Category Archives: Awards

What Advertising Agencies Spend for Awards

In all, there were 9,795 entries for the ad awards, at a total cost to the agencies of $3,507,860. The average cost of an entry was $358. The database does not account for the interactive or design entries to the One Show, just the advertising entries. Last year the One Show had 26,000 entries from [...]

National Magazine Awards- Photography Nominees

The nominees for the National Magazine Awards were just announced (here). There are 3 categories for photography and never any surprises (National Geographic has won the most for photography – 7 times).
PHOTOGRAPHY: This category recognizes excellence in magazine photography. The award honors the effectiveness of photography, photojournalism and photo illustration in enhancing a [...]

Pictures Of The Year International- Magazine Photographer Of The Year

POYi Announced their Magazine Photographer of the year on Friday. You can see the other winners (here) and still more to come as the finish the judging process. You can actually watch and hear the judging live (link on the front page) which is an education in itself.
First Place goes to Uriel Sinai of Getty [...]

How to make a contest submission

I was talking with Heidi Volpe (former AD at LA Times Magazine) about some of the things she’s working on in the right now (we have projects we’re working on together so we talk a lot) and I asked if she would write about them from time to time to give people a different perspective [...]

American Photography 24

The American Photography – American Illustration party was last night (no, reports yet report here). The American Photography book has always been a very prestigious publication to be in. Most Photo Editors and Creative Directors keep a reference copy above the desk. I would always thumb through the last couple copies with my other photo [...]

ASME Best Magazine Covers of the Year Award

American Society of Magazine Ediors has an award for magazine covers (here) and surprisingly the finalists barely have any coverlines. Maybe they should publish the newsstand numbers so we can see how these fare, compared to the normal slathering of bombastic coverlines.
That Texas Monthly cover Platon shot of Willie should go in the hall of [...]

World Press Photo Winners Talk About Their Images

Incredible feature on the World Press Photo site where you can watch a video of the photographer describing the story behind their award winning shot (here).

The beauty of it all, in my mind, is the design. The video of the photographer occupies a small space in the lower left corner allowing the image to dominate [...]