Miami Ad School’s talented graduates thrilled to be Downunder working new digital careers
Graduates and interns from Miami Ad Schools in New York, Madrid and Hamburg have chosen Sydney to start their advertising careers and are thrilled with their decision.
Manuel Caminero, a graduate from Madrid has fulfilled a long- standing ambition to work in Sydney. He is interning as a junior art director at DT and plans to build his career here.
Charli Hoffmann from the Hamburg school decided to accept a job offer in Sydney after graduating from Miami Ad School New York in 2011. She now works as a digital art director at JWT.
Says Hoffmann: “Working in Sydney has been a perfect dream come true. After travelling the world for Miami Ad School & Internships I am glad to be able to call Sydney my home. The beachy atmosphere and super friendly Australians so far have made this work experience amazeballs. Anyone that loves a good surf and doesn’t mind 365 days of working in the sun should definitely come on down.”
Hoffmann’s awards include: 2011 Young Guns – Finalist 2012 New York City Addy – Silver 2012 D&AD Best of Year – Make your Mark Finalist 2012 Bees Awards – Best Student Work Finalist 2012 National Addy – Gold.
Miami Ad School interns Simon Maye who hails from Northern Ireland and Kristina Litvin from Boston are working as a creative team, also at JWT.
Says Adam Beuapeurt, lead strategist, DT: “Miami Ad School graduates have proven conceptual and digital skill and they’re a good cultural fit because of their global outlook.”
Says Helga Diamond, the owner of Miami Ad School Australia: “Australia is performing so well at global awards and that attracts the attention of young talent. I have observed an increasing interest from Miami Ad School graduates who want to build their careers or spend an internship here.”
Agencies interested in hosting Miami Ad School interns can contact Helga Diamond via email here.
(Pictured L-R: Manuel Caminero, DT intern; Filipe Oliveira, prospective student; Kristina Litvin, JWT intern; Charli Hoffmann, JWT digital art director; Will Winter Irving, prospective student: Simon Maye, JWT intern)
22 Comments
They took our jobssssssss………..
“they’re a good cultural fit because of their global outlook.”
What does that even mean?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brj2UkUPjCI
What we should congratulate them on really is how they all come from the richest families – Miami Ad School costs about $11,000 a year.
The Australian industry’s good because pretty much everyone went to AWARD and either went or were taught by people from Watford. I’m worried the massive cost of going to Miami ad school will mean bright kids who can’t afford to get in will miss out, or more to the point, the industry will be full of more rich kids with nay fooling imagination.
Good on them for filling the intern spots at JWT however, means the local students can get placed somewhere decent.
Please, your staff spend hours of their own time to teach local, let’s support local. Pick an AWARD graduate, preferably one who went to a ‘local’ school.
@Pepe
It means they will be a great novelty to have an “international” person working in the agency – because here in Australia we have no way of seeing what the rest of the world is producing.
If only they could invent something so we could get an idea of what “international” creativity is.
Advertising is moving away from a middle class job to an upper middle class job.
Good on them,
The more talent in Australia the better, competition only pushes the boundaries of the industry that much further, after all that’s we are all here to do.
All your cynicism just reeks of fear.
I agree with Rant rant rant,
Pick an AWARD graduate.
Who would you rather have in your department? A young James McGrath, Ant Keogh, John Mescall or Ben Coulsen (off the top of my head) or someone who had enough money to travel the world before deciding Sydney was a great place to start a career that’s already had $90000 spent on it?
Correct me if I’m wrong but all of the above are thoroughly Australian, and none have international experience.
Has Award School lost its position as the bridge for upcoming creative talent in Aus?
It would be a shame if it did.
Australia has so much of a hardon for American ad guys that we’re importing interns now. Sad.
Plus, you can be guaranteed that they’re bottom rung – Aussie digital is barrel scrapings. They just couldn’t score a gig overseas, or we paid them a lot (which is pathetic in its own right).
Some are rich. Some get a job and save up. Some get a loan and pay it off once they get a job. And there are scholarships students.
Go for an AWARD student.
Has Award school lost its position as the bridge for upcoming creatives in Aus?
It would be a shame if it did.
‘Aussie digital is barrel scrapings’ – you may just want to check the campaigns that Australia won at Cannes, the webby’s, one show, Clio, d&ad etc recently… That is if you can extract your fat head from your anus.
We should be more supportive of award given the collective amount of head hours we’ve all contributed – for free – to judge, teach and run the group. Millions of dollars in agency profits easily.
Not asking for a closed system by any means, but it should be the first place to look for new talent. Hopefully the bloke that didn’t do so well for mojo isn’t running it any more, and initiatives like a partner-matching service, work / folio showcase etc can be developed.
By the way, really fucked off there isn’t an annual this year. The one decent thing they manage to get right has been turned into a cumbersome 75 bazillion gigabyte iPad PDF.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but JWT and DT didn’t win shit in awards – let alone anything at Cannes.
My head may be up my arse, but at least I expect our industry to be better and don’t go around and parade it as world-class.
@Mystery Man
>”because here in Australia we have no way of seeing what the rest of the world is producing.”
So true. just no way we can see what the rest of the world is producing. except for the gazillion blogs and sites updated every second, over saturating the Internet with advertising news. or the over the top Cannes coverage, which everyone in the industry follows for two weeks instead of doing work, listening and reading about all everything that’s happened over the last 12 months in the world.
you the guy who made the original statement because if you are, I suggest if you want to learn about the global market, try google over hiring a rich kid from NY.
cheaper and more effective.
@InternationalMysteriousMan
doesnt really mean that though does it? nice try,
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56fubBpNw1qa06gko1_400.png
There’s no place or need for Miami adschool in Australia. It works fine and is a great school in Europe and the States where there are plenty of jobs and agencies. Here we have AWARD school, a cheaper quicker course that still equips grads with the skills to get a gig. The industry isn’t big enough to find jobs for all those graduates but as with any profession, the cream rises and the hungry and talented ones get in and make it.
If JWT wants to take on these interns from the overseas MA campus then fair play to them, but Miami adschool won’t even get off the ground here because it doesn’t have the support of the local industry.
I have heard from my advertising professional that Miami Ad Schools in New York are among the best advertising school for your kids.
Students get their placement before finishing their schooling. It is not only about the placement it is all about the way of teaching.
I must congrats you all and wish you all the very best for your coming future.