Matt goes to Manhattan - gets big gong

Reported on campaignbrief.blogspot.com, presumably from AIM's PR dept, ( because it was so fucking long) and seriously edited by us:

"Matt Shirtcliffe, Creative Director of AIM Proximity, Auckland, will be awarded the Irving Wunderman Award for lifetime creative achievement at the 28th Annual John Caples International Awards Show on March 2, 2006 at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Pavilion. Shirtcliffe was selected by the Board of Directors of the John Caples International Awards based on the “tremendous quality of his creative work produced over his career.”

Shirtcliffe began his career as a copywriter in 1994 at Colenso (later Clemenger BBDO) in Wellington."

Not a lot of people know this, but he actually began his career in the Colenso media department. But he wanted to be a writer, so he asked and niggled and tried out until they gave him a spot in Creative. Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke. Well done mate.