Education Strategy

FOOTPOOL CRAZE SWEEPS MIAMI AD SCHOOL

South Beach school unveils brand new indoor Footpool field to the sound of vuvuzelas

Once again, Miami Ad School has made a bold advance in the science of leisure-time activity. This time, that advance comes in the form of FOOTPOOL, a Soccer/Pool hybrid that was born from a desire to fuse the athletic artistry of soccer with the lowbrow excitement of pool.

It’s played like this: You kick the balls (bigger than pool balls, smaller than soccer balls) with your feet like soccer, but the gameplay is like pool. The field has four corner pockets & two side pockets like a traditional pool table. Now even the most athletically challenged student can feel like a Pele/Minnesota Fats hybrid. A

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At the each quarter’s end, all Miami Ad School Base School locations choose a Top Dog winner. The Top Dog is judged to have been the most outstanding piece of creative work executed during that quarter. Once again, we need your help. Please help us pick which students will be the Global Top Dogs for the fall quarter of 2010.

There are two parts to the competition. One is The People’s Choice, the winner of which will have earned the greatest percentage of the votes cast in this poll.

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On July 24, 2010, thousands of people uploaded videos to YouTube as part of “Life in a Day,” a project created to document on film a single day of life on earth.

One of those people was Miami Ad School San Francisco copywriting student Justin Peele, and his submission “Wallet Full of Dreams” was selected from the over 80,000 clips (and 4500 hours of footage) submitted.

The project, conceived by directors Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald, had its premier today and will be exhibited thoughout 2011. It is also an Official Selection for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival which begins tomorrow in Park City, Utah.

Visit the Life in a Day channel on YouTube for more information.

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For more than a decade, the Miami Ad School has been one of the most influential institutions for the ad industry. No other portfolio school has brought forth more award winners.

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