ICAD Upstarts First Meeting.....

So Monday night was the first ICAD Upstarts meeting and was really great to see all the other upstarts and meet the ICAD gang. This is going to be a very intensive six weeks of hard work by all accounts. So sleeping, eating, socialising and general hanging around are out the window until at least October!

The studios and agencies who are hosting the workshops this year are:

Brand Union
Chemistry
Dcoy
Dynamo
Irish International BBDO
Language
McConnells
Publicis QMP
Red Dog
Rothco
The Hive
Zinc

ICAD Upstarts 2009

I got on the ICAD Upstarts program! I’m delighted. For those of you who don’t know ICAD is the Institute of Creative Advertising & Design and fosters, promotes and rewards creative excellence in Irish Advertising & Design. Every year they run the ICAD Upstarts Programme for people starting out in the industry. There are 6 workshops, over 6 weeks, each one in a different agency around Dublin. A new brief is given every week so that by the end each upstart will have a portfolio of work.

To get on the programme I had to answer an advertising brief and hope that my idea (below) was good enough to get through. And it was!! Can’t wait to get started……