Joan Farrell, the National Magazine Group's Design Director, just sent out this note about awards won for art, design and photography in recent months.  Kudos to Joan and all the winners!

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I am very pleased to let you know that the art department has won several awards in three competitions in the past few months. This week we were notified that The American Lawyer has won two awards in the Communication Arts Illustration Annual and has been listed as a finalist for an additional four pieces. This is a national competition with over 7000 entries in eight categories. There were over 1500 entries in the Editorial category, with approximately 300 finalists and only 80 winners. The winners will be published in the CA Annual, coming out in May 2010.

Winners:

The Global Issue: Field Reports (gatefold), October 2009. Series of illustrations by Kristian Olson.

The Company's Lawyers (Bar Talk lead story), October 2009. Illustration by Jean-Francois Martin.

Finalists:

The Global Issue: The Great Game, October 2009. Two illustrations (Cover and inside) by The Heads of State.

The Change Agenda: Testing the Waters, December 2009. Two illustrations by Shout.

The Boy Wonder, June 2009. Illustration by John Ritter.

A Way Forward: Counterterrorism Policy in America, September 2009. Illustration by Aleks Sennwald.



We also won four awards in the Creativity Annual Awards in December, two for editorial photography and two for illustration:

Gold Award: Pro Bono, July 2008. Series of five illustrations by Mick Wiggins.

Silver Award: Saving Anthony Harris, March 2008. Photograph by Max Gerber.

Honorable Mention: Nice Work, January 2009. Photography by Siddharth Siva.

Honorable Mention: 20 Days That Shook the World, November 2008. Illustration by David Plunkert.

The winners will be published in the 39th Creativity Annual coming out this month.


And finally, we were awarded the gold Ozzie award at the Folio Show for editorial photography:

Gold Award: Saving Anthony Harris, March 2008. Photograph by Max Gerber.


Congratulations to everyone on the team for this well deserved recognition of hard work in an extremely competitive field. We should all be very pleased and proud of this impressive showing.

//   Joan