There are now only about twelve hours left before the cut-off time for Portfolio Night ticket sales in San Francisco! PN6 San Fran is the kickoff for all of Portfolio Night, and it takes place this Wednesday!

Get your tickets now right here!

With only a few days before ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night, it looks like the crew at Alma DDB are looking to make PN6 Miami into one heckuva party, as seen in this video.

Tickets are still available for PN6 Miami, which is attracting a whole host of agencies (including some upstart shop called Crispin Porter + Bogusky), as well as students from New York, and even a young hopeful making the trek up from Peru!

Get your tickets and join the party by clicking here.

For all of those attending ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 6 in London this Thursday, we hope you are ready. After watching this video by JWT, it might not be pretty.

As anybody who has attended ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night in the past can attest, getting your portfolio reviewed is only part of the fun! There are plenty of laughs to be had, along with food, drinks and often unique entertainment. It appears as if the folks at Sid Lee have that last point covered, as they have announced that popular jazz acoustic cover band The Lost Fingers will be providing their musical talents for PN6 in Montreal. You can check them out on their myspace page right here. Their stirring rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Part Time Lover” must be amazing live.

For anybody who’s attending PN6 in Montreal, you also have a chance to check out Sid Lee in advance of this Thursday, as the agency is hosting a design exhibit and open house on Sunday, May 4th, from noon ’til 5 PM. It’s a great opportunity to get your pre-Portfolio Night schmooze on, and to figure out the best place to stand during the overtime period. For more info, check out their Facebook event page.

There are only a few tickets left for ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night in Singapore. But in the event that you miss out, there is a way for anyone around the world to have their portfolio reviewed by some of Singapore’s top creative directors: The Review-O-Matic!

Then again, maybe you should just buy one of the few remaining tickets right here.

Madrid. Philadelphia. St. Louis. Calgary. None of these cities are hosting ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 6, but it hasn’t stopped creative directors from these and other cities from getting involved in the world’s largest advertising portfolio review!

Yes, aspiring copywriters and art directors aren’t the only ones trekking great distances to attend PN6. CDs are getting into the act too! In some cases the CDs just so happen to be in that city on that particular day, but others are making it a point to attend. Does that mean they’re simply there to offer sage advice, or are they actively looking to hire and know that PN6 is a great event to find prospects? Who knows for sure, but it’s certainly an interesting situation for both the CDs and students.

To see which cities have CDs attending from other locations, check the creative director list and look for the CD names with cities in parentheses beside ‘em.

Stay tuned!

With less than two weeks until ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 6, the energy and excitement are getting more evident!

You most likely know about the official PN6 Facebook page, but did you know that some cities have started their own Facebook pages to promote the event in their area?

Click on each city’s name to see the pages for Toronto, Boston, Barcelona, Hong Kong and Santiago. They’re all great spots to see if any of your friends are attending, and if they’re not, well, it’s a great place to make new friends and compare notes before the big day!

It might be ihaveanidea’s smallest, most intimate Portfolio Night city, but that doesn’t mean that Quebec isn’t big on passion. This video, which features all five PN6 creative directors, conveys the type of friendly atmosphere that the Quebec Portfolio Night is sure to have. The “speed-dating” metaphor that works so well for cities like New York and Toronto is sure to give way to more relaxed experience here in one of North America’s oldest cities.

Just don’t let the CDs leave you with the bill.

For more info on Quebec’s Portfolio Night, including tickets, click here.

ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 6 is only two weeks away, and if you’re planning on attending in New York City, those two weeks are going to be spent in agony, desperately trying to find a ticket. You can try eBay or Craigslist, like some have done last year, or you can even try posting offers in ihaveanidea’s own forum. But eventually you’ll have to come to grips with the fact that you should’ve bought your ticket weeks ago.

So then what? Well you could wait until Portfolio Night 7 a year from now, or you could do what others are doing and attend PN6 in another city. Chicago, Miami, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec are all relatively short flights from the Big Apple, and Boston’s Portfolio Night is within driving distance (but if the party is gonna be as good as we’ve been hearing, you might need to be driven back in a wheelbarrow)

Whatever city you attend, remember that after Portfolio Night, your uploaded portfolio will be made available to all creative directors in all 22 cities. So even without being in New York on May 8th, you just might get discovered there.

ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 6 is back in the land of sand, surf and sun. Yes, Miami is ready to play host to another exciting year of book critiques!

Hosted by Alma DDB, PN6 Miami brings a certain Latin flavor to this globe-spanning event. Indeed, many of the agencies participating this year are adept in working in both English and Spanish, such as Creative On Demand and La Comunidad. Even Juan Carlos Ortiz, President of Latin America & US Hispanic Market for DDB, will be in attendance. But don’t worry, creativity will be the most important language on May 8th!

Alma DDB has put together this short video inviting everyone to PN6 Miami. In the meantime, all the necessary info, from the growing creative director list to ticket sales, can be found right here.

Note to agency CDs: for more info on creative director spaces available in various PN6 cities, please drop us a line at: pn6cds@ihaveanidea.org

¡Hasta pronto!

This year, ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night begins in San Francisco, then embarks on a long journey around the globe. So it’s appropriate that San Fran hosts Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners talk about the beginning of a journey of a slightly different sort: the journey of a creative career, as seen in this emotional video starring ECDs John Butler and Mike Shine.

The PN6 San Francisco creative director list is shaping up very quickly to be an all-star cast, with new names being added just about everyday. Agencies already represented include Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, BBDO and T.A.G. with more to follow very shortly!

One quick reminder: in order for PN6 to go completely around the world, starting and finishing on the North American Pacific coast, Portfolio Night San Francisco will be kicking things off on Wednesday, May 7th at 7:00 PM, so schedule accordingly. This also means that yes, it’s physically possible for the most eager aspiring creatives to attend PN6 in San Fran, catch an early enough flight the next day and attend PN6 in just about any other North American locale.

Now that would be a journey!

Stay tuned!

The Melbourne creative director list for ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 6 has just been posted!

Hosted by DDB, PN6 Melbourne is one of three cities in Australasia participating in this globe spanning portfolio review. While the list is relatively small right now compared to some other cities, it’s sure to grow over the next few days. Not that PN6 Melbourne needed a big list to entice aspiring young creatives to attend. As of April 2, 8:20 AM local time, there are only six tickets remaining! Time to act now, Melburnians!

Note to agency CDs: for more info on creative director spaces available in various PN6 cities, please drop us a line at: pn6cds@ihaveanidea.org

Stay tuned!

Since last year, we at ihaveanidea have been proud of the fact that we’ve taken Portfolio Night all around the world. But really, that hasn’t been exactly true now, has it? We start in Auckland, New Zealand, and we head westbound. We cross the Tasman Sea, the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. We pass the Mediterranean, swim the English Channel and even conquer the mighty Atlantic. And after a bit of fun in the Great Lakes, we grind to a halt on the west coast of Canada and the US.

But it’s not “around the world” if you bypass the entire Pacific Ocean, is it?

The talented crew at Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners, hosts of Portfolio Night 6 in San Francisco, have allowed for us to cure Portfolio Night 6 of its ‘pacificophobia’, and make it a genuine “around the world” 24+ hour event. For everyone planning on making the scene, Portfolio Night in San Fran will begin on Wednesday, May 7th at 7:00 PM. A few hours later, after a quick jaunt across the International Date Line (which, if we understand correctly, is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean) people will be lining up on Greys Avenue in Auckland, ready to set it off New Zealand style. We’ll then go all the way around the world, winding up back on the North American Pacific coast where we started, kicking off PN6 in Los Angeles and Vancouver.

For more information on Portfolio Night in San Fran, including the growing creative director list, venue location and ticket sales, click here.

PS: the astute young creative will note that this “Pacific Plan” makes it possible to attend PN6 in two cities; they can show their stuff in Frisco, then board a flight up or down the coast the next morning and catch the end of PN6 in LA or Van-city. Very Pacific indeed.

Stay tuned!

In preparation for ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 6 in Boston, the good folks at host agency PJA Advertising + Marketing have whipped up a little video for everyone.

You can view that video right here.

And yes, apparently that was the real life portfolio that PJA VP, Creative Director Aaron DaSilva used to try to break into the business.

For more info on Portfolio Night 6 in Boston, including a growing list of creative directors and a shrinking number of tickets, click right here.

Back in 2006, ihaveanidea brought Portfolio Night to four US cities for the very first time. One of those locales in the initial “American Invasion” was Boston, Massachusetts. After a one year hiatus, we’re happy to announce that Portfolio Night is making an enthusiastic return to Beantown, and details are coming out quickly.

PN6 In Boston is hosted by PJA Advertising + Marketing, who have been working hard to recruit as many local creative directors as early as possible. Already their list includes talent from such shops as Hill Holliday, Mullen and Arnold (who was very recently featured in an ihaveanidea agency profile.)

Boston event coordinator Anastasia Hannebrink of PJA is excited to be part of PN6. “We hope to take Portfolio Night 6 to an all new level here on the mean streets of Boston. More CDs. More young creatives. More drinks.”

For more info, including a growing list of Boston CDs, please check out the Portfolio Night 6 Boston page.

Stay tuned!

ihaveanidea has just created the official Portfolio Night 6 Facebook group, a perfect place to make new friends from around the globe and discuss the world’s biggest portfolio review. Find out who else is planning on attending, who has been before, who might be willing to collaborate in order to make your books as great as possible before May 8th, just about anything else PN6 related! If you’re one of the millions of people already on Facebook, you can find the Portfolio Night 6 Facebook group right here.