Design Edge is happy to announce the 2012 Regional Design Awards judges, who will evaluate all the entries (except those from their own geographic region). This year's Reggie judges bring a wealth of design expertise and experience to the task. They include: 



Representing British Columbia and Yukon: Chris Dallin, director, Branding & Design, DDB Canada, Vancouver, B.C. Dallin brings 20 years’ experience to the judging panel. His resumé also includes Ken Koo Creative and Hangar 18 Creative Group. 



Representing Alberta and Northwest Territories: Ryan Kelly, creative director of RED the Agency in Edmonton. In his time at RED Ryan has helped build the agency into one of Western Canada’s largest independents. 




Representing The Prairies and Nunavut: Catharine Bradbury, president, Bradbury Branding & Design Inc. in Regina. Catharine has won well over 200 international, national and regional design awards and has been at the helm of her prosperous design company for 23 years.

Representing Ontario (K, N, P postal codes): Leslie Miles, creative director of Gordon Group Marketing + Communications in Ottawa. With over 20 years in the industry, Leslie specializes in developing strong, high-impact brands for organizations in both the public and private sectors.



Representing Ontario Horseshoe (L postal code): Peter Gabany, creative director of Limelight Advertising & Design in Port Hope, ON. Limelight grew from a creative incubator into a hotbed of creative and strategic thinking. Peter is experienced in strategy, creative, and conversion. 



Representing Toronto (M postal code): Dave Watson, creative director of design, North America at TAXI North America in Toronto. Over the last 10 years, Dave has created award-winning work for national and international clients. 



Representing Quebec: Barbara Jacques, creative director of Identica Branding and Design (Cossette Communications Group Inc.) in Montreal. In 2004, Barbara co-founded Hero agency where she was able to sign many different brands. Cossette bought her agency in 2007 and now at Identica she guides a multidisciplinary branding and design team.



Representing Atlantic Canada: Tom Murphy, creative director of Target Marketing & Communications Inc. in St. John's. Tom has won hundreds of national and international awards over the past 25 years.



To read longer bios of each judge and view their photos, visit the judging page on the Reggies website. 

Entries will be judged on originality, creativity, craftmanship, effectiveness, and overall experience. 

The earlybird date for Reggies' entries is Feb. 3. So far the Ontario Horseshoe region is leading in entries, with B.C./Yukon not far behind.

Design Edge Canada is proud to present its third annual Regional Design Awards. Last year’s awards were the best yet – with a 30% increase of entries over the previous year!

This year we’ve got two new categories:
• Campaigns (you can submit between 4 to 8 elements as a group)
• Mobile design (phones, tablets & e-readers)

This year we’ve streamlined the submissions process:
• Work submitted in five of the categories can be submitted online.

This year we’ve upped the benefits for participating:
• Each entrant will receive 10 free photo credits courtesy of sponsor Bigstock
• Best of Region winners will be profiled on the Reggie Honour Roll featured on the Reggie Facebook page.
• Plus a whole host of other benefits

The only awards program of its kind in Canada, the Regional Design Awards sees designers and design studios from the same creative community compete in 14 categories, with a chance to be named Best in Region.

You compete within your own geographic region. Top designers from outside your region will judge your work.

Canada is blessed with great talents from all corners of the country. Show the rest of Canada what you’re made of. Let’s celebrate the best design from Campbell River to Iqaluit! 

Entries are now being accepted. Click here for entry rules and to start your entry today.

Announcing an exciting expansion of COPA:
COPA+ Digital Publishing Conference
Monday, Oct. 24, The Gladstone Hotel - Limited Seating!

Now in its third year, the Canadian Online Publishing Awards is growing again… this time with an exciting new one-day conference — COPA+ — aimed at the needs of leaders in Canada’s digital publishing industry, and held the same day as the COPAs.

COPA+ will inspire and inform publishers, editors, designers and marketers from the ranks of Canada’s digital publishers, including those from newspaper, magazine, broadcast and digital-only backgrounds. The conference features:

Venue
COPA+ is set at The Gladstone Hotel on Toronto’s hip West Queen West district. As the home of COPA, it’s the perfect space for the first COPA+, with free wireless throughout, relaxed workspaces and networking zones, and delicious food and drink.

Schedule
COPA+ Conference: 9:15 a.m. – 2:15 p.m.
COPA Café & Market: 2:15 – 5 p.m.
Product & Service Demos: 2:30 – 4 p.m.
COPA Awards Ceremony: 5 – 7 p.m.

Speakers
Here’s an initial line-up of confirmed speakers, panelists, moderators and hosts; more to be confirmed:

About
COPA+ is specially paced to allow time for learning, inspiration, networking, and celebration. You’ll likely learn as much from other conference goers as you will from the official presentations. And, of course, there are breaks to give you time to check in with the office, your CMS, your social media and email accounts.

A full Conference Pass gives access to all keynotes, networking luncheon, the COPA Café & Market in the afternoon, and the Awards presentation in the evening, emceed by CBC Radio’s Nora Young, host of Spark, CBC’s leading-edge technology and culture show.

A Conference for You
While the conference landscape is cluttered with events for digital marketers and advertisers, editorial-based publishers have very different—and often divergent—needs and challenges. COPA+ is designed to tackle these issues in an intimate, highly focused setting.

COPA Award participants include Canada’s leading editorial-based digital publishers, including Rogers Publishing, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Edmonton Journal, Transcontinental Publishing, CBC.ca, CTV, St. Joseph Media, and many more including exciting digital start-ups.

For full details, visit the Canadian Online Publishing Awards site.

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TORONTO—Last night, to a packed house at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, with finalists and designers in attendance from across the country, category and Best of Region winners of Design Edge Canada's 2011 Regional Design Awards were announced.

In B.C./Yukon region, Vancouver's Subplot Design took Best of Region for Level Ground Trading Complete Indentity/Packaging. Category winners include Mountain Equipent Co-op, Ion Branding + Design and Industrial Brand. The winner in the student category was Miguel Molina (The Bitter Chocolatier).

In Alberta/NWT, the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada Annual Report designed by Foundry Communications in Calgary was declared Best of Region. Other winners include Pure Vision, three76 Design and Outcrop Communications.

In Prairies/Nunavut the top prize went to COMBINE Design & Communications, of Lumsden, SK, for Building Pride: Saskatchewan Roughriders Centennial Exhibitions.

In the Ontario region, which excludes Toronto and the Golden-Horseshoe, Cayenne Creative in Ottawa came out on top; its entry entitled Public History Corporate website was awarded Best of Region.

In the Golden-Horseshoe region of Ontario, AmpersandAmpersand in Hamilton won Best of Region for Elly Cinder Business Cards. Reggie judge Mark Busse said about the winning design: "There's a whole story here that is told in traditional, classical graphic design..."

In Toronto the Best of Region prize was awarded to Compass360 for the GTAA Annual Report; a special mention was given to Monnet Design for printed pieces done for the Summerworks Theatre Festival 2010. Companies winning multiple categories in Toronto include Taxi 2 and Zulu Alpha Kilo.

In Quebec, Bleublancrouge was the big winner with multiple category wins and the Best of Region award for District Griffin.

And in the Atlantic region, one-man shop HelloDaylight of Halifax took the Best of Region for Ironworks Distillery packaging. Designer Stephen Bishop was on hand to accept his award. 

Complete list of winners & finalists

All New Categories!
Higher Total Prize Credits!
New Winners’ Promotion Program!

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Canadian Newsstand Awards, and we’re shaking things up with more categories, an all-new category system, higher total prize credits and a new consumer-focused winners’ promotion program.

While these are the biggest changes to the Awards since their launch, the Newsstand Awards maintain their unique judging system with 50% of the total scores based on sales percentages, and the other 50% based on creative criteria.

The Canadian Newsstand Awards/Grand prix d’excellence en kiosque honour outstanding achievement in single-copy sales and cover design for English and French-language Canadian magazines published in 2010. Each year the Awards also honour the Newsstand Marketer of the Year.

New Categories:
We’ve overhauled the category system to create more categories and hot competitions! Instead of the previous circulation-size categories, the new categories are based on the subject matter of your magazine. The new categories are: 

Women's Service
Fashion, Shopping & Bridal
News, Business & Celebrity
Home & Decor
Sports & Leisure
Family & Kids
General Interest, Arts, Lifestyle & Regional
SIPs and New Magazine

Each category will have a Silver and Gold winner, and Gold winners receive a $3,000 credit towards newsstand promotions at LS Travel Retail… for a total of $24,000 in available credits, a 33% increase in total prize credits!

Entries Now Open!
Early Bird Deadline: Friday, June 17 
Entry Deadline: Friday, July 8
Awards Event: Fall 2011, Toronto, date tbc

For full details including entry criteria, entry fees and entry forms, visit www.newsstandawards.ca

The Canadian Newsstand Awards are sponsored by LS Travel Retail North America, CMC Circulation Management Association of Canada, Audit Bureau of Circulations and produced by Masthead.

May 11, 2011: Canada’s premier awards program for editorial-based online publishing has further expanded its rich media categories to recognize excellence and innovation by Canadian magazine, newspaper, broadcast and online-only publishers. 

Successfully launched in 2009 primarily for the magazine industry, the Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA) expanded to include newspaper publishers and broadcasters in 2010. Now in its third year, COPA continues to grow and we are excited to announce two new categories in 2011: Best digital edition (replica) and best tablet edition. Also new this year is the addition of Gold and Silver winners in each category.

The COPAs honour the best online editorial and design from both traditional print publishers, broadcasters and the new breed of online-only magazines and newspapers that have no print sibling. Categories include best overall website, best website design, best article, best video or multimedia feature, best smartphone application, along with nine other categories. Over 500 entries were submitted in the first and second year, from Canada’s largest publishing groups to independent publishers. Both 2009 and 2010 receptions at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto were sold out and received national and international coverage.

For the full list of divisions, categories, and winner benefits, visit:

www.canadianonlinepublishingawards.com 

The 2011 entry deadline is June 24 (early-bird June 3). Winners will be announced at the awards reception to be held in Toronto in October. For more information contact:

Doug Bennet
905-625-7070, ext. 233 • dbennet@masthead.ca
www.canadianonlinepublishingawards.com
www.mastheadonline.com

Thanks to these COPA Sponsors:           

Gold Sponsors:            
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC)
CCAB div. of BPA Worldwide
Cornerstone Group

Silver Sponsor:           
Mygazines

Produced By:            
Masthead

TORONTO—The full list of finalists in the 2011 Design Edge Canada Regional Design Awards has been announced. The list includes finalists in 12 categories in each of the eight Canadian regions. Category and Best of Region winners will be announced at the Regional Design Awards Celebration on June 28, 2011 at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto.

Top contenders include: Quebec's Bleublancrouge with eight nominations; LA ads Inc., Taxi 2, Underline Studio and Zulu Alpha Kilo, all Toronto firms and each with seven nominations; two B.C.-based firms, Ion Branding +Design with five, and Subplot Design with four. Other names you will find on the list include Burke & Burke Design, Compass360, Foundry Creative, Hagon Design Inc., Kaboom Communication Design Inc., Oxygen Design Agency and Touchwood Design Inc. Not all of the 12 categories in each region have finalists. The complete list of finalists are posted here.

Tickets for the awards presentation and celebration on June 28 at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto are on sale here.

 

TORONTO — Design Edge Canada, the largest circulation design magazine in the country, is proud to present the judging panel for its second annual Regional Design Awards (dubbed “The Reggies.”). These eight judges, each representing a different region of the country, are among the best and most influential designers in Canada. For full biographies, please visit http://www.designedgecanada.com/awards/details/judging.php

The judging panel includes:

Mark Busse, partner, design director
Industrial Brand,
Vancouver (B.C./Yukon)

Tara Langlois, founder
Plumbheavy Design
Edmonton (Alberta/NWT)

Diane Blahey, creative director
Tom Powell Design Studio
Winnipeg (Prairies/Nunavut)

Ben Hagon, creative director
Hagon Design
Kitchener, Ont. (Ontario, K, N, P postal codes)

Marty Rudman, Creative Director
Pigeon Branding + Design
Oakville, Ont. (Ontario Horseshoe, L postal code)

Jennifer Weaymouth, principal, associate creative director,
Oxygen Design Agency
Toronto (Toronto, M postal code)

Hélène Godin, partner, creative director
Sid Lee
Montréal (Québec)

Tyson Hynes, associate creative director
Trampoline Branding
Halifax (Atlantic Canada)

The only awards program of its kind in Canada, Design Edge Canada Regional Design Awards sees designers and design studios from the same creative community compete in 13 different categories, and a chance to be named best in region. Winners and finalists from each of the eight regions are featured on the Design Edge Canada website and in the awards annual that showcases the best of the best in Canadian design. Winners will be announced at an awards event scheduled for Toronto in June.

Entry deadline is March 1, 2011.

For more information: www.designedgecanada.com/awards

Editor: Nancy Kay Clark
905-625-7070, ext. 280
nclark@designedgecanada.com

Regional Design Award Sponsors:
T1 Group
Creative Niche Inc.
Kallima
Unisource
Flash Reproductions

 

TORONTO-Building on the success of our inaugural awards, Design Edge Canada is proud to present its second annual Regional Design Awards.

The only awards program of its kind in Canada, the Regional Design Awards sees designers and design studios from the same creative community compete in 13 different categories, and a chance to be named best in region. Winners and finalists from each of the eight regions are featured in our awards annual that showcases the best of the best in Canadian design from all corners of the country.

Last year’s contest received nearly 500 individual entries from coast to coast to coast. A panel of eight judges, one from each region, selected a total of 142 finalists for awards in 13 categories, including logo, identity applications, packaging, student work, and more. Of these finalists, 58 winners were chosen.

Is there amazing design being created in your community? Prove it and enter the 2011 Regional Design Awards. Why let the larger provinces get all of the attention? This is your opportunity to show the rest of the country the caliber of talent in your region. Enter now. Entry deadline is March 1, 2011.

Our new panel of judges, one representing each of our eight regions in Canada, will be announced shortly. Click here to see our 2010 winners.

Interested in sponsoring this one-of-a-kind event? Contact us here.

TORONTO - Print World 2010 wrapped up Monday in Toronto and the final day saw colourful "sold" signs popping up on equipment across the show floor like tulips in spring. @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; Print World 2010 wrapped up Monday in Toronto and the final day saw colourful “sold” signs popping up on equipment across the show floor like tulips in spring.

“The show was fantastic for us,” said Michael Steele, partner and sales director of distributor Sydney Stone in Toronto. “It was the most we’ve ever sold off the show floor in signed orders. It far exceeds anything we’ve done before. The show was very well attended with very good quality leads. We’re still closing deals as we speak.”

Sold signs also sprouted in the booths of Agfa, Dixie Reproductions, KBR Graphics, Konica Minolta, NuStream Graphic, Océ, Robert E. Thistle, Scancorp, TEC Lighting, Total Solutions, 3deltaE, Zund and many others.

“Attendance was better than we expected,” said Tony Karg, senior director of business development and marketing for Fujifilm Canada, one of the show’s major exhibitors.

“The leads were exceptional, twice as many as expected,” said George Shaw of Total Solutions, which sold two $50,000 pieces of short-run label equipment.

Print World was the largest printing industry event in Canada this year and with its focus on “the world of shorter-run printing” also attracted an international contingent. China’s largest sheetfed press manufacturer, Hans Gronhi Graphic Technologies, unveiled its new 20” x 26” GH6664B four-colour sheetfed press for the first time anywhere in the world outside China. Hans Gronhi also showed its GH525 14” x 20” five-colour press for the first time in North America.

The strong Canadian attendance was enhanced with visitors from the U.S. and 15 other countries including Italy, India, Colombia and Mexico.

Print World’s expanded conference program drew hundreds of attendees for keynotes, seminars, and panel discussions, including a standing-room only crowd for How to Win the “War on Print,” featuring Domtar CEO John Williams, Transcontinental Printing president Brian Reid, The Globe and Mail’s VP operations Perry Nixdorf, and Frank Romano. Romano, professor emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology and one of the print industry’s most prolific and recognizable experts, also delivered a keynote address sponsored by manroland, and spent all three days at the show.

The show also featured the UpLinX Print Software Theatre, a new Case Study Theatre featuring presentations from successful printers, and Design City, a special zone for graphic designers with the most exhibitors yet.

“We’re very pleased with the turn-out and the success that our exhibitors enjoyed at Print World,” said show manager Sandy Donald. “Our staff worked hard with our partners to make this an event for the benefit of entire print industry. I’d like to thank everyone who participated and plans are already well under way for the next show in 2012.”

The next Print World takes place Nov. 17-19, 2012 at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto. The show is produced by North Island Graphics Media, which also produces the award-winning Graphic Monthly Canada magazine, the Graphic Monthly Estimators’ and Buyers’ Guide, PrintCan.com, PrintCan Express and Design Edge Canada.