Several creatives help make the project a reality.
ihaveanidea is sponsored by the Art Directors Club, the first creative collective of its kind with global membership in advertising, design and visual communications disciplines; Black Bag, North America’s creative talent attraction consultancy – with practice areas in talent attraction consulting, creative recruitment and strategic career planning and coaching; Adweek which has the inside stories on: creativity, client/agency relationships, successful global advertising strategies; Beam.TV, a global distribution network that specializes in the immediate digital delivery of advertising across different platforms and countries; Fuel Industries, North America's leader in advergame development; The Clios, committed to the mission of celebrating and rewarding creative excellence in advertising, design & interactive honouring one of the most influential forms of communication and its impact on modern culture; &AD, a not-for-profit organization that represents the international design, advertising and creative communities. Corbis a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals worldwide, helping to bring creative work to life with the highest quality photography, footage and rights services and VCU Brandcenter, a two-year graduate program providing intensive, real-world education for future advertising leaders. VCU Brandcenter is based in Richmond, Virginia.
About PJA
PJA is proud to be named 2006 Agency of the Year and 2007 Agency of the Year Runner-Up by BtoB Magazine. PJA is a $50 million advertising and marketing agency with offices in Cambridge, Mass. and San Francisco, Calif. PJA serves a global roster of technology, life science and healthcare clients that includes: Novell, Boston Scientific, Akamai, Gene Logic, TriZetto, and Invitrogen. For more information, visit agencypja.com. For more information, visit agencypja.com.
For further information, please contact:
Mimi Martinoski
Communications Director
ihaveanidea
Tel: 416.827.0537
mimi@ihaveanidea.org
Chris Frame
Creative Director
PJA Advertising + Marketing
Tel: 617.234.7341
cframe@agencypja.com