Judges for 2008

The judges for Creative Smackdown 2008:

Bill McKendry- Hanon McKendry

Tim Hackney- Fairly Painless Advertising

Patrick Duncan

Clayton Boothe- Boothe Creative

Geoff Shirley- Highland Group

Tom Crimp- Auxiliary Advertising

Mark Bird- Bird Design

Stephan Hokanson- Mindscape Solutions

Brian Hauch- People Design

Cheryl Bell- Fairly Painless Advertising

Lesile Van Leeuwen

Mark Stegeman- Stegeman Design

Roger Hunsberger- Hunsberger Stap

Rick Devon- Grey Matter Group

Marty Lenger- GFS

Lee Gullet-  iMart

Andy Filius- Full Circle

Erin Berry Smith- Hunsberger Stap

Barb Loveland- Loveland Design

Jeff Hage- Green Frog Photo

School Entry Numbers

Grand Valley and Central Michigan are ahead in the race with 7 and 8 students respectively.  Hurry and get those registrations forms filed out as the spots continue to fill!

New Numbers!

Entry counts as of this morning:

Advertising- 11 (9 entries remaining)

Design- 11 (9 entries remaining)

Web/Motion Graphics- Closed, all 10 registrations filled

Photography- 2 (8 entries remaining)

Entries are filling up, hurry and sign up!

Updated Information!

THE WEB DESIGN CATEGORY JUST FILLED UP!!!

We’re limiting the total Smackdown enteries this year to 60 overall. There are still openings in Design, Advertising, and Photography categories. Encourage your colleagues and students to enter now, even if they haven’t finished their piece, they should register now to make sure they get in.

Each entry must send a PDF of the piece to Fank Blossom before Oct. 19th and then also bring a hard copy to the Smackdown (except for Web/motion graphics- which should bring a laptop to present it on) as before.

Posters Are Up!

Check out the posters for 2008!

Update!

The Creative Smackdown Blog is up and running! Get ready for updates on the event including entry numbers and inside information on what the judges are looking for!

Coming soon

The Creative Smackdown blog will be live soon enough…..stay tuned…..