Ogilvy Kosova wins yet another Silver at the 2008 Eurobest Advertising Festival in Stokholm in the Environmental Design Category. The 2008 Eurobest Silver Trophy happily joins his other sister-awards in the trophy shelves of Ogilvy Kosova; three other ones being from: Cannes Lions (Gold) in Cannes-France, Golden Drum (Grand Prix) in Portorož-Slovenia, and Clio (Silver) in Miami.
After grabbing a Silver Clio in Miami, Florida; a Gold Lion, in Cannes France; and a Golden Drum Grand Prix in Slovenia; NEWBORN gets listed as a finalist at this year’s London International Awards that will be held on Monday, November 10th at the Hippodrome venue in London.
NEWBORN wins a Golden Drum Grand Prix at the 15th Golden Drum Advertising Festival in Portorož, Slovenia.
On June 17th Fisnik Ismaili (Executive Creative Director) of Ogilvy Kosova receives a phone-call late at night from Cannes Lions telling him he has to fly out early in the morning to Cannes to collect Gold for the NEWBORN.
There’s few things in life you can say you’ve done, or rather there’s few things you can add to your “Things I want to do before I reach 30″ list - Gold in the Permanent Environmental Category at Cannes Lions would have topped that. Gold in Cannes comes to Prishtina and joins its buddy Silver Clio received few weeks back in Miami, Florida.
The team at Ogilvy and all who worked on this monument that represents a day etched deep in history of Kosova are proud to say that they were once part of this art piece that moved hearts, and still electrifies chills on my neck.
Writing & talking about this feat seems not to fulfill my appetite towards NEWBORN. Simply enjoying the moment and smiling back in pride seems nice enough to simply say ‘wow’ with a cute little question mark for an intonation.
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Cannes Lions: NEWBORN wins Gold
Clio Awards: NEWBORN wins Silver
Ogilvy Kosova has been shortlisted in the 49th Annual Clio Award Festival, the world leading awarding body for advertising, design and interactive. NEWBORN is in the short list of contenders in Design Category. (www.clioawards.com)
Every year, over 30 000 best adverts, campaigns, designs and websites compete for a Clio, and only a handful receives one.
It is said that “What Oscar is to movies and Grammy is to music, Clio is to advertising”. It is a great honour for us to reach this far.
Some of our team members will attend the Clio Festival in South Beach, FL, on 14-17 May, hoping to come back with a gleaming Clio statue. 
Keep your fingers crossed, root and cheer for NEWBORN’s latest international success.
FLORIDA, HERE WE COME!!!
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NEWBORN is a monument marking the Kosova Declaration of Independence Day, 17 February 2008.
Made of steel, weighing about 9 tonnes, NEWBORN is 3m high, 22m long and 1m thick.
First to put their signatures into NEWBORN in black permanent markers were Kosovar President, Fatmir Sejdiu, and Prime-Minister, Hashim Thaçi, at 18:30 (GMT+1), 17 Feb 2008, followed by thousands of other people celebrating on the day, until 24:00.
NEWBORN has become a historical symbol and is now under the protection of the Government of Kosova.
It took 10 days for the creators, Ogilvy Kosova, to give birth to NEWBORN, from idea to final product.
NEWBORN has become the shrine for the team who created it. Every one of us has to see it at least once a day in order to recharge ourselves with that feeling of peace, excitement, love and pride all intertwined in one.
NEWBORN is growing up and enjoying the breeze outside. I haven’t passed along there in awhile, but to refresh my memory I plan to walk down there and see if anything has changed. I know there’s few spray-painted marks done by some few weeks back, which remind me that nothing is invincible. We must work and protect all that we stand for.
Cheers.
Roughly two weeks after the Declaration we’re inviting all to gather around the NEWBORN and party on through drinks and fine tunes!!
Location: te NEWBORN
Hour: 20:00
Day: Saturday, March 1st
Now that NEWBORN is a week old, we’re thinking of what to do next with it - as far as its permanent location goes. Our discussion on this topic is an ongoing thing, thus we have created a separate page on this website where we’re asking you to discuss your ideas on this topic.
Where do you think NEWBORN should end up?
Click on [Discussion] for your follow-up.
NOTE: To post your comments please click on the Discussion link above.
It has to be “huge“, it must be particular, unique even better.
Everybody wanted to be included, everyone wanted to participate in a way or another just to feel it from near enough so to say loudly and proudly “I even was part of it!“.
(foto credit to Bashkim Hajrizi)
Our NEWBORN seems to have raised very much attention, gained a lot of reputation. We are proud of ourselfs for this creature, even I personally feel proud that I helped in in one way or another. It’s something that can never be forgotten.
Joy and happiness is floating above us as those yellow-helium-filled balloons flew up on Prishtina’s sky that night.
I hope that we, you, everybody, in particular people of Kosova enjoy this newborn life within their newborn country.
In a nutshell, on behalf of NEWBORN today we’ve created a new page on this blog on which we are going to include every possible edge we can be aware of where NEWBORN sculpture has been posted, filmed, mentioned at least, let that be a whole article, a small paragraph and/or even a single word though.
Hence, here it is, visit the Newborn on the Media page and enjoy exploring.
Update: seems that the term NEWBORN was very quickly absorbed by the people and every one who displayed something about Kosova that day referred to it usually with this term.
Google proves it more if you wanna know 
Google It! to see for yourself.
There has always been something that tightened us together and made us inseparable.
Our flag never touched the ground, red & black has perpetually been highly appraised.
On the independence day the same happened, hundreds of people kept the flag off the ground and carried it with kilometers.
We put a sign on memory (foto credit to Muja).
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