Young Ones Student Awards

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Young Ones 2017 Portfolio - Advertising Jury

Catherine Allen

Associate Creative Director

Zulu Alpha Kilo

Toronto/Canada

Catherine Allen is an Associate Creative Director at Zulu Alpha Kilo, a gutsy and fast-growing Toronto agency that was named Ad Age Small Agency of the Year in 2016. Zulu gained worldwide recognition for its Say No to Spec campaign that challenges the industry-wide spec work practice, as well as its award-winning work for clients like Cineplex and Interac.

A creative who loves “making stuff”, Catherine spent the first ten years of her creative journey as a designer and expanded her scope to include art direction seven years ago. Since then, she quickly rose to lead complex, integrated campaigns for some of Canada’s top brands while working at some of the country’s leading agencies.

Most notably, Catherine was the creative mind behind the acclaimed Respect the Bean campaign for the Nabob Coffee Company as well as the internationally recognized branded content campaign “The Movie Out Here” for Canadian beer brand Kokanee that included a theatrically-released feature-length film. Her work has achieved international and local recognition at numerous award shows including Cannes, One Show, D&AD, the Effies, and Epica.

 

 

 

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