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APA International Customer Publishing Awards 2011

Winners:

  • Best B2B title – The Review for Gemalto
  • Best use of photography – ‘Danger man’ in Code Red for Travelers

Highly commended:

  • Best finance title – Quintessence for BNP Paribas

Association of Photographers' Awards 2011

Summit International Awards 2011

  • Platinum Award for the marketing effectiveness of the Ernst & Young Performance programme

IoIC Awards 2011

Class winner:

  • Best illustration, graphic or conceptual image – ‘The pseudo-Darwinist conspiracy’ by Richard Wilkinson for RSA Journal

Awards of excellence:

  • Best publication for members – Securities & Investment Review
  • Best internal magazine (up to four issues a year) – Code Red for Travelers
  • Best design (magazine) – Code Red for Travelers
  • Best design (magazine) – RSA Journal
  • Best redesign (magazine) – Landscape for the Landscape Institute
  • Best writing (feature/profile) – ‘Linked out?’ by Aleks Krotoski for RSA Journal
  • Best single campaign – Everywoman
  • Best change communication – Everywoman

IoIC Communicator of the Year Awards 2010

Class winner:

  • Best writer – George Bull

Awards of excellence:

  • Best editor – Frances Hedges for RSA Journal
  • Best editor – Pam Foden for Quality Edge for Visit England
  • Best photographer – Johanna Ward
  • Best agency team – The Aon Vision team

APA International Customer Publishing Awards 2010

Winners:

  • Best B2B title – The Review for Gemalto
  • Best membership title (not-for-profit, charities and associations) – RSA Journal
  • Best use of illustration – ‘How bad biology killed the economy’ in RSA Journal, by Jörn Kaspuhl

IABC Gold Quill Awards 2010

Finalist:

  • Communication Skills: Publications – The Review for Gemalto

IoIC Awards 2010

Class winner:

  • Best feature/profile (print or online) – RSA Journal, ‘How bad biology killed the economy’ by Frans de Waal

Awards of excellence:

  • Best internal magazine (up to 4 issues a year) – RSA Journal
  • Best interactive media – Aon Vision
  • Best illustration/graphic/conceptual image – Securities & Investment Review, ‘A new Christmas carol’ by Cameron Law
  • Best public sector reporting – GOSH

CiB Communicator of the Year Awards 2009

Class winners:

  • Best designer (online) – Joe Gardiner for Aon Vision and the Landscape Institute website
  • Best agency team – The Barclays Globe team

Award of excellence:

  • Best editor (online) – Rick Pearson for Aon Vision

APA International Customer Publishing Awards 2009

Winners:

  • Best B2B title – The Review for Gemalto
  • Best finance title – Liquid for HSBC

Highly Commended:

  • Best membership title (not-for-profit/charities/associations) – Securities & Investment Review for the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment

CiB Awards 2009

Class winners:

  • Best internal email newsletter – Aon Vision
  • Best conceptual photo – Landscape, Food issue front cover

Awards of excellence:

  • Best internal news magazine (up to 4 issues a year) – Hiscox News
  • Best internal news magazine (up to 4 issues a year) – The Market for Lloyd’s
  • Best internal news magazine (more than 4 issues a year) – The Globe for Barclays
  • Best internal news magazine (more than 4 issues a year) – Jackpot for Camelot
  • Best feature – Securities & Investment Review, ‘It’s crunch time’ by Christopher Brown-Humes
  • Best feature – RSA Journal, ‘Living in the shadow of illness’ by Havi Carel
  • Best news reporting – Landscape, ‘Reality bites’ by Tim Coulthard
  • Best designed internal magazine – Unilever Magazine
  • Best designed internal newsmagazine – The Buzz for Barclays
  • Best redesigned internal newsmagazine – The Globe for Barclays
  • Best corporate/promotional campaign – Branding suite for Lloyd’s
  • Best publication for members – RSA Journal
  • Best annual report (private sector) – Abraaj
  • Best annual report (public sector) – GOSH

CiB Awards 2008

Class winners:

  • Best corporate brochure – KPMG Audit Guide
  • Best public sector brochure – Design Of The Times (part of the Design Council)
  • Best redesigned magazine – Let’s Talk for Alliance & Leicester
  • Best external newsletter – Hiscox News
  • Best conceptual photo– RSA Journal, ‘Growing places’ image

Awards of excellence:

  • Best conceptual photo – Hiscox News, ‘Sculptures’ image
  • Best conceptual photo – KPMG, ‘Fire breather’ image
  • Best e-mail newsletter/ezine – Aon Vision
  • Best external magazine – Masterclass for Ernst & Young

APA Effectiveness Awards 2008

Special commendation:

  • Most effective membership title – RSA Journal

Highly commended certificate:

  • Most effective finance title – Let’s Talk for Alliance & Leicester
  • Most effective membership title – Securities & Investment Review

APA Creative Awards 2008

Highly commended certificate:

  • Best online innovation – Planners’ toolbox on itvmedia.co.uk

MemCom Awards 2007

Highly commended certificate:

  • ARA of the year – World Economic Forum

CiB Awards 2007

Awards of excellence:

  • Best imagery – Landscape for the Landscape Institute
  • Best corporate or promotional brochure – Everything you ever wanted to know about audits but couldn’t be bothered to ask for KPMG
  • Best redesigned newsletter – Unspun for the Berkeley Partnership

APA Creative Awards 2007

Nominations:

  • Most creative landing page – itvmedia.co.uk
  • Most creative front cover – Landscape for the Landscape Institute

NMA Effectiveness Awards 2007

Shortlisted:

  • Best business-to-business website – itvmedia.co.uk

APA Effectiveness Awards 2007

Highly commended certificates:

  • Most effective membership title – RSA Journal for the Royal Society for the Arts
  • Most effective integrated marketing solution of the year – Aviso+ for JPMorgan

CiB Strategy Awards 2007

Nominations:

  • Best experienced editor – Andrew Strange
  • Best experienced editor – Alex Perchard
  • Best new editor – Ben Stevens

BSME Awards 2007

Nomination:

  • Best editor of a contract business title – Alex Perchard

CiB Awards 2006

Awards of excellence:

  • Public sector annual report – Great Ormond Street Hospital Trustees Review
  • External magazine – RSA Journal

IVCA Clarion Awards 2006

  • IVCA Clarion Award – Serco Corporate Responsibility Report

CiB Communication Skills Excellence Awards 2006

Award of excellence:

  • Best new editor – Tim Coulthard, Jackpot magazine for Camelot

APA Awards 2006

Highly commended certificates:

  • Most effective membership title – Securities & Investment Review for the Securities & Investment Institute
  • Most effective membership title – RSA Journal

CiB Awards 2005

Awards of excellence:

  • New publication – The Mag for MFI
  • Best writing for the web – In-Touch for LogicaCMG
  • Best illustration or graphic – Landscape for the Landscape Institute
  • Special issue of a regular publication – The Mag for MFI
  • Best printing of magazine or news magazine – Jackpot for Camelot
  • Annual report – Antisoma
  • Best public sector annual report – GOSH Annual Report

CiB Communication Skills Excellence Awards 2005

Class winner:

  • Best new editor – Alex Perchard, RSA Journal for the Royal Society for the Arts

Award of excellence:

  • Best experienced editor – Joe Gardiner

CiB Awards 2004

Class winners:

  • Best external magazine – CIS real for Co-operative Insurance Society
  • Best brochure/booklet design – Entrepreneurship for the World Economic Forum
  • Best redesign/relaunch – read for Abbey

Awards of excellence:

  • Best new publication – Landscape for the Landscape Institute
  • Best feature – by Alison Swersky for CIS real
  • Best experienced editor – Jill Hopper for CIS real
  • Best experienced editor – Joe Gardiner for Landscape

CiB Communications Strategy Awards 2004

  • Best editor – Joe Gardiner for Landscape

APA Awards 2004

  • Best internal magazine – read for Abbey

CiB National Awards 2003

Class winners:

  • Gold Award, Editor of the Year – Jill Whalley, CIS real
  • Professional Skills, Best Experienced Editor – Jill Whalley, CIS real
  • Class winner: Internal magazines – NQ, Norwich Union
  • Class winner: print management – Logica Annual Report 2002

Awards of excellence:

  • Internal news magazine – Team Safeway
  • Best illustration/graphic – CIS real, ‘roadsigns’

CiB National Awards 2002

Awards of Excellence:

  • Best design – The Voice brochure for the Association of Investment Trust Companies (AITC)
  • Best use of imagery – Deutsche Bank’s CIB Compass magazine
  • Best new editor – its the news magazine for the AITC

Awards of excellence:

  • Brochure design – The Voice, the AITC
  • New and redesigned publication – Deutsche Bank’s CIB Compass magazine

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