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At the CADC Awards Show in New Haven Thursday night, Taylor Design was recognized for the following projects: Gold awards for the Whisky Stones website and Sarah Lawrence Magazine; Silver awards for Taylor Design Calendar, Keep America Beautiful Annual Review, and Sarah Lawrence College Freedom Riders poster; and awards of excellence for our 24/7 Main blog, Victoria Amory Cooking Sauces packaging, MasterCard at the Movies poster, Williams-Mystic viewbook, and Mount Sinai “Science & Medicine” magazine. Great job Hannah, Mark, Steve, John, Vaughn, Steph, Ryan, and Chris!

Dan was selected for the Connecticut Creatives’ The 25 List 2012, honoring the state’s top creative professionals. The dinner and awards banquet was held at the New Haven Lawn Club on May 28. From left to right: Vaughn Fender, Steve Habersang, Hannah Fichandler, Mark Barrett, Dan Taylor, Chris Yerkes, Ryan Crane, Steph Mullins, and Laura Croft. Connecticut Creatives is a forum that brings together the community of designers, writers, programmers, and photographers working in Connecticut.

Team Taylor Design participated in the RFR 5K Run on May 17 in Stamford.  It was a great day for a great cause, with over $170,000 raised for the Boys & Girls Club of Stamford. Our team consisted of Adrian Allen, Mark Barrett, Ryan Crane, Mike DeRepentigny, Steve Habersang, Kieran Mulvany, Packie Mulvany, Clem Pascarella, Traci Pascarella, Aleks Taylor, Chris Taylor, Dan Taylor, and George Vibien. Team Taylor Design finished 27th out of 104 teams, with Packie (18:32), Steve (23.28), and George (23:43) finishing with the best times. Start training for next year.

After a spring search, we have selected Mariah Lamb as our 2012 summer intern. She is currently in her sophomore year as a Graphic Design major at Rochester Institute of Technology. In addition to building her skills with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, she also has a passion for typography, calligraphy and photography. Mariah was the recipient of the RIT Creativity and Innovation Scholarship in 2011. On the sports side, she is a member of RIT’s varsity swim team. Originally from Ballston Spa, NY, she will spend this summer in Newtown, CT.

The Lake Champlain Basin Program, based in Grand Isle, VT, works with government agencies and private organizations from New York, Vermont, and Quebec to coordinate efforts that benefit the lake’s water quality, fisheries, wetlands, wildlife, and cultural resources. On Friday, April 20th, Steve, Chris, and Dan drove seven hours north to this beautiful spot to meet with the team at LCBP and begin the redevelopment of the program’s website. We’ll be revising the site structure, user experience, user interface, and CMS, with the goal of delivering a first class digital tool that will help the organization educate more people, gather additional volunteers, and protect the future of the Lake Champlain Basin.

On Wednesday, April 11th, from 6:30pm-9:00pm, we opened up our studio to the members of the Connecticut Art Directors Club. With our twenty year anniversary as the backdrop, we shared the stories behind our work—from MasterCard to Keep America Beautiful to Sarah Lawrence College—and added a few pearls of wisdom on adapting to change, work/life balance, hiring good people, creating a solid work culture, and finding new clients. It was a wonderful evening filled with good friends, clients, and partners.

Our good friends at Printech invited Taylor Design, along with several of their clients, to a Sound Tigers hockey game on Tuesday at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. We enjoyed the evening from Printech’s private suite and watched the home team bounce back from a two goal second period deficit for a hard-earned 5-4 victory over the Worcester Sharks. Storm, the team’s mascot, stopped by the box for a visit and posed with Chris Taylor, Dan Taylor, Chris Yerkes, Mark Barrett, and John Rudolph.

On Tuesday, March 13, we closed the office early to visit “Centuries of Progress: American World’s Fairs 1853-1982” at the Bendel Mansion Gallery at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center. The basic theme of these fairs was progress, showing the latest and greatest in foods, clothing, music, architecture, home products, autos, and aircraft. Of particular interest to our designers were the posters, invitations, tickets, and ads from the 1890’s – 1930’s, which showcase typographers, illustrators, and designers at the top of their game. To see more samples, visit the Special Collections Department of the University of Delaware Library, which holds a nice variety of source materials from the World’s Fairs held in the United States.

Our entry “Freedom Riders,” a poster created for a Sarah Lawrence College film, concert, and lecture series, was selected as a winner in the CQ27 competition. It was designed by art director Hannah Fichandler and illustrated by Jon Contino. All winners will be exhibited in the next issue of Creative Quarterly, on the newsstand Summer 2012. The winners and runner-ups work will be posted on the CQ Online Gallery in Summer 2012.