A half dozen students from Boston University’s College of Communication offered their take on the “future of talent” during a keynote presentation at a gathering last month in Boston of top creative and advertising talent for the annual In House Agency Forum conference under the theme “Future Proof.” “The whole topic was the future of… Read More
COM students took home 19 of the 26 student awards given out at the 59th Annual Hatch Awards for Creative Excellence last night at the House of Blues. COM students snagged one gold, six silver, five bronze and seven merits awards. Thirty different students, both graduate and undergraduate, from portfolio classes taught by Edward Boches,… Read More
Recent grad Emma Johnson (’19) had one goal when she entered COM as a freshman: to pay for her college tuition through her accessories line, Em John. Four-years later and she did it – with some help from Oprah. Read Emma’s first-person story on Refinery29.
Thirteen COM students, comprising seven teams, had eight creative advertising campaigns accepted into The One Show’s Young Ones’ category this year. The 13 graduate and undergraduate students, in advertising portfolio classes taught by Professors Edward Boches, Doug Gould, and Pegeen Ryan, won either merits or gold, silver, or bronze pencils, which will be announced at… Read More
A professor of advertising at the College of Communication, Professor Doug Gould is one of the most influential names in the business today. He’s won pretty much all the major advertising awards, earned two Emmy nominations, and his Super Bowl spots (1, 2) have made it to two separate All-Time Top 5 Super Bowl Commercials lists…. Read More
Boston University College of Communication students took home 13 of the 16 student awards given out at the 58th Annual Hatch Awards for Creative Excellence at the House of Blues on October 25th. COM students snagged five gold (most ever won by any college entrant), three silver, three bronze and two merits. Twenty different students,… Read More
Sadie Devane and Jackie Wu—master’s in advertising students from Edward Boches’ portfolio development class, won a Silver Pencil for their campaign, “Same Day” at the 2018 One Show. All student nominees representing Boston University submitted work to The Young Ones Social Brief, the only competition category to focus primarily on social causes. This year’s topic addressed opioid overdose awareness and prevention…. Read More
Seven undergraduate alums and seven currently enrolled graduate students swept the annual Hatch Awards, New England’s equivalent of the “Academy Awards of Advertising.” Together they won two silver, five bronze and four merit awards at the nation’s oldest and most prestigious regional award show. The first silver bowls went to Isabella Bolivar (’17) and Michael Philbin (’17), for… Read More
Students recognized for creative ideas promoting diversity Boston, MA, October 19, 2017 — For the second year in a row three teams of Boston University College of Communication advertising students have won a trip to New York and a portfolio review at the highly regarded 3 Percent Conference, the advertising industry’s leading conference and association… Read More
This week, COM students received 12 of the 15 student awards presented at the 56th Annual Hatch Awards , the Ad Club’s annual celebration of creative excellence in advertising. COM students won four silver awards, two bronze and six merit awards for campaigns that included videos, websites, digital products and services, online advertising and print…. Read More