Six Feet Wasn't Enough

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About

We LOVE brains, especially people with the right kinds of brains.

Hey, there! We’re the ICF Next Creative Studio, a full-service agency that delivers the most innovative, mind-blowing marketing and communications solutions for clients across the public and private sectors.

We are a rapidly growing team of right brains. We collaborate. We raise our craft. We celebrate each other’s successes and ideas that didn’t get the chance. Since 2017, the 3rd Option Awards have given new life to the team’s most ambitious and under-appreciated work. It’s communications that show we really are ride-or-die creatives.

As is the way of things in advertising, some pieces get to live their lives to the fullest out in the real world—on billboards, screens and kitchen tables.

Others get buried too early, have to claw away the dirt, and fight for a second chance. This show is an opportunity for those reanimated ideas to be recognized.

Categories

We all love our work, sometimes to death.

Choose from one of seven beautiful plots to “hold” your loved ones. Show off how scary good your ideas can be. The scarier good the better.

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Graves
turned up empty

Advertising

Examples: Campaign, experience, out of home, poster, online banner

Branding

Examples: Logo design, program/product name, tagline

Collateral

Examples: Brochure, infographic, fact sheet, toolkit, sales sheet, rack card, pop-up banner, booth, postcard

Digital

Examples: App, website

Elements of Advertising

Examples: Photo, illustration, cinematography

Multimedia

Examples: Video/animation, gif

Social Media

Examples: Campaign, tactic

Judges

Meet who’s going to
appraise the undead.

Cindy Auten

Cindy is a senior partner in ICF Next Government and serves as the lead for our communications line of business. She’s an experienced communications and marketing leader with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry.

Nancy Caplan

Nancy leads ICF’s energy portfolio marketing team for utilities, focusing on the evolving realm of customer engagement. She and her team work to enhance the customer experience while instilling a sense of urgency to participate in energy management.

Vickie Gogo

Vickie is a senior partner in ICF Next Government focused on multicultural communications. She develops campaigns that address health disparities and reach underserved and low-income/low-socioeconomic status populations, particularly African Americans.

Sabrina Blaiklock

Sabrina is a vice president of marketing and engagement in ICF’s commercial energy practice. She has extensive experience designing, leading, and implementing innovative brand and direct response campaigns using cutting-edge marketing strategies.

Event Info

The living and the living dead are going to collide Thursday night.
The party will be to die for.

WHEN: Thursday, December 9, 2021
4:30–6:30 p.m. EST

WHERE: Virtual

Zoom Background

Whoa, that’s not your living room! Choose one of the virtual backgrounds below to spice up your POV during the show. Need help? Check out Zoom’s helpful virtual background guide.

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Call Details

Meeting ID: 893 4787 0673 Passcode: 266627

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Contact Us.
We won’t bite.

Questions? Email ThirdOption@icfnext.com.

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