Preston-Osborne receives international design awards

11.12.07
Preston-Osborne has received three international design awards from the 2007 MarCom Awards competition.

Preston-Osborne received the highest-ranked Platinum award for the “Bourbon Box Hospitality Gift” entry it designed for the Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau. This promo item was designed to highlight the region’s bourbon distilleries. A Gold award was received for the “Life’s a Trip” Breath of Life Auction Invitation designed pro bono for the American Lung Association. Another pro bono project, the “Wilderness Trace Community Foundation Web site” entry, received an Honorable Mention.

“It’s a nice honor for our creative staff’s talents to be recognized, but it’s most important to work with our clients to develop effective marketing tools they can be proud of, and there couldn’t be anything better or more enticing to market Lexington than a bourbon giveaway,” said Ellen Gregory, chief operations officer at Preston-Osborne. The bourbon giveaway includes samples and a shot glass from four regional distilleries packed in a high-quality cherry finished box with Lexington branded in the wood. An accompanying postcard maps out the distilleries and features a beautiful fall horse farm landscape to give the recipient the full flavor of the Bluegrass.

The MarCom Awards is an international competition for marketing and communication professionals. Awards are submitted from professionals working in concept development, writing and design of print, Web, audio and visual materials and programs. Entries come from public relations firms, advertising agencies, corporate marketing and communication departments, production companies and freelancers.

The MarCom Awards is overseen and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP). The mission of the AMCP is to honor creativity, hard work, excellence and generosity of marketing and communication professionals. AMCP members can submit pro bono entries at no charge.

Winners of MarCom Awards receive certificates and Platinum and Gold winners are eligible to purchase trophies cast by R.S. Owens, the same craftsmen that produce the Oscar®, Emmy® and MTV awards.

To view a sample of Preston-Osborne’s design portfolio online including some of the award winning pieces mentioned above, please visit www.preston-osborne.com/Portfolio.shtml.