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Whyness and The One Club for Creativity announce Portfolio Night 14 to be held on May 23 in Mumbai
Portfolio Night 14 will he hosted in Mumbai on May 23 and will be hosted by Whyness and The One Club for Creativity.
In a recent development, Whyness and The One Club for Creativity announced May 23, 2018 as the date for Portfolio Night 14, an advertising portfolio review programme to be held at the Mumbai campus of ecole intuit.lab.
The programme enables some of the best creative directors to meet and mentor the leaders of the future in industry hubs around the world. The event takes place in dozens of cities across the globe on the same date. The programme includes Portfolio Night All-Stars, where the young creative with the best portfolio from each city will be flown to New York later this year, all expenses paid, to work as a team on a creative assignment for a major global brand.
In Mumbai, Whyness, an integrated communications agency will organise and lead Portfolio Night working closely alongside The One Club for Creativity’s Portfolio Night global team.
Speaking on this collaboration, Ravi Deshpande, founder and chairman, Whyness and ecole intuit.lab shares in a press note, “The creative industry is right in the eye of a storm that’s changing the very definition of creativity, and the onus of spotting potential talent, and nurturing it is upon us. This needs to be done with care, as old rules are now redundant. This is something I believe in deeply, through our unique ecosystem of Whyness and ecole intuit.lab as well as at a personal level. So, the opportunity seemed like a natural extension to take Portfolio Night in Mumbai to its fullest potential.”
Kevin Swanepoel, chief executive officer, The One Club says, “Portfolio Night is a unique global event that serves as a high-visibility opportunity for agencies and creative directors to give back to the industry by guiding the earliest steps of future copywriters, art directors and technologists. The benefits also run both ways: Portfolio Night has become a crucial tool for agencies in recruiting top young talent, provides agencies with recognition from local industry peers and gives them a place on the global stage as the ad world tunes in to this one-of-a-kind event.”