We won an American Design Award!

Thanks to an excellent client (Massachusetts 4H) who kept an open mind, a fantastic writer (Julie Roads - Writing Roads) who brought me in right at the beginning of the project, and (ahem) my design, I won an American Design Award for this poster:

From GDUSA:

2008 AMERICAN GRAPHIC DESIGN AWARD WINNERS
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS

This year, roughly 1,000 pieces were presented in our annual from among more than 10,000 entries, the fifth straight stunning year in which this milestone level of entries has been exceeded. Slowly but surely, over four decades, our Annual has become a meeting place for the best and the brightest.

Media diversity abounds: print and collateral, package design and in-store graphics, advertising and sales promotion, invitations and announcements, direct mail and catalogs, magazines and books, broadcast and film and — surprise, surprise — more internet and interactive pieces than ever. Diverse, too, are the organizations and clients: Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups, consumer and business-to-business ventures, political and religious organizations, governments and trade associations, universities and cultural institutions.

Moreover, the winning pieces come from many of the established creative minds and organizations of our time, and even more who are striving to excel, to gain recognition and to find a deserved place in the sun. This is a particularly satisfying mix, since GDUSA is tempermentally welcoming and accessible to a broad range of work and voices in an often insular industry.

View all of the winners here.

Thanks to Julie, for brainstorming this idea with me, and especially to the client, for letting us run with the idea.