Creative Circus students earned top honors at the ANDYs, a worldwide advertising competition sponsored by the Advertising Club of New York, taking a gold and the top prize, the $5,000 Glenn C. Smith Scholarship. Student Art Director Al Tomizawa and Copywriter Christian Durrett won with a campaign created for Borders Books. One ad features a view from atop a commode, the only visible reading materials are the ingredients on the back of a shampoo bottle. Each ad features small print under a Borders logo that reads “BRING A BOOK.”

Another Circus student won scholarship money, this one from the Atlanta chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Ashley Hofmann was selected to receive one of three $1,000 educational scholarships. Hofmann was honored at the AIGA’s “Big Night” event held on May 9 along with student peer Toni Jordan, who was elected as AIGA “Student Chair.”

Three more Circus students were honored with 3 of 5 minority Art Direction internships sponsored by the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA). Antoine Harris will intern with Saatchi and Saatchi in New York, Marco Worsham will intern with Grey Advertising, also in New York, and Andrew Robinson will intern with Leo Burnett in Chicago.

More competition kudos came via The One Show College Competition. Two creative teams from the Circus were selected as finalists –the creative team of Stephanie Simpson, Art Director, and Larry Johnson, Copywriter, along with the team of Kristi Pagoulatos and Jessica Foster, Art Directors, and Jean Weisman, Copywriter.

Work by Creative Circus students, Aimee Lehto, Copywriter, and Mike Bokman will be presented in the 2002 British Design & Art Direction Student Awards Annual. As winners, the students are in the running for scholarships and paid internships with a WPP agency. WPP is a global communications services company comprised of such agencies as Ogilvy, Rainey Kelley Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, JWT and Landor Associates.