MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — If you haven’t visited the creative-advertising hamlet of Minneapolis in recent years, you might not recognize it.
The powerhouses Fallon, Martin Williams, Campbell Mithun and Carmichael Lynch are still there, but some are dramatically smaller. Boutiques run by their former executives now work on brands such as Apple, Nordstrom, General Mills and Target. The city’s largest agency works primarily outside of traditional media, skipping TV altogether. And a handful of younger shops with names such as Periscope and Olson that combine digital specialties with quirky offerings in design, packaging and even “social anthropology” are on the verge of lapping long-established, holding-company-backed agency brands in revenue.
Congratulations to our friends at Barrie D’Rozario and Murphy for taking home a total of five awards at the 2009 CLIO Awards. Pixel Farm is proud to have been a part of United Airlines “Sea Orchestra” spot, which was awarded a silver CLIO for animation and a bronze CLIO for Music Adaptation.
Advertising Agency: Barrie D’Rozario Murphy, Minneapolis
Sound Design Company: Pixel Farm, Minneapolis
Executive Creative Director: Stuart D’Rozario, Bob Barrie
Art Director: James Zucco
Director: Shy the Sun
Sound Designer: Ken Chastain
Music Company: Trivers & Myers, El Segundo
Animation Company: DUCK Studios, Los Angeles
Agency Producer: Holly Stone, Jack Steinmann
Copywriter: Phil Calvit
Executive Producer: Mark Medernach
Producer: Nina Pfeiffer
Arranger: Trivers & Myers
The CLIO Awards is one of the world’s most recognized awards competition for advertising, design and interactive. Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, the CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. To this day, CLIO’s iconic statue is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry’s creative accomplishments. The CLIO Awards are produced by Nielsen Business Media, a part of The Nielsen Company, a global information and media company.