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Calder Bateman usurps DDB as top shop at Advertising Club of Edmonton awards
After six straight years of dominating the Advertising Club of Edmonton's ACK Awards, DDB was dethroned earlier this month, conceding top spot to Calder Bateman, which won an impressive 12 gold awards, plus Best of Show and the People's Choice Award.
Best of Show went to the quirky "Lavatory Accidents" poster series for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The posters, which depict wrecked and crumpled cars, were hung in bar and restaurant washrooms, and positioned so that it appeared the vehicles had crashed into urinals and hand dryers.
Half of CB's golds were for its work for MADD, including wins tor Poster Scries, Newspaper Single, Public Service Print and Radio Single and two golds in the...