Oz Magazine
Contributors
In this Issue...
The author of the Splash, Flash and Grind story,Lee Drew, is a very quiet guy.
Kevin McKelvey is a freelance copywriter in Atlanta. When he's not writing for Oz, K evin writes ads for local agencies and clients through his own company, Haverhill Group. E-mail kevin@haverhillgroup.com.
A native of Indiana and a graduate of Purdue University and Emory University Law School, Jon Lee Andersen, Esq. has been a practicing attorney in Atlanta for over 15 years. He focuses his practice in the advertising, marketing, promotion and intellectual property fields. His clients include advertising agencies, marketing firms, traditional retail and wholesale businesses, e-commerce companies and freelance professionals. A regular lecturer at The Portfolio Center and The Creative Circus, Andersen's work includes advice and assistance in sweepstakes, contests, promotions, unfair trade practice, labeling, testimonials and endorsements, copyright, trademark and licensing matters. Writer Dianna Edwards swears she's going to get us a new headshot one of these days, but we'll believe it when we see it. She's been so busy promoting her husband Eric Haney's book ("Inside Delta Force") and
helping with the relaunch of a fancy pants national design magazine ("STEP inside design"), that we haven't seen hide nor hair of her this whole year. This first Paragon feature on her old friend Hank Richardson was too good to resist, though, so we've finally got her back in the Oz corral where she belongs. World honored Michael Wolff judged this issue's cover competition.
The London native opened Wolff Olins in Camden Town in 1964, working with Audi, Apple (the Beatles, not computers), British Airport Authorities, the city of Paris, and Volkswagen. Wolff has been President of both the Designers and Art Directors Association (D&AD) and the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD). With his own consultancy company, as Chairman of the Addison Group, and as an independent Creative Director he has worked with the W H Smith Group, numerous international dignitaries, Newell & Sorrell, the UK's Labour Party, and Citigroup. Wolff was the mind behind such visible campaigns as the 'green' BP gas stations that now dot the world. Our thanks for Michael's sense and sensibilities. This issue's cover competition winner, Lee Dayvault, is $500 richer and describes himself this way: I love photography. It's been my passion since I was 10. I tried to do that for a career for awhile but ended up starving most of the time. I went into art direction and love that almost as much , and have eaten better. I went to RIT in Rochester N.Y., then to Creative Circus. I worked at Ammirati in N.Y. and now BBDO Atlanta. My philosophy: Always have fun, and make sure you balance your career with life.