AUCKLAND, Monday: Robyn Ramsey and Luke Roxburgh, who are currently interning under the insightful eyes of Regan Grafton at Stanley Street, sprinted up to accept their award in front of industry at last Thursday’s Axis Awards to make it the 5th year in a row that MDS has taken out the Google Axis Student Award.

LONDON, Monday: New Zealand has achieved Top 50 status at the UK’s Cresta Awards, joining the debut of Cresta’s elite list of high-performing global ad/design/comms agencies.

AUCKLAND, Monday: New indie design agency Blur the Lines has launched its first project for New Zealand’s famous Comvita honey brand.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Indie NZ news site Business Desk has published a thoughtful interview with Clemenger Group NZ ceo Strahan Wallis.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Newly appointed Special Group media director Briar Rowsell has been working with the Special team since November to establish a media planning group.

AUCKLAND, Monday: “Dear M+AD,” writes  MSL NZ’s Isobel Kerr-Newell. “Thanks for the warm Saatchi and Toyota mentions. I just wanted to flag that in addition to the Golds and the Client of the Year title referenced for the Toyota Hilux work there were also the following major awards …

AUCKLAND, Today: Clemenger Group has launched Proximity NZ, a new agency model “with a core purpose of finding the growth that’s hard to find for its clients”.

NEW YORK, Friday: D&AD has selected five NZ jurors that will help preside over the judging of the organisation’s 2021 awards programme.

AUCKLAND, Today: Dentsu has today announced “a simplification” of its business in New Zealand by bringing together several of the network’s capabilities under a single go-to-market brand proposition – dentsu.

By Natasha Galloway

AUCKLAND, Last night: To celebrate the incredible creative advertising work from over the last 12 months, 760 advertising and production company professionals came together at Shed 10 in Auckland.