31 October 2011  Archive Creative Club Debuts with Big Promise      History was made on October 29, 2011 as creative minds gathered in Lagos for the first edition of Archive Creative Club. They were joined online by international industry leaders. Gideon Amichay Creative Chairman at Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Tel Aviv and Tolga Büyükdoganay Creative Director at Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann Vienna Austria. Tolga is positioned number 2 worldwide in the Lürzer's Archive ranking. Other speakers at the event were Lanre Adisa, Managing Director Noah’s Ark Lagos and Uzoma Okoye Managing Director, Etuodi Communications as well as Colin Morris, Executive Creative Director at Lowe Lintas, Lagos. Gideon Amichay spoke about the “Blue and Me” ad from the Leo Burnett Madrid, the Stihl ad from Scholz and Friends Berlin, The Pet Odour eliminator from Grey Paris, the CNN ad from DDB & Co. Istanbul and many others. He also described Lürzer’s Archive magazine as his advertising bible.  Tolga Büyükdoganay thought the Nokia N8 90 seconds “Gulp” ad from Wieden & Kennedy was great. He also spoke about the Canal+ “Bear” ad, Dank! Second hand furniture ad, as well as the Stihl and Tupperware ads. Lanre Adisa reviewed several TV ads in the volume, while Uzo Okoye looked at the edition’s selection of websites. The participants thanked Chini Productions for organizing the event and requested that it should be retained as a regular meeting for creative minds.  Chini Productions plans to establish the Archive Creative Club in the cities across Africa where it has the responsibility of distributing the magazine. According to the Managing Director of Chini Productions, Nnamdi Ndu, “this way we will ensure that the world hears the African story as told by Africans themselves”. Go to Top

	28 September 2011 Archive Creative Club Holds on October 29 To further enhance the learning and inspirational benefits derived from Lürzer’s Archive magazine, Chini Productions, the Africa distributor for Lürzer’s Archive will host the advertising creative community in Lagos to a live review session on Saturday, 29th of October 2011 at 18 Esomo Close, off Toyin Street, Ikeja. During the event, top international creative directors will join their local counterparts via the internet on large screens to review the latest edition of the magazine and share with the participants why they think a particular ad or website is great.  The beauty of the programme is that some of the international creative directors may actually be presenting their own work. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask them questions that will help them in creating their own international quality work. The programme is expected to help participants infuse international standards and best practices into their work processes. Go to Top

	26 September 2011 Chini Productions Adds More Spice to the Loeries with Archive Lürzer’s Archive was represented at the just concluded 33rd Loeries Awards in Cape Town, South Africa by Chini Productions, the Africa distributor for the magazine. The event opened on the first day with delegates registering at the Big Daddy Hotel. Each delegate received a free copy of Lürzer’s Archive magazine to complete their inspiration diet for the weekend. The colourful awards ceremony in the evening of the second day was anchored by star presenters from SABC. On the third night the Hollywood star, David Hasslehoff stole the stage and enchanted the audience.  In the words of Mr. Nnamdi Ndu, Managing Director of Chini Productions, “This year’s Loerie Awards reinforces our conviction that African creativity is coming  of age and we look forward to more and more inspiring ads from Africa and hope that many more will make it into each edition of Lürzer’s Archive TV, Ads and Posters Worldwide. This is in line with our mission of promoting creativity in our region”. Go to Top

	14 September 2011 Registration for 2nd Miami Ad School Scholarship Competition for Nigeria Now Open               Scholarship Winner, Akorede Zakariya with Colin Morris, Competition Jury President                                                  Registration is now open for the 2nd Miami Ad School scholarship competition for Nigerian creatives. The winner of the competition will receive a full tuition scholarship for a two-year study in any of the Miami Ad School campuses of his choice. The third, second and first runners up will receive halve tuition scholarships also for a two-year study in any of the Miami Ad School campuses of their choice including Miami, San Francisco, Hamburg, Minneapolis, Istanbul and Madrid. The competition was held for the first time in March 2011 and was won by Akorede Zakariya of Noah’s Ark Communications, who is scheduled to resume classes in the Miami campus in October 2011. Winners can choose to study for a diploma in other of these creative areas: Copywriting, Art Direction, Digital Design, Digital Photography and Video. Scholarship Winner, Akorede Zakariya with Nnamdi Ndu Managing Director Chini Productions There is no age limit for application; however, applicants should note that the programme requires them to become full time students for two consecutive years. Participation cost for the competition is N5, 000 on acceptance of the registration. No prior certificate will provide an advantage. Details of qualification collected in the questionnaire are just for documentation purposes. Only those with great creative potentials will be considered. Candidates will be required to tackle a brief which they will be submitted online. A creative jury will screen all entries and invite short listed candidates to work on another brief on site. The final winners will then be selected. You can register by completing the online questionnaire here  Miami Ad School has been adjudged the best ad school in the world by several authorities including the Gunn’s Report and is represented in Nigeria by Chini Productions. For more details please call 07040501425, 01-6283646 or send email to mas@chinioline.com or visit Chini Productions at 18 Esomo Close, off Toyin Street, Ikeja, Lagos. Go to Top

	12 September 2011 3 Industry Leaders Honored at Cannes Lions Rewind in Lagos The Registrar and CEO of the Advertising Practitioner’s Council of Nigeria, Alhaji Garba Kankarofi, the managing director DDB Lagos as well as the managing director MediaReach OMD were recognized during the 2011 edition of the Cannes Lions Rewind which took place in Lagos on the 8th of September for their contribution to the development of future creative leaders in the industry using the platform of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The CEO of APCON was honored for the council’s role in organizing the selection of students from tertiary institutions for the Roger Hatchuel Academy and sponsoring the winner to the Festival. The managing director of DDB was recognized for his role in training young creatives, ensuring that his agency produces a team annually to represent Nigeria in youth competitions in Cannes. DDB is also the only agency that has produced a Young Lions Cyber team to represent Nigeria in Cannes. The Managing Director of MediaReach OMD was commended for his company’s role in training young professionals, running an in-house academy and ensuring that the best of the academy compete to represent Nigeria in Cannes annually in the Young Lions Media Competition category. In a personal letter written to the awardees recently, the Cannes Lions chairman, Terry Savage said “I offer this letter in recognition of the work you have done and the commitment you have shown in lifting the profile of creativity in your country specifically by working with Chini Productions in advancing the profile of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in Nigeria.”  “It is efforts such as yours that will eventually see the level of creative excellence in your country rise and of course this will result in someone standing on stage from your country picking up its first ever Lion.” The event was attended by a large number of advertising professionals from across the industry. Advertising agencies whose representatives were present include Capital Media, DDB Lagos, EXP Marketing, Insight Communications, Lowe Lintas, MediaReach OMD, Noah’s Ark, Novelpotta,141 Worldwide, PrimaGarnet, Rosabel Leo Burnett, SO&U Saatchi & Saatchi, STB McCann, TBWA, Verdant Zeal and many more. In his opening speech at the event, the Cannes Lions representative in Nigeria, Mr. Nnamdi Ndu, stressed the importance of the youth events in the Cannes Lions programme for Nigeria. He explained that this was the strategy to ensure that Nigeria produced world-class award winners. Guests at the event were taken through video highlights of the 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity which included clips from jury sessions, seminars, workshops, youth events, award ceremonies, galas and many other activities that took place during the Festival week such as beach soccer and networking. The excited audience got a taste of the Cannes seminars as they watched segments taken from the Coca-Cola seminar, the Diageo seminar and the Ogilvy & Mather seminar. They also got a chance to watch several of the highly entertaining and award winning ads from the festival. Go to Top

	14 March 2011 AWARDS NIGHT Congratulations to all the winners at the Cannes Lions Nigeria Awards Night at Lagos Sheraton Hotel on Saturday 12 March. Winners Roger Hatchuel Academy Selection Quiz - Oresanya Jesudemilade Miracle, Mass Communication Department, University Of Lagos. Miami Ad School Scholarship Competition - Akorede Zakariya, Noah's Ark Young Clients Competition - Omagbemi Taiwo & Adenle Tope, Grand Oak Limited Young Lions Media Competition - Isioma Okeleke& Olabode Fashola, mediaReach OMD Young Lions Film Competition - Taiwo Badejo & Kehinde Badejo, Badex Interactive Solutions. Event details and pictures coming soon... MIAMI AD SCHOOL WORKSHOP IN LAGOS Registration is now open for the Miami Ad School workshop taking place in Lagos and anchored from Berlin campus of the Miami Ad School. For more details and to download registration form click here or call 07040501425 for assistance. Go to Top

	1 March 2011 Miami Ad School Programme Coming to Lagos Plans are currently being fine-tuned for Chini Productions to host the first in a series of workshops to be held in Lagos in collaboration with the Miami Ad School. The workshop, “How to Create Great Campaigns – A taste of Miami Ad School” will be made up of three courses Copywriting, Concepting and Integrated Concepting and there will be 3 sessions every week for 10 weeks, starting from the last week of April, 2011. Ron Seichrist, Global Director, Miami Ad School, said "If it turns out Nigeria has as many talented creative young people as they have young creative football stars, this video conference program we have with Lagos will be very interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing some superstars come out of this." The programme is designed to hold in the evenings to enable participants conclude office work before attending. Participants are expected to be agency creatives, aspiring creatives, other agency staff as well as brand and communication managers. The programme will be facilitated by high profile creatives and will be anchored from the Berlin campus of the Miami Ad School with audiovisual online real-time link to the classroom in Lagos, making it possible for students and teachers to interact and exchange work for review and discussion at real time. The choice of the Berlin campus is apt as Berlin and Lagos share similar time zones. Niklas Frings-Rupps, Managing Director Miami Ad School Europe and D&AD 2010 Best Ad Tutor in the World said ”Due to experience we know the value of video conference classes and see this program with Lagos as a fantastic way to live the globalization others always just speak about. We are very much looking forward to exchange and work with the fresh and young talent from Nigeria.” The Miami Ad School also known as the school of pop culture engineering has its headquarters in Miami, Florida with campuses in Berlin, Hamburg, Istanbul, Madrid, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Sao Paulo. The Miami Ad School has been rated “Best Ad Schools in the World” by Gunn’s Report. Speaking on the programme, the Miami Ad School representative and Managing Director of Chini Productions, Nnamdi Ndu, stated that this is the “revolution that Nigeria has been waiting for to take its rightful place in the world as a centre of world-class advertising”. Registration for the programme will commence on 15 March, 2011. Go to Top

	24 January 2011 Registration Opens for Miami Ad School Scholarship Competition  Registration is now open for scholarship competition to the Miami Ad School, the most awarded advertising school in the world and according to Gunn’s Report, “the best advertising schools in the world”. This call for registration is a follow up on the earlier announcement of the offer of a full tuition scholarship and 10 half tuition scholarships to Nigerians by Miami Ad School on the appointment of a representative in Nigeria in the name of Mr. Nnamdi Ndu, who is the Managing Director of Chini Productions and also the Cannes Lions Representative in Nigeria. The scholarships are for study at any of the Miami Ad School full time campuses in Miami, Madrid, San Francisco, Minneapolis or Hamburg. Those eligible to apply for the scholarship are young advertising creatives who want to improve their skills, talented advertising professionals who want to move from other departments to the creative department as well as graduates of tertiary institutions in any discipline who believe they have the talent and passion to succeed in the creative communication industry. Registrations are to be made online at http://www.chinionline.com/programmes.html Approved registrants, will be required to pay a participation fee of N5, 000. The test questions will be posted on the website and forwarded to the email addresses of participants by 12:01am of Monday, February 28, 2011. Participants will be invited in person for interview on March 5, 2011. The competition will be judged by the creative jury of the Nigeria Young Lions Competition, whose president is Mr. Colin Morris, the executive creative director of LTC/JWT and winners will be announced at the Awards Night on March 12 at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel along with the winners of Roger Hatchuel Competition, Young Lions Competition and Young Clients Competition. Registration will close on February 24, 2011. Participants who do not win any of the scholarships, but display sufficient talent to work in the creative communication industry will be counseled on how to pursue the admission on their own if they have the means or how to realize their dreams locally. Go to Top

	14 January 2011 Jury Presidents Announced for 2011 Nigeria Young Lions Competition  Chini Productions, the Cannes Lions representatives in Nigeria and organisers of the Young Lions Competition and the Young Clients Competition have announced jury presidents for the various categories of the competitions. The jury for the Young Lions Media Competition will be headed by Mr. Tolu Ogunkoya, who is the managing director of mediaReach OMD, while Mr. Fatai Odesile, head of marketing at Grand Oak Limited, has been named as the jury president for the Young Clients Competition. The jury for the creative categories which include the Young Lions Cyber Competition, the Young Lions Film Competition and the Young Lions Print Competition will be overseen by Mr. Colin Morris, executive creative director at LTC/JWT. The creative jury will also have the additional task of selecting winners for the 11 scholarships recently offered to Nigeria by the Miami Ad School. Each of the presidents will work with a team of professionals from across the industry that will soon be announced. Speaking on the choice of jury presidents, the Cannes Lions representative in Nigeria, Mr. Nnamdi Ndu said “these are men who have earned the respect of the industry and have shown great support and commitment to our vision in raising industry standards. We will rely on their leadership to deliver top-notch, bias free competitions that the industry will be proud of.” All the competitions, except the scholarship competition, are open to teams of 2 professionals from the relevant arm of the industry and the national winners will represent Nigeria in the global finals of the competitions at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity from 19 to 25 June, 2011 in France. Entry for the Young Lions and Young Clients competitions will require employer endorsement. Event details are available from www.canneslions-ng.com. ADVAN members can also contact the association’s office for forms and details. The winners of all the competitions including the Roger Hatchuel Academy selection competition that will be moderated by the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON, will be announced at the Awards Night on the 12th of March, 2011. Go to Top

	13 January 2011 Miami Ad School Offers 11 Scholarships to Nigeria Appoints Representative Miami Ad School has announced the offer of one full tuition scholarship and 10 half tuition scholarships to deserving students of Nigerian origin at any of their full time schools in Miami, Madrid, San Francisco, Minneapolis or Hamburg. This offer followed the appointment of Mr. Nnamdi Ndu as the schools representative in Nigeria. Mr. Ndu, who is the Managing Director of Chini Productions, also wears another cap as the Cannes Lions Representative in Nigeria. According to Mr. Ndu, plans are already in place to hold a competition in March to select beneficiaries of the scholarships. The winners will be announced on the 12th of March at an Awards Night alongside winners from other competitions organized by Chini, which include, the Roger Hatchuel Academy selection competition, the Young Lions Competition in Film, Media, Cyber and Print categories as well as the Young Clients Competition. In the letter of appointment, the Global Director of Miami Ad School, Mr. Ron Seichrist, stated that Mr. Ndu will facilitate the school’s directives in educational workshops and student scholarship competitions and also counsel prospective Nigerian students for any Miami Ad School educational program, including students who wish to apply to a Miami Ad School full time school. Speaking on the appointment, Mr. Ndu said ”the new relationship with Miami Ad School will strengthen our three pronged mission of Training, Equipping and Celebrating creatives and marketing communication professionals in general. Before now we’ve been holding high profile workshops, but this takes it further to a whole new level and is really the first step towards having a full-fledged Miami Ad School campus in Nigeria. We will also continue to provide inspiring books and other resources that will help the professional stay at the cutting edge of the industry through our partnership with Lürzer’s Archive and of course with training and equipping, we know that excellence is bound to follow, so we’re desperately looking forward to celebrate these successes at Cannes Lions and Dubai Lynx.” The Miami Ad School, also known as the School of Pop Culture Engineering has campuses in Miami, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Hamburg, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Istanbul and Madrid. It is the most awarded ad school in the world and for the past four years, the Gunn Report, the top advertising ranking authority globally, has named the Miami Ad School “the best advertising schools in the world” based on the quality of the awards received by the school and their students. Go to Top

	4 January 2011 Registration Now Open For Cannes Academy 2011 Registration is now on till February 18 for 2011 Cannes Academy also known as the Roger Hatchuel Academy, a one-week intensive training programme for international students held during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France. Typically, there are about thirty students from different countries every year in a Roger Hatchuel Academy class. Each student has to be specially selected in his or her country by their national Cannes Lions Representative. Already, the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) has offered, for the second year to provide financial assistance for the winner of the Nigeria qualifying contest to attend the Roger Hatchuel Academy in France. This will include flight ticket, hotel accommodation and $500 pocket money. Since 2008, APCON has been collaborating with Chini Productions, organizers of the event and Cannes Lions representatives in Nigeria to moderate the contest and ensure unbiased judgment. Several other organizations have also indicated their interest in participating in the programme. On the global scale the Roger Hatchuel Academy is sponsored by DraftFCB. In 2010, the advertising network offered 14 internship positions in their various offices around the world to the Roger Hatchuel Academy participants in Cannes. The Nigeria programme usually includes sessions where students are taught by senior industry figures. This is done to ensure that everybody benefits from the programme even if they do not win the competition that takes them to France. This year, plans are also on the way to use the programme as a selection platform for Lynx Academy, which is a regional version of the Roger Hatchuel Academy, designed for students from the Middle East, North Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. Traditionally, the Roger Hatchuel Academy affords participants the opportunity of meeting the global giants of the profession. Previous editions have witnessed the attendance of the likes of Michael Conrad, president of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and Alex Bogusky, co-chairman of Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Clive Challis, head of the advertising course at Central Saint Martins in London functions as the tutor for the Academy. Speaking on the importance of the Academy, Mr. Nnamdi Ndu, Cannes Lions Representative in Nigeria says “it is the breeding place of the industry heroes of tomorrow and there’s no other programme in the world that I know of that surpasses the Roger Hatchuel Academy in assuring young aspiring communications professionals that they have chosen the best career in the world.” Go to Top