Stressdesign, a Syracuse based design firm specializing in brand communications for business and education clients, recently won ten awards in the Graphic Design USA Design Contest for work completed in 2009. This marks the 8th consecutive year the firm’s work has been recognized by the industry-leading publication in its annual competition.
Graphic Design USA is the news and ideas magazine for graphic design professionals and boasts an estimated monthly readership of over 100,000. In 2008, Marc Stress, founder and design director of Stressdesign, was among 43 design professionals across the country to receive a full-page profile in the publication’s annual “People To Watch” section.
The 10 awards received by Stressdesign represent work for clients such as LC Smith College of Engineering (fall 2006 magazine), Syracuse University Academic Affairs (website design), Syracuse University School of Education (Identity Guidebook) Adagio Salon (graphic identity and website), The college of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University (Migration special event branding), SSK HR (graphic identity, website + brochure), Wind Power Logo (website), MedTech (e-mail newsletter)
Stressdesign was also recognized with an award for its own website, and for Codename MORE™ the stressdesign newsletter, and a special stressdesign promotional piece the “keep your pants on” pewter belt buckle . See each piece included in the award after the jump
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Stressdesign featured on the design firm showcase website, Where We Design.
The founders of Where We Design began the publication because of their love of the design world, especially the people that produce the creatives.
Where We Design is interested in to find out more about the people, designers, artists, architects, freelancers and agencies behind their achievements, and how their working environment has helped them.
In our hometown, Syracuse University Basketball is getting tremendous attention; and for good reason. The Men’s basketball team is having another amazing season, demonstrating the talent of players and coaches. As much coverage as the team is getting in print, online and in television there’s equal coverage in a wearable medium. T-shirts. Orange T-shirts are exploding across the landscape fueled by the success of the team and events like the Orange-outs at the Dome. All this excitement has revealed a disturbing trend in bad typography, the abuse of the apostrophe. The diagram below illustrates the case.
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A big thanks goes out to the WordPress Showcase team for including University Lectures website as a featured site this month on wordpress.org.
Stressdesign selected the WordPress platform as a solution for University Lectures website because of its powerful, flexible open-source architecture.
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As a private Catholic school, Most Holy Rosary wanted to create a professional and clean online presence to inform parents about staff, school happenings and their mission as an educational institute.
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The stressdesign 2010 calendar is now available for download as a letter sized (8.5 x 11″) sheet, or tabloid (11 x 17). Choose the size that matches your favorite printer, download, print and post. Makes a great planning calendar that you can print and bring to meetings, or have in your notebook. Post one in the kitchen… anywhere you need a calendar.
If you have larger printer, this is a high quality PDF that will scale to any size you need. We’ve got 48″ wall calendars here at the office. Print your own at any size, and send pictures of it in use. We’ll post your pictures here.
Download PDF:: Letter sized (8.5 x 11″)
Download PDF:: Tabloid (11 x 17)
Stressdesign celebrates its 10 year anniversary all through 2010. The journey that began on January 21, 2000 has been filled with a tremendous wealth of experiences, achievements, and failures. Over the course of the next year we’ll be celebrating the past 3,650 days with events and special communication commemorating the history of stressdesign.
The past 10 years have introduced us to many great people that have been instrumental to our success and prosperity. We’ve had 8 employees come and go, with the staff at 7 today. Dozens of interns have taken advantage of our internship program and graduated with flying colors. We’ve had the good fortune of helping hundreds of clients develop brand identity programs, many receiving accolades from the press, design community, our clients customers, and our clients.
We’ll be launching an anniversary website, publish a time line and have events throughout the year. One of the first will be an open house in March, details will follow.
Thank you to everyone that has been involved with our success during these past 10 years. We couldn’t have done it without you. We’re looking forward to the next 10.
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