
Top 5 Ways to Become “Top Dog”
What do the Top Dog judges look for? Great ideas, integrated campaigns, passion for your craft and your work ethic.
Miami Ad School created Top Dog when the school first opened and each quarter the judges look forward to student’s poems, photographs, campaigns and anything else creative. Are you ready to be “Top Dog”? Here’s a peek of last quarter’s winners from Miami!
Do you have what it takes?
- Build your creative dream team. Yes, that means the people that everyone wants to work with, because they know what “team” means.
- Let loose. Brainstorm ideas. Brainstorm more. Know that the best idea is probably not your first one.
- Once you have a great idea- concept the execution…again…and again.
- Don’t argue with your teammates. It’s like making love- you can’t do it when you’re fighting.
- Praise your partner. It has a boomerang effect.
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2015 Winter Quarter Top Dog Awards Winners, from left to right: Rajath Ramamurthy, Ricardo Varela, Michelle Liuzzo, Elia Khalaf, Yaiseli Gonzalez and Santiago Eli Lastra. (All students above are in the art direction program.)
2015 Winter Quarter Top Dog Winner
Project Title: The Unicycle Chronicles: Illustrations, design, and story by Elia Khalaf Photography Credit: Alexandra Barberio
Elia’s book was a first quarter quarter assignment that brought life to characters from another world. Read his story.
Gold Paw Winner
Project Title: Medieval times dinner and tournament. Project Credits: Santiago Eli Lastra – AD and Yaiseli Gonzalez – AD
Gold Paw Winner
Project Title: Nature. Project Credits: Michelle Liuzzo – AD
Gold Paw Winner
Project Title: Be Kind. Project Credits: Ricardo Varela – AD
Gold Paw Winner
Project Title: Nude. Project Credits: Elia Khalaf – AD
Perfect Fit
I peel out of you
Content to feel the relief
That release in my legs and hips
You’ve marked me, like you always do
Your indentations visible like train tracks on my skin
A sign that my body was held perfectly in place all day
I struggle to get you off of me
My movements are rapid as I jerk with you still on me
You grip my ankles and take my socks with you
My legs are bare as I shutter in bliss
I am reminded that you are a perfect fit.
Gold Paw Winner
Project Title: Perfect Fit. Project Credits: Chanae Reed – CW