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06.26.12
Ad Age Assigns Cover Art Worldwide
For its annual "global issue," Advertising Age and its editor, Abbey Klaassen and AD Jesper Goransson decided to have a competition for artists and designers around the world to create the cover.
The winning cover was created by Rohit Dhamija and Udayan Chakravarty, an AD and copywriter (respectively) at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson (JWT) in New Delhi, India.
See the finalists after the jump.
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Sean van der Westhuizen, OwenKessel (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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Anish Philip Abraham, Amrita Singh, Arnab Ray, Abhishek Deshwal, JWT (New Delhi, India)
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Mitesh Joshi, Makani Creatives Pvt. Ltd. (Mumbai, India)
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Alejandro Ortiz, JWT (Bogotá, Colombia)
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Jorge Garcia, La Fábrica & Jotabequ/Grey (Guatemala City, Gautemala)
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Manuela Bolivar, Alejandra García, Miami Ad School (Madrid, Spain)
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Kassandra Zuanich, Miami Ad School (Lima, Peru)
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Christine Göös, Lauri Leiwo, Erol Tekkanat, TBWA (Helsinki, Finland)
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André Bose do Amaral, Blue Barracuda (Dubai, UAE)
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Julia Kaiser, Safari Sundays, (New York, NY)
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Alejandro Herrer, Carlos Pizarro, Miami Ad School (Madrid, Spain)
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Wallace Cruz, Miami Ad School, (Miami, Florida)
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Rushita Bhatadye, Lowe Lintas (Mumbai, India)
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Nainaa Rajpaal, Ruchika Nambiar, Karan Rajpal, Srishti School of Design (Bangalore, India)
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Harjot Sokhey (New Delhi, India)
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Kaushik Iyer, Joseph Chan, JWT (Singapore)
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Ulisses Razaboni, João Ferraz, Andressa Reigadas, DDB (São Paulo, Brazil)
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Brit Ryan, Colle+McVoy (Minneapolis, Minn)
These are the 18 runners-up, chosen from more than 300 entries in Ad Age's third-annual contest to design a global-themed cover for their Global Issue. They were chosen based on their cover design submissions; separately, the entrants were asked to show how the cover could translate to online video (see videos here) as well as to share their creative inspiration.
