Saturday night saw some of the Smoke team frock up for the annual Preston James Fund charity ball.
The black tie event attracts a number of familiar faces and raises funds to go towards helping to support initiatives in Paediatric Intensive Care.

Smoke is friends with the fund and has helped out with ball invites, web site design and video content. The new web site, designed by Smoke and built by Limelight Digital is due to go live in a couple of weeks.
So stay tuned…

The ‘Drivers Plea’ rail safety campaign become an award winner on the 17th of September 2010.
‘Drivers Plea’ crossed the line ahead of a number of other worthy nominations to win the 2010 state award for Corporate Social Responsibility.

So off we went to Melbourne on the 13th of October for the National AMI Awards.
The competition was tough and the weather was typically Melbourne, and that’s about all I will say about our trip…
CHECK OUT DRIVERS PLEA CAMPAIGN

The “Student Protection Program” staff inservice DVD training pack that Smoke worked on with Brisbane Catholic Education has received a 2010 Child Protection Week (CPW) Award in the Education Initiative Category. The award ceremony was held at Parliament House on Thursday 2 September 2010 and the Hon Phil Reeves MP, Minister for Child Safety and Minister for Sport, presented the awards.
Thanks Phil and well done to the team for creating a product that is helping to make a difference.
For more information on the training pack contact Gerard at Smoke.

The tremendously successful ‘Drivers Plea’ rail safety campaign, a joint collaboration between QR and Smoke Creative, has received recognition as a finalist in the Corporate Social Responsibility category for this year’s Australian Marketing Institute Awards.
The campaign which attracted in excess of $500,000 worth of nationwide media and PR will be recognised at the awards ceremony on Friday 17 September for Queensland State finalists. Winners go on to be nominated for the national awards later this year.
VIEW DRIVERS PLEA CASE STUDY

Who would get up at 4am, meet at the bottom of a bridge in the dark and run 10kms, all on a Sunday?
…More than 37,000 people apparently.
Well done to Matt and Damien for completing the Bridge to Brisbane and showing the rest of us up for the sleep loving, TV watching unfit individuals we are.

2010 finish times:
Matt PLACED: 1028 TIME: 0:45:20
Damien PLACED: 2540 TIME: 0:49:34

The new Smoke website is live so take a look around!

Check back soon for the new reel.