View from the Zoo

This ladybug family was honored this week with an award of excellence from the Society of News Design’s 30th annual competition, one of 32 awards garnered by La Presse, placing this French language broadsheet in fifth place in the world, behind respected papers such as the New York Times.

La Presse is  one of Montreal’s four dailies – you read right, FOUR dailies in this city – 3 published in French and one in English. You can see all 32 of the winning projects, including four more of mine, in Saturday’s edition (February 21st). To see all the 971 awards (out of over 10,000 entries from 42 countries) you’ll have to wait until the book comes out this Fall.

My «Lovebutton» cards and stickers that I ordered from moo.com are here and ready for distribution. The minicards are very versatile – I use them as business cards, as gift tags, as bookmarks or simply as portfolio samples. The jellybeans were delicious too. White ones were coconut  flavored, the red ones, sour apples and the pink ones tasted, well, pink (bubblegum or rootbeer or…).

And here you can see how the stickers turned out.