As if Denver Ad students didn’t have enough on their plates.

I worked with DAD founders to develop their student award show program, implementing a new class and curriculum specifically designed to collect trophies at the Student One Show, D&AD, Communication Arts, and Radio Mercury awards.

These classes dive right into the provided award show briefs: we begin by learning how to understand award show challenges differ from a regular brief, and how to pull out the most interesting bits for inspiration. Then, students have a few short weeks to bring their best and boldest ideas. We then go through the process of writing, storyboarding, art directing, comping, editing, and polishing a case study, all by the 10 week class desdline.

This year, we achieved the #2 spot highest number of One Show finalists for an American portfolio program.

Here are a few favorite pieces created in an Art of Winning class, led by Salina Cole and I.

Durex: Wrap the Web
D&AD White Pencil, Graphite Pencil
Students: Worth Cameron Surratt, Meera Becker, Alessandra Montserrat Castro, Avery Longfield, Alyssa Hanke

ImMACulate
D&AD Graphite Pencil
Students: Leyna Cromarty, Alessandra Montserrat Castro, Meera Becker, Avery Longfield

Stock Up On Cheddar
D&AD Wood Pencil
Students: Alessandra Montserrat Castro, Leyna Cromarty, Daniel Rossi, Meera Becker, Daniel Friedman

Dove Real Beauty Insurance
One Show Merit
Students: Emily Waters, Megan Platt, Cat Zelenka

Vaseline Grease Garage
One Show Silver Pencil
Students: Alanna Evans, Evangeline Gichina, LaTrice Wooden, Elana Celestin

The Church of Lilith
One Show Silver Pencil
Students: Andrew Barnes, Matt Scherber, Noah Wehr, Emily Fisher, Rachel Taylor

Grandma Candy
Radio Mercury Awards, Best Student Commercial
Students: Emory Sittig , Kate Ichinose