With the recent announcement by the New York Newspaper Advertising & Marketing Executives that winners for their annual Advertising Awards had been announced, the awards season for news design in my neck of the Empire state officially came to an end. Calls for entries went out during a particularly dreary fall and winter of last year, and the wet and icy weather that came to characterize one of the harshest winters in recent memory in northern New York would also characterize my first effort at snatching a little glimmer of professional glory for myself.While my entries in the page design category for awards given by the New York Newspaper Publisher's Association (NYNPA) and New York Press Association went unlaureled, I was recently given word of my placing third in the Innovative Advertising category of the New York Newspaper Advertising & Marketing Executives (NYNAME) 2011 Advertising Competition, effectively talking me down off the emotional ledge I had heretofore placed myself upon.
The winning piece was a poster honoring Plattsburgh's semi-pro football team, the North Stars. Advertising was sold to local businesses wanting to show their support on the back, and the 12"x18" poster was inserted into a full run of the paper, soon finding its way onto the walls of cafes and sandwich shops all over town. The placing in this category is especially sweet. Not only does it place me in with a group of designers who are the first ever to win this award, but the Press-Republican's circulation group was among the most competitive. There's nothing like accomplishing a first-ever in a brand-spanking new category to take the edge off an otherwise slow awards run.
Unfortunately, I've also just discovered tonight what a mess my page layout looks like when viewing this blog in Internet Explorer. Like most sensible individuals, I exclusively use firefox to browse the web, and had no idea that Blogger and IE version anything don't get along well; if Blogger's support forums are any indication, they likely won't be anytime soon. C'est le blog, eh?
I'll be back in a few with a crop of new stuff I've been needing to post. If you really can't wait, you can see my slideshow on NewsPageDesigner.
