Axis Awards Week kicks off with the Campaign Brief / CAANZ Creative Directors’ Dinner at Soul

Campaign Brief hosted the annual CB / CAANZ Creative Directors’Dinner at Soul Restaurant in Auckland last night, which was attended by NZ’s top CDs (and a good few agency chiefs), made possible with the generous sponsorship of Matt Noonan and Peter Grasse at Curious and Stacey Thomas Wah and Jonathan Hughes at Franklin Road.

Special guests included John Hunt, global creative director of TBWA\,Bill Wright and James Dawson-Hollis; creative directors at CrispinPorter + Bogusky, Boulder; and Justin Drape, creative partner at ThreeDrunk Monkeys, Sydney. The four have just finished judging the NZ AxisAwards and will be speaking at the big CAANZ Creative Function today aswell as attending Thursday night’s sell-out Axis Awards.

It was also a chance for our MC David Walden, CEO of TBWA\Whybin andCAANZ Chaiman, to welcome a few newcomers to the NZ industry, includingDylan Harrison, executive creative director of Saatchi & Saatchiand CEO Nicola Bell (the latter returning to NZ after 18 years inSydney and New York); and Nick Garrett, the new CEO of Colenso BBDO,just arrived from BMF Sydney.

Creative Directors and agency chiefs who attended: Andy Blood, TBWA\Whybin; Tony Bradbourne, Special; Paul Catmur, Barnes Catmur; Basil Christensen, Ogilvy; Steve Cochran, Colenso BBDO; Nigel Corbett, Sugar; Adam Good, Colenso BBDO; Dylan Harrison, Saatchi & Saatchi; Rob Jack, Special; Jamie Hitchcock, Josh&Jamie; Josh Lancaster, Josh&Jamie; Dave King, M&C Saatchi; Lucien Law, Shine; James Mok, DraftFCB; Jim Moser, Colenso BBDO; Paul Nagy, Clemenger BBDO, Wellington; Damon O’Leary, Ogilvy; Rick Osborne, CAANZ; Guy Roberts, TBWA\Whybin; Andrew ‘Rocky’ Stone, ????; Chris Schofield, DraftFCB; Jeremy Taine, consultant; David Walden, TBWA\Whybin; and Nick Worthington, Colenso BBDO.