Joji Jacob to head up AWARD School Singapore
AWARD School, the pre-eminent training program for aspiring Creatives, Copywriters and Art Directors, has secured a new School Head for its 2012 Singapore program.
Joji Jacob, currently the Group Executive Creative Director for DDB Group Singapore, will be nurturing the next generation of creative talent, taking over from former AWARD school head Guan Hin Tay – JWT.
Jacob’s accolades include being named Singapore’s most influential Creative Director in 2010 and South East Asia’s Creative Person of the Year 2011.
He commented: “It’s a huge honour to be able to help a reputed program like Award school train the next generation of Singapore’s creatives. The school has impeccable credentials and a proven track record. It’ll be a big task to fill Guan’s considerably large shoes as the next Award School Head, but with the help of my peers in the other agencies I hope to be able to do it justice.”
As Group Executive Creative Director, Jacob runs the one of the region’s largest and most integrated creative departments. Tasked with shaping the agency’s creative direction from 2009, the agency has since gone on to become Singapore’s most awarded agency for the past three years. The agency was voted Agency of the Year at both the Creative Circle Awards 2010 and emerged Creative Agency of the Year at Marketing Awards.
Most recently, he and his teams returned from Cannes 2012 with two gold, two silver and two bronze Lions. Jacob also sits on DDB’s regional and global Creative Councils.
Applications for the 2012 program open on Friday 6th July 2012. Applications can be submitted until 20 July and there is a stringent selection process in place to pick prospective students, with lectures starting August 13.
AWARD School students will be lectured and tutored by experts from local agencies.
The ten week program focuses on teaching graduates the power of the idea with lectures focusing on translating ideas for different media channels and covering how to find inspiration, how to bring ideas to life and how to translate them into strategy.
AWARD School is ranked 6th in the top advertising schools worldwide, as recognised by the International YoungGuns Top 10 of Schools producing the most awarded creative students in the past 10 years.
AWARD School has a 29 year history of nurturing creative talent, with graduates including David Droga, Craig Davis and regional creative leaders such as Steve Back, Chief Creative Officer at Ogilvy Singapore.
The application brief and entry criteria are available at www.awardschoolasia.com, applications should be submitted electronically. For more information contact AWARD School representative Tesha Jones: tesha@communicationscouncil.org.au or +612 8297 3877.
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Jacob says: “It’ll be a big task to fill Guan’s considerably large shoes…”
When Droga came to Saatchi, they asked him the same thing about Linda Locke;s footprint and at the time he said: “I’ll be bringing my own shoes.”
Interesting difference.
Anyway, here’s to AWARD’s new chapter.
What clients will you be giving briefs for? This school is quite expensive for Singapore. It just doesn’t pack the same punch as AWARD down under.
Good on you Joji. Award school is a great way to get into advertising –
Matt Eastwood ECD DDB NY – I was in my last year of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design when I was accepted into Award School. I’d been at University for almost three years. But it was after 12 weeks of Award School that I finally felt like somebody had turned on the light. I understood the importance of ideas. I understood the joy of generating them. I understood the pain of losing them. I understood the power of them. I understood why the first one was never the best. And I understood that the best one could always be better. University taught me about craft. But Award School taught me about ideas. And for that I am ever grateful.
Well done Joji. Award school get more involved this year rather than just taking the parents money and leaving everything to the mentors.
CONGRATS! I’m signing up.
@Tsk Tsk, you said it right. The mentors do all the work for free, at their own time. AWARD just sends over the brief, sometimes on the day of the class itself, and collects the students’ money
But congrats, Joji!
You ain’t kidding, that’s exactly what happens. AWARD School is a really great and worthy idea, but the parent body needs to be more involved for the whole duration. It’s a training course, not a McDonald’s franchise!