24 Hours: UEPS to present annual awards tonight; [d]TALKSR: GRUPA at HDD; iProspect is Tele2’s new digital media agency; ULUPUH Awards

By: Adnan Arnautlija

UEPS CREATIVITY IN COMMUNICATION AWARDS CEREMONY WILL BE HELD TONIGHT

The Serbian Marketing Communications Association will be awarding the best in the profession at the ceremony marking UEPS day, the oldest national association. The ceremony will be held in Atelje 212 at 19:00 hours. The slogan of this years festive ceremony is “The creativity of Communication”.

This year the Association has redefined the categories based upon the experience of previous competitions and suggestions by the associates and adapted them to current trends and the needs of creatives. There are less categories this year. There 17 categories and subcategories, and the awards will go to organizations, companies, institutions, media and agencies for the best and most creative solutions over the year.

In addition to these awards there will be special awards for the best copy, the best art direction, direction and score. the best agency and advertiser of the year will be announced based on their overall success in the competition.

The Grand Prix will be awarded to the best of the best.

HDD TONIGHT: [D]RAZGOVOR: GRUPA

The last [d]RAZGOVOR of the year will be held tonight at 19:00 hours, in HDD gallery,  Zagreb. The guests will be  Filip Despot, Ivana Pavić and Tihana Taraba of the designer studio GRUPA, and Marko Pavlovic who participated in creating their latest product BALUN. This public debate was organised to mark the Grupa – An Anatomy of Design: Balun exhibition which opened last week. This is a rare chance to meet GRUPA and Marko Pavlovic in person and hear their stories and modus operandi and get a better insight as to what the exhibition represents – a long and laborious process of creating a new designer product.

The debate moderator is  Marko Golub.

IPROSPECT IS A NEW TELE2 AGENCY FOR DIGITAL MEDIA BUYING SERVICE

Tele 2 Hrvatska has chosen the digital agency iProspect after bidding process.

The iProspect strategic approach based on in depth consumer knowledge and data based marketing were the key elements in forming this partnership.

Sonja Miočić, Communications Director of Tele2 Hrvatska: “Tele2 follow trends in its core business as well as in communication with our customers. The customer experience is very important to us and we base our products upon it.  The digital business is not a new trend but a necessity and that is why we needed a partner who together with our team will ensure the best possible service. We believe that with iProspect our ambitious goals will be achieved in the near future.”

iProspect is a part  Dentsu Aegis Network  which has had a presence in Croatia since 2015.

ULUPUH HAVE GIVEN OUT ITS ANNUAL AWARDS

On the occasion of its 67th anniversary,  ULUPUH (the Croatian Association of Applied Artists)under the auspices of Zagreb City Assembly and Andrija Mikulic,dr. sc., the Assembly President awarded annual prizes for 2017.

ULUPUH award for life’s work went to Davor Grunwald, an industrial designer, the best exhibition project award went to The International Exhibition of Graphic Design and Visual Communications Zgraf 12 themed around The Social Reruns, the award for the best publishing project went to the book ULUPUH fashion history – The Art of Fashion, author: Ana Lendvaj, editors:Dorotea Jendrić i Davor Klarić,  book design:Bachrach&Krištofić. The prize for the best young artist was awarded to Ivan Capan, an architect and architectural and urban scale model designer.