(TORONTO, September 19th, 2007) ihaveanidea, Advertising's Intellectual Archive, proudly announces the addition of The Art Directors Club to its growing roster of industry sponsors. In support of ihaveanidea's mission to globally promote and nurture the advertising industry, The ADC, will be part of ihaveanidea's events and educational initiatives for the coming year.

"The partnership between The Art Directors Club and ihaveandiea is centered on community through the engagement of visual communication professionals around the globe. At core, both organizations share a passion for making the industry as great as it can be." says Ami Brophy, Executive Director, The Art Directors Club Inc.

The ADC is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Like ihaveanidea, The ADC promotes the highest standards of excellence and integrity in visual communications and encourages students and young professionals entering the field, making this partnership an ideal fit.

"We are very excited to the have The Art Directors Club on board as a sponsor. We look forward to showcasing to the world all the amazing things they do for our industry." says Ignacio Oreamuno, President, ihaveanidea.


About The Art Directors Club:

Founded in New York in 1920 as the first creative collective of its kind, The Art Directors Club, Inc. is a 501[c]3 not-for-profit organization with an international membership in advertising, design and related visual communications disciplines. ADC's core program—the international Annual Awards competition, exhibition and Art Directors Annual—is now in its 86th year and remains unrivalled as an educational and industry resource. ADC's signature initiatives also include ADC Young Guns biennial showcase of promising professionals age 30 and under; the ADC Hall of Fame; Saturday Career Workshops for talented city high school juniors; Designism, connecting designers to social causes; scholarships, exhibitions, speaker events and original books and publications.

The Art Directors Club
106 West 29th Street
New York, New York
10001
www.adcglobal.org

Not yet a member?
www.adcglobal.org
212-643-1440

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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