Lidl

After a rigorous pitch process we’ve just been awarded the advertising contract for Lidl Northern Ireland and we’re really excited to be bringing a Northern Irish flavour to this hugely successful European brand. Prost!

DEL - Design Contract

Following our recent tender submission to the Department of Employment and Learning, we are delighted to have retained their graphic design services account for the next two years. We will continue to work closely with DEL in developing their communications collateral.

Chartered Institute of Marketing – UK Marketing Excellence Award 2009

The Northern Ireland Tourist Board and AV Browne have just picked up Gold for Marketing Excellence in the Public Sector for the NITB Spring Campaign 2009. The ceremony was held last night in the City of London and we’re extra-delighted given the shortlist for this UK award included the NHS, DVLA and the Environment Agency!

Pics and links of the full list of winners to follow.

You can view our work for the Tourist Board here.

Typeface featured in “Design School Confidential”

A modular typeface created by junior designer and former UU student, Katie Brown, has been featured in “Design School Confidential.”

The compilation, co-written by NY Times Art Director and design commentator, Steven Heller, is a collection of 50 class projects from international design schools.

Lesley-Ann is off to South Africa

Lesley-Ann is now off to South Africa for the next couple of weeks. She is heading to Cape Town to work in the Townships as part of the Niall Mellon Township Trust Building Blitz. A big thanks to everyone who has made a donation over the last couple of months. When she gets back she will be full of top tips on how to roof a house!

Go Pink!

With October being Breast Cancer Awareness month the staff at AV Browne felt the need to get involved and support this worthwhile cause.

Now us being us, we are going the whole hog and are devoting the week commencing 26th October to AV Browne ‘Go Pink Week!’ Starting on Monday there will be lots of ways for everyone to get involved and have a little fun (with a pink theme of course).

To kick it off Monday will be Go Pink day. Come in and see the AV Browners dressed in pink – yes the boys too. Tuesday is our ‘Big Pink Pub Quiz.’ There will also be a raffle with some rather fantastic prizes. If you have a sweet tooth then Wednesday is your day. Swing by our office and treat yourself to one of the many cupcakes that we will be selling (Pink icing of course). Thursday is all about pampering. For one day only there will be a nail salon set up in our offices. For only £5 you can get yourself some lovely (pink) digits. To finish up the week on Friday we are having a pink Cava reception. This is just to say a big thank you to everyone and to reveal the final amount raised.

Go on – get your pink on!

BT Experiment gets a Fresh Award

Our work for BT Experiment collected top prize in the ‘Freshest Big Idea’ category at the Fresh Awards in Manchester last night. Congratulations to everyone involved. You can see the full list of nominations and winners here.

http://www.btexperiment.com

Belfast Waterfront & Ulster Hall

AV Browne have been awarded the contract for the advertising, design & promotion of both the Belfast Waterfront Hall and the newly reopened Ulster Hall. 

We are delighted to be working with Belfast City Council on the promotion of these iconic Belfast concert and conference venues.

Double success for AV Browne

AV Browne picked up two awards at the Irish News Workplace and Employment Awards in the Ramada last night. We collected both awards in the Best Creative Recruitment Advertisement Category. The PSNI ‘Dilemmas’ Recruitment Campaign won the category and our work for Army was highly commended.

You can see the full list of all the winners here.

Zoo wins a “Chip”

Our ambient campaign for Belfast Zoo picked up a “Chip” at the Chipshop Awards in London last night.
The campaign was awarded top prize in the category for  ”Best ad that didn’t run”.

A full list of the Chipshop’s quirky categories and all winners can be viewed here. 
http://www.chipshopawards.com/nominations/

Student Workshops kick off

Term-time may be coming to an end for most students, but for nearly 40 students participating in the first ever PANI & UU workshops the celebrations will have to wait a few weeks.

The PANI workshops have been set up to give up and coming talent an insight into what life is like working in a creative agency. Six of Northern Ireland’s leading agencies have signed up to help mentor the students through a creative brief set by PANI. Over the next 3-4 weeks the students will be required to come up with an advertising campaign to raise awareness of why wearing a helmet when skiing or snowboarding could save your life. At the beginning of June, the students will have to ‘pitch’ their idea to an independent panel of judges and the winners will be announced later that month. There will be an exhibition of all the work at an award ceremony on the 9th June at UU Belfast.

The AV Browne student team is:
Sara Madden, Lauren Donnelly, Tierna Magee, John Wynne and Ashleigh Grant.

AV Browne picks up Anti Litter Campaign

After a two-stage process, Belfast City Council  has just awarded us the contract for their Anti Litter Campaigns. We’ll begin work from next month and are delighted to be working with the Council on keeping the City clean.

Jameson wins bronze

Big smiles all round as our popcorn campaign for Jameson picked up a bronze award for ‘Best use of Creative Media’ at The Drum’s Rose Awards in Manchester on Thursday night. Winners from all categories can be viewed here.

Also a huge thanks to IAS, Dentsu and Love for a great night at table 26. Pics will be online soon.

Chip Shop Awards 2009

We’ve just heard today that two of our submissions to this years Chip Shop Awards have been shortlisted for an award. Our Stoli dolls and our ambient campaign for Belfast Zoo have both been selected. This years awards will be hosted at Fabric in London on 11 June 2009. For more info on the Chip Shop Awards and a full list of nominations, click here.

Rose Awards 2009

Our little Stoli dolls and our popcorn filled Jameson adshels have both been shortlisted at this years Rose Advertising Awards. The Stoli dolls are nominated for best use of typography and the popcorn adshel is nominated for best use of creative media. The full list of nominations can be viewed here.

The awards ceremony will be held in Manchester at the Hilton Hotel on the 30 April. Fingers crossed.

Northern Ireland Tourist Board - Design Contract

We’ve just been awarded the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) contract for design and production for corporate communications, promotional and marketing materials, beginning 18 March 2009.

This win has come after a long running process with very stiff competition from agencies on this island and further afield, and we are delighted to be working with NITB in bringing the new brand for Northern Ireland tourism to life.

BT Black wins again

Our campaign for BT Black picked up another award at the Digital Media Awards last week. We beat off stiff competition to win the gong for ‘Best in Design’.

The judges’ highlighted how “the strategy, targeting, content and subtle brand association of the ambitious project really connected with the target market in a unique way”.

Click here to view the BT Black website.

Scuba Steve

Friday the 30th January was the annual SOS RNLI Awareness Day. In recognition of the fact that the RNLI is our charity of the year we decided to have a little go at making our Creative Director Lifeboat Crew material - a tough ask at the best of times. We borrowed a full in-shore Lifeboat Crew kit and, in the sweltering heat of our studio, our resident ‘hero’ attempted to squirm his way into it. Nice.

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PANI 2009

Windsor Arnold, Operations Director of the AV Browne Group, has been re-elected to the PANI (Publicity Association of Northern Ireland) board for the 2009/10 season. The elections were held at Ten Square on January 29th and the (friendly) competition was fierce.

For the past year, Windsor and UUJ have been working closely for PANI to initiate exciting new seminar and workshop series linking promising student teams from CAM and VisCom with successful agencies in Northern Ireland. The students will hear from industry leaders about their specific markets, current and future trends and learn about essential skills agencies hope to see in graduating students.  They will then be mentored by each agency over the space of a month and assigned to work on a campaign briefed in by PANI.

Keep an eye out in Belfast Telegraphs business section over the coming months for regular updates on the seminars and workshops.

For further details and other PANI events, click on: www.panionline.com

Ulster Museum pitch

Our first pitch of 2009 sees us win the design collateral work for The Ulster Museum, beating 5 other agencies. The project requires us to develop a suite of literature that will showcase the diversity of the Ulster Museum’s collections, to include maps, education booklets, media folders and gallery guides. 

The new look Ulster Museum will re-open in June 2009.