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Toolbox nabs three District ADDY awards

In addition to Toolbox Studios’ excellent showing at the local level back in February, we also recently brought home three 2011 District 10 ADDY® awards for our publication and website design work:

                Sales Promotion: Packaging Design

                Anti-workbook, Leader Guide and DVD Set

                Client: sparkhouse re:form curriculum

 

                Collateral Material: Publication Design

                Anti-workbook, Leader Guide and DVD Set

                Client: sparkhouse re:form curriculum

 

                Interactive Media: Consumer Website

                USAA www.garagebandplayoff.com website

                Client: USAA 

 

About the ADDY® Awards

As the world's largest advertising competition, the ADDY® Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world. Annually, over 40,000 entries worldwide compete at the local, regional, and national levels.

 

AEP Awards Gala

Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition managing editor Krishnan Anantharaman, left, and Toolbox Studios creative director Paul Soupiset at the 2011 Association of Educational Publisher’s (AEP) awards gala in Washington, DC.

Read the article here: http://toolboxstudios.com/flash/#/news/2011/82/

Toolbox makes list of “The Ten Most Dependable Web Designers of Texas” for second consecutive year

For the second year in a row, Toolbox Studios was named one of “The Ten Most Dependable™ Web Designers of Texas” as featured in the March 2008 issue of Texas Monthly. The list, compiled by independent research and publishing company Goldline Research, represents firms across the state that were evaluated and ranked along various criteria (number of professional staff, number of accounts won/lost in the last 12 months, number of years in business, grievances and complaints against the company, etc.)  One of the most popular magazines in Texas, Texas Monthly has a paid circulation of 300,000 and is read by more than 2,500,000 people each month—one out of seven Texas adults.

U-TURN Magazine and the U-TURN Podcast win national design awards

Last night, Julie Finlay picked up three Distinguished Achievement Awards for U-TURN and the U-TURN Podcast at the Association of Educational Publishers conference in Washington, D.C. Honors include:

• U-TURN, whole publication design — 2006 editions
  
• U-TURN, article design “Art Cause: Gone to Ghana”, Spring 2006
  
• U-TURN Podcast, special audience technology, audio/visual

U-TURN also was a national finalist for the organization’s top honor, the Golden Lamp Award.

Words of praise from the San Antonio Museum of Art

Last week, SAMA Director Marion Oettinger, Jr. had this to say about working with Toolbox:

“As a non-profit arts institution, the San Antonio Museum of Art needs to maximize every marketing and communications opportunity. We know that a vibrant, always-evolving, easy to navigate Web site is the way to reach the largest audience possible with our message. After the success we experienced with Toolbox’s advertising campaign and Web site for our exhibition Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits, we knew they were the company we wanted to redesign our own site. Toolbox exhaustively researched our profession and helped us position the Museum in a more nationally competitive arena, elevating the SAMA brand. The administrative backend is so easy to update, multiple members of the SAMA staff are able to use the site as their primary form of communication, whether in image reproductions, public relations, educational outreach or retail. The web design team at Toolbox has helped us become more technologically forward-thinking as well – we anticipate growing the site even more with their creative support.”

Kudos from Paloma Blanca Mexican Cuisine

Restaurant owner Richard Peacock, Jr. had this to say about working with Toolbox to brand his popular restaurant:

“The team at Toolbox has helped re-image our restaurant in such a creative, fresh way—even our long time customers now think of us in terms that they never used to, which is no small feat. Further, Toolbox has brought a consistency to all of our advertising that was sorely lacking, whether it be it website, billboard, television or direct mail. I firmly believe that the quality our marketing materials has finally risen to equal the quality our product—our double-digit sales growth would appear to back this up.”

“The team at Toolbox has helped re-image our restaurant in such a creative, fresh way—even our long time customers now think of us in terms that they never used to, which is no small feat. Further, Toolbox has brought a consistency to all of our advertising that was sorely lacking, whether it be it website, billboard, television or direct mail. I firmly believe that the quality our marketing materials has finally risen to equal the quality our product—our double-digit sales growth would appear to back this up.”

Youth Specialties praises Toolbox

San Diego-based Youth Specialties is a company specializing in niche spirituality titles for youth and youth workers. Last year Toolbox delivered 29 unique concepts that resulted in four new book jackets and a box set containing a DVD, complementary training curriculum and participant’s guide. Last week, Jay Howver, publisher at Youth Specialties, had this to say about working with Toolbox:

“Toolbox is one of our favorite design firms to work with, always producing an excellent product. Their attention both to small details and large ideas keeps us coming back again and again. They have consistently delivered quality work on time and they are always a pleasure to work with.”

Youth Specialties is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Zondervan.

San Diego-based Youth Specialties is a company specializing in niche spirituality titles for youth and youth workers. Last year Toolbox delivered 29 unique concepts that resulted in four new book jackets and a box set containing a DVD, complementary training curriculum and participant’s guide. Last week, Jay Howver, publisher at Youth Specialties, had this to say about working with Toolbox:

“Toolbox is one of our favorite design firms to work with, always producing an excellent product. Their attention both to small details and large ideas keeps us coming back again and again. They have consistently delivered quality work on time and they are always a pleasure to work with.”

Youth Specialties is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Zondervan.

Toolbox adds to its ADDY collection

On Saturday night, at a packed Pearl Stable, Toolbox received two Silver ADDYs — one for a series of U-TURN Magazine covers and another for the AT&T Cotton Bowl poster — as well as a Bronze ADDY for the Oscar Williams Photography logo.

The 10 Most Dependable Web Design Firms of Texas

In this month’s issue of Texas Monthly, Toolbox appears on the list of “The 10 Most Dependable Web Design Firms of Texas”. Reprints of the listing are available for clients.    

Rob Simons selected for “40 Under 40”

[originally posted on the Toolbox Staffblog on 12/18/06]:
The San Antonio Business Journal has selected Rob Simons as one of the 2006 winners listed in this year’s “40 Under 40” special feature. The listing features 40 profiles of people the Business Journal believes are “rising stars in the community” — people who show significant career advancement at a young age, commitment to their field and community involvement. Rob was chosen from a field of around 275 nominees.