Here are the final two ads in this year’s campaign for the Ivey Awards. Look for them in magazines, bus shelters and billboards all over the Twin Cities over the next month. Thanks again to photographers William Clark and Lucas Saugen. And, yes, you might have noticed that the two Ivey Award winners standing in the corn field look familiar. They’re the Baldwin sisters, Christina and Jennifer, the actors who starred as the long-lost twins with opposite political views in Brew’s Holiday Video last winter.
For the third consecutive year we’re proud to have donated our time to create the campaign for the Ivey Awards. What are the Ivey Awards, you ask? It’s the local award show to celebrate the 63 professional theater companies in the Twin Cities. And it’s quite the red carpet event, with a presentation that rivals the big award shows on TV. In fact, that was the inspiration for our campaign below. The images were used in magazine, outdoor and transit advertising, posters, electronic billboards, and as the visual theme for the event.
Of course we couldn’t have done it without some great collaborators who also donated their time. Our good friend and fashion shooter par excellence, William Clark, again did the portraits. Lucas Saugen, who ventured to the Canadian border to find the dock, shot the stunning backgrounds. Digital artist Kevin Johnston masterfully pieced their work together. The unflappable producer was Vanessa Lee. But we need to stop now because there are too many people to thank and we hate to miss anyone.
