AUCKLAND, Today: The Comms Council had to overcome a series of offshore bureaucratic difficulties before finally posting a 2020 Effie entry link on its website (scroll down).

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Newton-based Hustle & Bustle, which describes itself as a “PR/brand experience agency”, has been appointed as the agency partner for LVMH’s Moët Hennessy New Zealand.

AUCKLAND, Today: Denizen magazine – one of the few classy glossy titles left in the wake of the Bauer desertion – has just released its first post-Covid issue, a remarkable 264-page read.

“I started as an independent publisher in 2008 and have been the sole director, 100% owner and ringmaster ever since,” publisher/editor Claire Sullivan-Kraus told M+AD.

AUCKLAND, Today: The Effies open for entry tomorrow (scroll down for the links). “We almost didn’t have an Effie Awards programme this year,” emails the Comms Council’s Nathasha Galloway.

NEW YORK, Monday: Two NZ creatives are among the 13 APAC creatives – themselves part of the global jury of 88 creatives from 25 countries announced for Next Creative Leaders competition, run jointly by The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Stuff turned the ripe old age of 20 on Saturday and the celebrations keep coming with the launch of a new homepage today.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Herne Bay-based brand strategy & identity design company Unsworth Shepherd has created a nationwide out-of-home campaign designed to highlight the strength and effectiveness of out of home as a broadcast medium.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Tainui Press Design & Print graphic designer and digital printer Vanessa Hooton has been named the Print Industry Apprentice of the Year 2019.