Launch Adds 10 New Dallas ADDY Trophies To Its Collection in 2011
By: Alex | Published: 02/25/11
The 2011 Dallas ADDY awards were held this past Thursday, February 17th, and once again, Launch came home with a sizable share of the awards. Launch was awarded 10 trophies in all, and in a strangely consistent fashion, all of them were silver.

In a true “meta” moment, four of the trophies were awarded for work Launch did in order to promote the ADDY event itself. Each of the three posters won individual trophies, as well as one for the campaign as a whole. Work from this campaign, dubbed “Suffer for Your Art,” adorned the event space, from posters at the entrance to on-screen display graphics at either side of the stage.

The “Suffer for Your Art” theme also continued throughout the night as part of a crowd-pleasing video Launch created with acclaimed director Jeff Bednarz and Directorz executive producer Jeremy Besser. The video featured Dallas advertising luminaries describing some of the bizarre and hilarious challenges they’ve faced in producing award-winning advertising. They were edited with the considerable talent of Charlie Uniform Tango (Lola Lott; executive producer, Jack Waldrip, editor; Alex Campos, assistant editor; and Dave Slack, graphic artist).

Launch also took home three awards for its Children’s Advocacy Center posters. Each of these public service concepts, dubbed “Bear” and “Robot”, took home a trophy each, and again, the overall campaign won a trophy as well.

Another pair of trophies was awarded to Launch for its work on smart USA sales promotion materials, including one for a smart sales kit and another for a series of smart product info sheets. And, finally, Launch won its tenth trophy of the night for a small-space ad produced for smart center Dallas & Fort Worth, titled “the half monty.”

All in all, it was just the latest in a string of successful Dallas ADDY shows for Launch. Here’s looking forward to a repeat performance in 2012.

Launch and Smart USA make a cute couple, USA Today takes notice
By: Matthew | Published: 02/14/11

In honor of the couples’ holiday, Smart USA asked Launch to create vehicle wraps to promote the Smart ForTwo for Valentine’s Day. USA Today thought the results were pretty enough to print, and did so in their article about the collaboration.

The wrap themes for Smart USA’s two-seater, the Smart ForTwo, center on love, couples, and matters of the heart. The Launch designs were added to Smart USA’s existing gallery of custom wraps and are available online for viewing and purchase at smartusa.com/valentine.

Each design turns the Smart ForTwo into a Valentine’s card on wheels—the perfect medium for lovely expressions. Smart’s Valentine’s Expressions set the bar higher than the chocolate and flower standard of years past.

USA Today wrote about the romantic wraps in an article for the automotive section. And in it, contended that the Smart ForTwo is the only car that could pull off the look.

Launch is happy that Smart USA would be its Valentine. And just as proud to have the collaboration featured by USA Today. Read the USA Today article here.

Launch Welcomes Media Intern
By: Matthew | Published: 02/07/11

Alexandra Watson

With bounding enthusiasm, Alexandra Watson, New Media masters-candidate-intern extraordinaire, began her first official day at Launch two weeks past.

Her superpower — the ability to discern media consumption habits of the world’s most elusive prey in the Ahab’s quest of advertising. Her research interests include digital & social media strategy, influence within social networks, online metrics & analytics, and cross-cultural communication (which she researched for 5 weeks in India last summer).

She is above all else, a loving mother of two girls and a dedicated wife. Currently she is working on her Masters at SMU in Dallas. Before returning to school she worked in the financial services sector with non-profit organizations. She also has extensive experience in database management, database marketing, CRM, and business planning.

To see if she even has any free time, and if so, how she likes to occupy it, read on:

Q: If you were a toaster, what would you toast, and to what degree?
A: Sesame seed bagel, well-toasted. Practical and filling but a bit different.

Q: How do you feel about the pending robot apocalypse?
A: As long as the robots will need an analyst for their data, I’m okay with it.

Q: Hobbies?
A: Photography, scrapbooking, painting, singing, Lego games on Xbox 360 with my kids.

Q: Favorite copywriter intern?
A: Definitely Matt L.

Q: What is your ideal vacation?
A: A week at a beachside resort with my family in a place we’d never been to before. Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or somewhere on the Mediterranean would be great.

Q: Favorite inspirational rocket/space related saying?
A: “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” (Og Mandino, American essayist & psychologist, 1923-1996)

Q: Best film adaptation of a novel?
A: The Count of Monte Cristo (new version). The movie was better. In the book his revenge goes on for years and years.

Q: What is the best weather?
A: Cool and cloudy. With a chance of meatballs.

Launch welcomes Alexandra and Alexandra welcomes Girl Scout cookie orders. The form is on her desk. Check out her blog at blog.strategyrockstar.com.


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