BEATTIE, JUDEE AND AYSON TO JUDGE AXIS AWARDS – VECTOR ARENA, MARCH 27 2009

The 29th Axis awards, to be held Friday 27th March, promises to be a corker, according to AXIS chairman, Toby Talbot, ECD of DDB.

Says Talbot: “Once again, we will stay with the same judging process that was introduced last year. It was  universally accepted by the industry. Four local panels (advertising, tv craft, direct and digital) will choose the finalists and then three world class international judges will fly down for Axis week to choose the metal and best of show. And also to give a special talk to the industry. We had a tough act to follow after Tractor and Seb Royce came  last year.

“So it is with some relief I can announce that we have managed to get advertising legend Trevor Beattie from Beattie, Bungay, McGuiness London (pictured with Nelson Mandela), the queen of Thai advertising, Judee (Jureeporn Thaidumrong) from JEH Limited in Bangkok and to add a little local perspective, kiwi director Steve Ayson from The Sweet Shop, now full time resident of LA (poor bloke).

“These people are the best of the best and we should all be pretty stoked that they are coming. I know I am.

“We have a new venue, the Vector Arena and we have Will Anderson, host of the Gruen Transfer, joining us from Melbourne to MC the evening.”

Talbot says Axis night has been brought forward to end of March so that agencies can use it as a proper form guide for Cannes. Any questions please contact Desiree Doyle at CAANZ.