Judging for the Northwest ADDY Awards was held in Boise, Idaho, April 3-5. The judges for the competition were Mark Carlson, Senior Director, US Marketing Creative for McDonald’s Corporation; Jeff Olsen, Chief Creative Officer for Rare Method; Jim Mathis, Creative Director for ADwerks and Amy Hodgins, Creative Director at MRM Worldwide in New York. The judges evaluated over 700 entries in this year’s competition for the Northwest ADDY Awards.

DDB Seattle was awarded Best of Show Broadcast for their Television spot “Garden Wedding” for the Equality California Institute. Copacino+Fujikado, Seattle, WA, was awarded Best of Show Print for their campaign, “Out is In” for REI and Best of Show New Media was awarded to DDB Seattle for “Piping Cold” for McDonald’s of Western Washington.

Best of Show in the Student category went to Heidi Jantz from Spokane Falls Community College for her wine label.

The Northwest ADDY Awards is an annual creative competition sponsored by District XI of the America Advertising Federation (AAF); the advertising industry’s largest trade organization. District XI is comprise of local clubs in the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta.

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All Silver and Gold winners have been sent to the National competition. District XI and the Northwest ADDYs pays the entry fee for our gold winners. Silver winning entrants have the option of paying the entry fee if they would like their work judged in the national competiton.