R/GA’s global chief creative officer Nick Law to chair the LIA 2013 Digital judging in Las Vegas

Nick Law, Global Chief Creative Officer of R/GA will Chair the London International Awards 2013 Digital Jury in Las Vegas in October this year.

As Global Chief Creative Officer, Law (left) is responsible for the creative vision of R/GA, the New York-based agency for the digital age. He guides teams of visual designers, copywriters and interaction designers as they create award-winning work for many Fortune 500 companies. He also ensures that R/GA stays true to the company’s unique legacy of collaboration between world-class creative and ground-breaking technology.

Since 2001 Law has played a significant role in shaping R/GA’s creative vision. In that time, his work has won numerous international Awards and has been widely published in the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific.

Within a year of joining the company, he was promoted to Vice President of Visual Design and shortly thereafter, named Executive Creative Director on the Nike account, an account responsible for some of the industry’s most innovative and high profile work.

On chairing LIA’s Digital Jury, Law said, “It’s a great privilege (and lots of fun) to be the Chair of this year’s LIA Digital Jury. Our industry is going through such a volatile and confusing transition; deciding what work is smart, creative and appropriate will be no simple task. I’m sure we’ll return home after judging exhausted and inspired.”

Barbara Levy, President of LIA said, “Nick is a multi-award winning global creative talent. Under his guidance R/GA was named the 2012 LIA Agency of the Year and was awarded a Grand LIA. This year, every Digital entry will be judged, by all the Digital Judges, on-site in Las Vegas. This is no small feat and we are very pleased that Nick is able to take time out of his hectic schedule to lead the process”

LIA will open their Entry System at the end of April with a final deadline at the end of July.

LIA Educational Initiative: In 2012, LIA announced the launch of its ‘Creative Conversations’ program targeted to Young Creatives from around the globe. As a way to give back to the very industry that has made LIA a trailblazer across the awards landscape, LIA coordinated a week of seminars, ‘conversations’, lunches and dinners that were both educational and stimulated discussions around the future of Advertising.

In 2013, ‘Creative Conversations’ will once again take place at Encore/Wynn Las Vegas during the week of the October 2013 LIA Judging Sessions. The entire initiative, including travel, meals and hotel expenses, is fully funded by LIA.

Only seventy attendees from around the globe will be invited to this intimate, invitation-only event. LIA has communicated word of the ‘Creative Conversations’ to various global agency networks, independent agencies, production companies, associations and media outlets. The managers of these companies and associations will chose individuals for the exclusive opportunity to experience LIA’s educational initiative.

The leaders of the ‘Creative Conversations’ in 2012 included: Ted Royer, Susan Credle, Israel Diaz, Sonal Dabral, Tony Calcao, Jeremy Craigen, Faris Yakob, Neil French, Phil Growick, Doerte Spengler-Ahrens, Bob Garfield, Jonathon Ker, Ralph van Dijk and Scott Elias.