Bear strong Bern advertisements

Advertising market For the tenth time, the best advertisements in Bern were awarded the "Urs" at a Publicitas Bern customer event.

Advertising market For the tenth time, the best Bernese advertisements were awarded the "Urs" at a Publicitas Bern customer event.The prejudice that Bern is provincial persists and can only be overcome with persuasiveness and awards. To avoid freezing to death in the shadow of the advertising metropolis of Zurich, the people of Berne, with the kind support of Publicitas, also shine their warming spotlight once a year on local creativity in order to honor national creativity just as generously - provided it has some kind of connection to Berne.230 Advertising motifs
This year, advertising agencies submitted over 230 advertising motifs for evaluation in the competition for the coveted Urs Trophy. The jury nominated three subjects each for the award in the categories "Best small Bernese advertisement", "Best local Bernese advertisement" and "Best national Bernese advertisement".
Fredy Collioud, jury president and former advertising celebrity in Bern, eloquently hosted the award ceremony. The event in the Kursaal was hosted by Stefan Frank, who works for Radio BE1. As every year, the Urs'03 is unique. This time the trophy was created by the Bernese sculptor
Walter Kretz. The winners also received attractive prizes in the form of free advertisements in the local print media.
The Urs'03 for the best small advertisement in Bern and advertising space worth 1000 francs in the Anzeiger Region Bern goes to the advertisement for the Frohegg restaurant, Bern/agency: Nulleins Kommunikationsdesign, Bern. Also nominated were Gsund & Gnuss, Bern/agency: Sonnenwerbung, Bern, and Oprandi+Partner, Bern/agency: Denis Jeitziner Text+Konzept/Careof Kommunikation GmbH, Bern.
The Bear for the Best Bernese Local Advertisement and a two-color free advertisement page in the daily newspaper Der Bund goes to Contexta, Bern, for its "Marthaler must stay" motif. The nominees were Bernmobil, Bern/agency: Lang Gysi Knoll, Bern, and Bifang Garage, Pieterlen/agency: Tasty Graphics, Bern.
Milk always wins
The Urs'03 for the best national Bernese advertisement and a free four-color advertisement page in the Berner Zeitung goes to the Swiss Milk Producers SMP, Bern/agency: Advico Young & Rubicam, Zurich, with the subject: "Today is Mother's Day." Also nominated in this category were Publisuisse, Bern/agency: Publicis, Zurich, and Tourismusbüro Ägypten, Bern/agency: Publicis, Zurich.
This is the second time that "Der Bund Gra-
For the "Graphic Design Prize", budding graphic designers from the Bern and Biel School of Design created ideas on the topic of "The advertisement as ambassador". Esther Zimmermann from Wabern won the travel voucher and thus the first prize.
Andreas Panzeri

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