Palace Sydney team Buckingham and Mahdawi takes out ADFEST’s ‘Young Lotus’ competition

As the sponsor of the Australian Young Lotus at ADFEST in 2011, FBI Recruitment ran a competition for all under 30’s working in the Australian advertising industry to win a trip over to AdFest in March 2011; to take part in the Young Lotus workshops as well as attend the main AdFest event.

FBI had an overwhelming response, but there can only be one winning team; Nic Buckingham, art director (pictured right) and Arwa Mahdawi, planner (pictured left) from The Campaign Palace, Sydney. 

Says the team: “We’re thrilled to be chosen as Australia’s representatives at Young Lotus; it’s a great opportunity to meet and learn from great creative talent across Asia Pacific.” 

FBI would like to thank all the entrants for sending in their ideas and a special mention to those who made the shortlist:

Gavin Chimes & Tommy Cehak, Mark Sydney

Mark Carbone & Eleanor Dunn, BMF Sydney

Natalie Cheng, Visual Jazz & Jonathan Yuen, Tribal DDB

Wassim Kanaan & Blake Arthur, Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney

Josh Greive & Michael Talbot, MindShare Sydney

Laura Watson, Amy Robinson & Jarryd Zankovic, Play Communication

Thomas Marcusson & Stephanie Rajalingham, Freelancing

Says Michael Kean, managing director of FBI Recruitment: “It wasgreat to see such a diverse range of ideas from more than 30 youngAussie teams. Overall, we were thrilled to see the calibre ofworld-class strategic thinking that our young teams here possess, socongratulations to all that took part; in particular to the teams thatmade the shortlist and of course the winners Nic and Arwa.”

The pair will be flying to Phuket on the 13th March where they willattend the Young Lotus workshop from 14th to 16th giving them theopportunity to become finalists for the Young Lotus Award. The festivalconcludes on the 19th March.

Any queries, please call Bianca Gilbert, FBI 92474755 or bianca@fbirecruitment.com