-The Art Directors Club announced the global winners for its 91st Annual Awards (the juries did not select a Black Cube for best-in-show for the second time in the award’s four-year existence). link

-While we’re at it, here are your 2012 Webby Award nominees (announcement video above). link

-Two-time Mother alum Rob Thorsen has now joined up with LBiSyrup as general manager.

-Alex Bogusky doesn’t “miss” advertising as much as he likes to “wax nostalgic” about it. link

-Lance Jensen and crew at Hill Holliday are behind a new campaign for Oxfam that will debut online and on the telly this Thursday. link; link; link

-The late-night shenanigans of ad creatives in Austin have resulted in this Tumblr site. Yes, they will take a man’s glasses. link

-With tax deadline looming, Seattle’s Best is offering the Great American Coffee Refund. link

It appears that international relief org Oxfam has decided to indulge some marketing efforts and as a result, has chosen Boston’s Hill Holliday at its AOR for the American operation. We’ve been told that there was no previous agency involved but Oxfam took notice of HH due to its Liberty Mutual and (RED) work, the latter of which was one of CCO Lance Jensen‘s passion projects when he at the now-defunct Modernista!.

Oxfam spokesperson Rachel Hayes explains in a statement why Hill Holliday was the right choice, saying, “We were very impressed with the way their creative and strategy work together seamlessly.  They have a unique ability to find the simple expression in complex, sophisticated categories. We also appreciate their sense of humility; it’s clear that it’s not about them, it’s about the brand, the work, and the people who support us and those we serve.”

Sources familiar with the matter confirm that Matt Howell and Sebastian Gard of Modernista fame are now headed to Arnold Worldwide. Howell (left), who spent nearly three years at the former agency and served as president before splitting last month, is rumored to be taking the worldwide head of digital post at Arnold. Gard’s new gig wasn’t revealed, but during his year-plus at Modernista!, he served as its director of social media.

As we all know, the aforementioned agency has gone through a bit of an identity crisis shift as of late that has been accompanied by layoffs and Gary Koepke‘s decision to “scale back” at Modernista! earlier this month.

Update: Yep, it’s official. Howell’s new post at Arnold will actually be managing partner, global chief digital officer while Gard joins as SVP, director of social media. Meanwhile, Bob Goodman will take on the role of VP, director of user experience. Like Gard, Goodman served in a similar role at his former employer, which in his case, was user experience director.

In addition to Howell, Gard and Goodman, Arnold has also hired five former Modernista! digital specialists with “expertise in social media, user experience and digital production.” The slew of new of hires will all be based in Arnold’s Boston office.

Update 2: The former Modernista! “digital specialists” signing on with Arnold include Greg Murphy and Matt Karolian, who will assume the roles of social media managers, and Lauren Shea and Brendon Volpe, who join as digital producers.

Well, it looks like one of those who defected from Modernista! (which spies allege was a result of Lance Jensen “cleaning house”) last week has found new employment. Thomas O’Connell, who was with said Boston agency for ten months and served as a director of strategy, has now landed a VP/communications planning gig across the way at Hill Holliday. No word on the job status of his colleague Ross Cidlowski, who also served as a co-director of strategy while at Modernista.

The latter agency, though, does tell us that it’s bringing in a new head of planning, who is expected to start next week and we’re being told is a “very big hire.” We should hear about the official announce on this within the next day or two. Stay tuned.

It fell through the cracks last week, but what the hell,  in case you haven’t heard and are interested, we have the list of who’s playing judge and jury in the 36th Annual One Show, which will take place on May 12 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in NYC. Those of you vying for Gold, Silver and Bronze Pencils, check out who’ll be poring over and critiquing your work come April 3-10, 2011 after the jump. By the way, One Show deadline entry is Jan. 31.

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Last night, the office of Modernista!–which revamped its executive team after a troubled 2010–got word that Lance Jensen, who co-founded the agency back in 2000, is leaving for Hill Holliday to serve as said shop’s chief creative officer. Jensen perhaps is most noted for his work prior to Modernista, specifically the Volkswagen “Drivers Wanted” campaign that was created while he was at Arnold in 1998.

Mike Sheehan, chief exec at fellow Boston-based Hill Holliday, says in a statement, “Over the course of his career, Lance has demonstrated the rare ability to not only create and execute truly resonant work in his own right, but to lead others in the same endeavor. His vision for great work spans every conceivable media and technology, which will invariably help Hill Holliday and our clients continue to grow in the coming years. His body of work is enviable, his talent and taste levels are impeccable, and he’s a genuine and empathetic leader.”

Hill Holliday’s current clients include Dunkin Donuts, Liberty Mutual and Bank of America.