Tasmania launches ad awards show

Tasmania is launching its own advertising awards show.

Called the Tasmania Advertising & Design Awards – or the TADAs for short – the festival aims to “nurture a uniquely Tasmanian creative vernacular” and to raise creative standards in the apple isle.

A launch event will be held in Hobart on Tuesday August 16.

The jury will be made up of local creative figures, although each year there will be a guest jury chairman from the mainland or region. The first guest jury chairman will be announced at the launch event.

A guest speakers will be Mark Ringer, ECD of TBWA\Tequila Hong Kong. His talk will be titled “Inside the jury room in Cannes”.