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Hilbert College’s Viewbook was awarded silver in the Individual Student Recruitment Packages category of the 2010 Circle of Excellence Awards issued by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

“Are Books Making Us Illiterate? How e-Reading Can Save Civilization,” a talk by New York Times writer and columnist Virginia Heffernan, kicked off the National Museum Publishing Seminar in Washington D.C. This provocative topic set the tone for lively discussions, formal and informal, concerning the relationship between print and online sources, and the impact of new media on the traditional practices of museum publishing.

Fairfield University has published its summer alumni magazine with Skelton Design as creative consultant. The issue features “The Romeo and Juliet Project,” a yearlong exploration of the Shakespeare classic from a range of scholarly perspectives, culminating in a staging of the play at Fairfield.

We designed a pair of compatible books for the Phillips Collection to supplement two summer exhibitions – one showcasing Richard Pousette-Dart’s “Predominantly White Paintings” and one on the paintings of Robert Ryman, “Variations & Improvisations.”

And, speaking of the Phillips, the Visitors Guide we designed received an Honorable Mention from the 2009 AAM Museum Publication Design Competition.

If you’ve been to Washington DC lately, you may have seen the street banners and subway dioramas we’ve designed to promote The New York Avenue Sculpture Project for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The large sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle have been installed along New York Avenue, adding color to an otherwise dull median strip. These environmental pieces, along with the print and ad materials we created for the project as been received by the client with rave reviews: "…I appreciate the work you did on the invitations and other projects related to the opening of the New York Avenue Sculpture Project. Your designs were wonderfully different from anything we had sent out before. And everyone was thrilled with the results!" —Susan Fisher Sterling, Director, NMWA

The spring Honor Roll issue of NJIT Magazine jumped on the “green” bandwagon with a feature on campus-wide sustainability.

The summer issue of “Breakthrough,” the newsletter of Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine, leads with a discussion of one doctor’s quest to improve the quality of life for brain cancer patients.

The Phillips Collection’s spring magazine previews two exhibitions running simultaneously next summer – the “white paintings” of Richard Pousette-Dart and the work of Robert Ryman.

Baltimore Clayworks is celebrating its 30th anniversary! We designed a logo especially for the occasion and a unique microsite that encourages past students, faculty and friends to post images and tell stories of their experiences at Clayworks.