Best Creative Director Award

This individual or small team is a leader who has innovative vision and a keen sense of design tying back to the client’s brand standards where necessary, reinforcing the brand message while appealing to the target audience and supporting the client’s business and/or marketing objectives. They will be admired by peers and employees as well as encouraging collaboration.  

2016 Winner: Amy Marenco, Art Director, Rogers Media Inc

 Amy Marenco has been honing her design skills at Rogers Media since 2008, when she joined  the company as an intern. In the eight years since, her fierce design skills have helped her  ascend the ranks from junior designer to senior designer to art director, and she’s contributed  to a wide variety of projects and campaigns – in both print and digital formats – for clients  including Walmart, Canadian Tire, Best Buy, Sportsnet, Chatelaine, HELLO! Canada and  Maclean’s. Most recently, she spearheaded the creative development for three distinct  magazines for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment’s major-league teams: the Toronto Maple  Leafs, Toronto Raptors and Toronto FC.

2015 Winner: Kate Barnett, Creative Director, BauerWorks

 Sydney-based Kate Barnett has more than 25 years' experience as an art director across the  advertising, magazine and newspaper industries, working on some of Australia’s top media  brands. This includes a long stint at Fairfax Media, working as a senior creative on mastheads  including major city newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s The Age as  well as Good Living.

She is currently the creative director on INTHEBLACK magazine, which has picked up multiple Australian and international awards during her tenure. 

2014 Winner: Ashley Logan Brenner, Creative Director, Imprint

Ashley Brenner is an award-winning art director and responsible for the creative vision at Imprint. She creates the look, the feel, and the tone for our clients, making sure they have a point of view and a vision that can be well articulated. She oversees content development across channels, including: briefing in the content, spotting a great idea and visualizing the content, being a brand ambassador for clients, and directing visual content throughout production and activation in a given market.

She has 15-year record of creating content in the lifestyle, financial services, real estate, and food industries, in addition to a degree in journalism. Her design experience at American Express Publishing, Hearst Magazines and Dow Jones – are all key in how she leads an inspired creative team.