ihaveanidea to mobilize Canada’s entire advertising industry for Portfolio Night in Canada III

Toronto, April 13 | 2005 - On May 17th ihaveanidea will be presenting Portfolio Night in Canada III, the largest simultaneous advertising portfolio review ever held in the world. To mark the third anniversary of the annual event, ihaveanidea has added three new cities to this year’s gathering. For 2005, Halifax, Edmonton and Calgary will be joining last year’s roster of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa, to offer a total of seven review nights simultaneously in seven markets, with the combined goal of helping Canada’s budding young creatives.

Students enrolled in an advertising program, graduates and up-and-coming creatives will have the opportunity to spend valuable face-to-face time with an exclusive group of Canada’s leading creative directors and industry leaders. By offering advice to students on their portfolios and helping them improve their work, the goal of the event is to break down the boundaries between industry and education.

“When the rest of the world finds out that Canada’s advertising industry was mobilized on one day across 7 cities, 5 time zones, and 6,050 kilometers their perception of Canada’s amazing advertising industry will change forever. I’m not sure non-Canadians even know we have 7 cities, “ says ihaveanidea’s founder and director Ignacio Oreamuno. “we are very proud to lead this effort and even prouder to receive the generous support and sponsorship of the country’s leading industry partners. May 17th is going to be a historical day for Canada’s advertising industry.”

For $35 dollars, aspiring creatives, or juniors with an advertising portfolio can have their work reviewed by at least three creatives. Anyone interested in taking part in the event must register online at ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night in Canada website, http://www.ihaveanidea.org/portfolionight2005 or http://www.ihaveanidea.org/soiredesportfolios in Montreal in Montreal.

Sponsors of ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night in Canada include First Light, the Radio Marketing Bureau, TAXI, Reginald Pike, the Clio Awards, VCU Adcenter, Sharpe Blackmore, The CCL Group, ABM Research, Rethink, Grey Worldwide Northwest, adbeast and Push.

Young creatives are encouraged to attend one of the seven exciting events across the country, where they will have the opportunity to speak with a minimum of three world-class creative directors.

For more information on the creative directors reviewing the portfolios in each city, please see the Portfolio Night in Canada website.

For further information, please contact:

Ignacio Oreamuno
Founder & Director
ihaveanidea
Tel: 416.909.2529
info@ihaveanidea.org

Jay Thompson
VP of Stuff (Sponsorship)
ihaveanidea
Tel: 416.655.6546
jay@ihaveanidea.org


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About ihaveanidea

ihaveanidea is Advertising's Intellectual Archive. It is a project with the mission of serving the advertising industry as a centre of self-analysis, intellectual growth and communications portal.

The foundations of the project are based on the idea that disseminating and sharing creative knowledge will benefit all in the industry.

Thousands of creatives from around the world visit the project each month.

ihaveanidea was founded and created by Ignacio Oreamuno, a former art director from Ogilvy& Mather. Several creatives help make the project a reality.

ihaveanidea is sponsored by The Clio Awards , the globe’s most recognized international advertising awards competition; Black Bag, North America’s creative talent attraction consultancy – with practice areas in talent attraction consulting, creative recruitment and strategic career planning and coaching; Future Marketing, which celebrates a wide range of non-traditional marketing and advertising techniques, Human Locator, an interactive visual system developed by Freeset and designed expressly for advertising; Adweek which has the inside stories on: creativity, client/agency relationships, successful global advertising strategies; Beam.TV, a global distribution network that specializes in the immediate digital delivery of advertising across different platforms and countries; Technicolor, the most powerful post-production house for the commercial market; Fuel Industries, North America's leader in advergame development; Eloda an independent third party provider of TV advertising occurrence verification services and VCU Adcenter, a two-year graduate program providing an intensive, real-world education for future advertising leaders in Richmond, Virginia.

For further information, please contact:
Mimi Martinoski
Communications Director
ihaveanidea
Tel: 416.827.0537
mimi@ihaveanidea.org