Firehouse Recognized with 14 Dallas ADDY Awards Across Multiple Creative Categories

DALLAS, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dallas chapter of the American Advertising Federation honored Firehouse with 14 ADDY Awards on February 9, more than any other Dallas-based agency. The 2012 ADDY Awards recognized the Dallas advertising community for work in print, broadcast, television and interactive media. 

The agency took home gold, silver and bronze awards across multiple categories, including recognition for outdoor boards for Stripes Convenience Stores, regional/national television and vehicle advertising graphics for Interstate Batteries, and public service TV for Taylor's Gift Foundation, among others.

"Being recognized and honored by the ADDYs for our work on multiple clients, across so many categories this year, makes me incredibly proud of all that we're accomplishing and proves our desire to be the most creative shop in Dallas," said Tripp Westbrook, executive creative director at Firehouse.  "None of the work that the agency produces comes without great relationships with clients and vendors, without great strategy and insight and great media execution."

This year, more than 450 entries were submitted in the Dallas competition. The gold and silver winners will move on to the regional ADDY Award competition and those winners will move on to the national ADDY Awards. 

Judges for this year's competition included Desmond Hall, former VP and Executive Creative Director at Globalhue; Brian Booker, Chief Creative Officer at Bernstein Rein; and Carol Kono-Noble, Design Director at AdamsMorioka.

With more than 60,000 entries, the ADDYs are the world's largest advertising competition. The ADDYs are conducted by the American Advertising Federation, the oldest national advertising trade association, representing 40,000 professionals in the advertising industry with a national network of 200 ad clubs. The ADDY Awards competition is the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition for creative excellence.

About the AAF Dallas

Founded in 1908, the Dallas Ad League is more than 900 members strong and is affiliated with the Tenth District of the American Advertising Federation, part of AAF's national network of more than 200 ad clubs and 40,000 professionals. AAF Dallas strives to elevate the success of the advertising community through innovation, creative excellence, collaboration, professional development, education and philanthropic endeavors.

About Firehouse

We do things differently at Firehouse. Our goal is to make a material difference in our clients' bottom line by thinking like a business consultant and executing like a creative boutique. We utilize a collaborative mix of creative, media, planning and public relations to seek out new ways of doing business and more impactful methods of communicating. The results speak for themselves so it's no surprise that Firehouse has garnered national, regional and local awards as well as being named Agency of the Year in the Southwest at Advertising Age's Small Agency Awards. A few of the clients we make a difference for include Interstate Batteries, Stripes Convenience Stores, Taco Cabana, Huawei Devices of North America, WGU Texas and Taylor's Gift Foundation. For more information visit www.firehouseagency.com.

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