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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Bill Warrington’s Last Chance
One of our studio’s favorite writer-collaborators, James King, recently won the “2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award,” beating 6,500 others for the top prize. James’ novel, “Bill Warrington’s Last Chance,” has just been published by Viking, an imprint of the Penguin Group, and is on sale now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders. Watch the trailer which was designed by our studio. A review by Deborah Donovan of Booklist says it all: “Part road odyssey, part coming-of-age tale, King’s novel achieves the exact right balance of humor, redemption, and reconciliation.” It’s a wonderful book and I encourage everyone to buy a copy!
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Work Selected for Graphis’ 100 Best Annual Reports 2011
Our submission “My World Tomorrow, Keep America Beautiful’s 2008 Annual Review” has been selected to be included in Graphis’ 100 Best Annual Reports 2011. Graphis, the International Journal of Visual Communication, represents the best internationally produced work in various disciplines from the previous year. The book will be published in January of 2011.
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Go West Young Man
For the month of July, designer John Rudolph and his sidekick Kristen are traveling west and won’t stop until they reach California. To chronicle their adventure and share their experiences with friends and family, John created the “We Can’t Stop-America” blog. Check it out.
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Connecticut Art Director’s Club Awards Competition
Taylor Design is pleased to announce that it received nine awards at the 2010 Connecticut Art Director’s Club Awards show at the Boathouse, Hartford on Thursday, June 17. We received a Judges Award for the 2009 Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup Report, a gold medal for the Taylor Design “Good Moves” Calendar, three silver medals for the 10th Anniversary Video for InsightExpress, the 2009 Keep America Beautiful Annual Report, and the Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Magazine, and excellence awards for the Stonehill College Student Life Brochure, the 10th Anniversary Campaign for InsightExpress, the Developing Futures publication for GE and Stamford Public Schools, and the Taylor Design “Lemon” promotional mailers.
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Taylor Design Hosts its Open House
We celebrated the move to our new office space with a festive picnic-pa-looza, along with many of our clients, partners, children, parents, and friends. It was great to talk with everyone face-to-face, which is increasingly rare nowadays. Steve designed the promotional materials and Nora, Laura, and Mary Ellen coordinated the event. Excellent job all!
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Going Hollywood
Our studio served as the set for the filming of the movie “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” a British film directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly. Adapted from American author Lionel Shriver’s 2003 novel of the same name, a mother recounts the events leading up to and following her son’s massacre of students and teachers at his high school. The film is due to release in 2011.
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Team Taylor Design Finishes 12th in the 2010 RFR Corporate 5K Run
From a field of over 1,500 competitors, John Rudolph placed 99, Mark Barrett placed 173, Dan Taylor placed 231, Mike Derepentigny placed 285, Clem Pascarella placed 344, and Aleks Taylor placed 650, earning team Taylor Design 12th place in the male team competition of the 17th Annual RFR Realty Corporate 5K Race. This year’s event was extremely successful and the organization was able to raise over $100,000 to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Stamford.
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Communicating through Graphic Design
Sales tools that our studio created for MasterCard Advisors was featured in the new book “Communicating Through Graphic Design.” Developed for high school students, it’s a comprehensive guide to graphic design, helping them understand the design-rich world around them. The book is published by Davis Publications (www.davisart.com) and written by Kevin Gatta (http://www.gattago.com) (a former colleague of Dan’s at Pushpin Lubalin Peckolick) and Claire Mowbray Golding.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Welcome Aboard Stephanie
Taylor Design has added Stephanie Mullins to its team. A 2009 graduate of the University of Connecticut’s Communication Design program, Steph was chosen to work in the UConn Design Center her junior year. During college, she worked as an intern at the Dornenburg Group in West Hartford and Alexander Isley Inc. in Georgetown. After graduation, she joined Group C in New Haven, working on book design and website development for Pickard Chilton, CAMA, and Saint Thomas More.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Graphic Design & Advertising 26 Competition
Taylor Design received two awards in the 2010 Graphic Design & Advertising 26 Awards Competition. The projects honored include the 2009 annual report for Keep America Beautiful and the alumni magazine for Sarah Lawrence College.