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Creative Bites: Daniel Comar
June 10, 2009 – 2:20 am | No Comment
Creative Bites: Daniel Comar

DANIEL COMAR
EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
OGILVY & MATHER
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 KUALA LUMPUR PARTICIPANT
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What single piece of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?

“Don’t try to sell yourself. Focus on improving your book.”
What was the reaction you got, the advice you received the very first time you showed [...]

Creative Bites: Ray Barrett
June 9, 2009 – 8:39 pm | No Comment
Creative Bites: Ray Barrett

RAY BARRETT
CO-CHAIRMAN, CREATIVE
HEY HARRY WORLDWIDE
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 TORONTO PARTICIPANT
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What single piece of advice would you give a young creative before he or she sits down with you at PN7?

“Be prepared to throw away your book and start again. - It’s not how good you are it’s how good you want to be.”
What the coolest thing [...]

Creative Bites: Craig Lovelidge
June 9, 2009 – 3:18 pm | No Comment
Creative Bites: Craig Lovelidge

CRAIG LOVELIDGE
FREELANCE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
PORTFOLIO NIGHT 7 AMSTERDAM PARTICIPANT
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What are you hoping to experience at Portfolio Night?
“I’m looking to be around creative people, to see what’s happening out there in the dark corners of young creative’s minds and help answer any questions that these free thinkers may have about their ideas, their possibilities and their futures.
“It’s [...]

PN7 Buenos Aires: “Skip Them”
June 9, 2009 – 1:39 pm | No Comment
PN7 Buenos Aires: “Skip Them”

Sometimes the biggest obstacle preventing you from getting face-time with a renowned creative director is the creative director’s personal assistant. These gatekeepers, these secretaries, these receptionists are finely honed weapons, genetically designed to keep riff-raff like you from getting in the door.
And it would appear from Buenos Aires’ film, print and radio campaign for PN7 [...]

PN7 Melbourne: SOLD OUT!
June 9, 2009 – 12:55 pm | No Comment
PN7 Melbourne: SOLD OUT!

G’day mates! Melbourne just jumped past Los Angeles to become the next Portfolio Night city to sell out! Yes, BADJAR Ogilvy will be hosting a completely filled event on the 11th, with more young creatives than in Melbourne’s previous years of Portfolio Night.
As for the other cities, well LA has only three tickets left, and [...]

PN7 Montreal: SOLD OUT!
June 8, 2009 – 7:25 pm | No Comment
PN7 Montreal: SOLD OUT!

Wow, it seems like we’re going to be running out of cities to announce as “SOLD OUT” soon! Portfolio Night 7 Montreal, one of the original Portfolio Night cities, sold their final ticket mere moments ago!
So again we ask: who’s next? The most likely answer to that question is the sunny city of Los Angeles, [...]