2011 Brand New Awards, Book and Online Versions Now Available
The 2011 Brand New Awards storefront is now open. The winners are available for consumption in book form and as a full-on, iPad friendly website — both of which you have to pay for, yes. All details are in the link above. Thanks all for your patience on this.
Call for entries for the next edition of the Brand New Awards will open early January.
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2011 Brand New Awards, Pre-Order
After a slight delay on our part, the 2011 Brand New Awards book is now in stock. We are still finishing up a proper storefront and photographing the book so all we have to convince you is the preview video above. In the meantime, we are going to have a short pre-order period until Wednesday October 17 with 20% off the retail price of $34.99 (so a total of $27.99 right now). Pre-orders will start shipping at the end of next week.
NOTE: This year there will not be an iPad app. Nor the year after that, until further notice. BUT there will be a paid-access website, with very similar design and functionality as last year’s app. The cost will be $15.00. You can see a sample static page here.
Big preview image of the book cover below (or after the jump).
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‘Filles De Nuit’ by Steve Lyon for Treats! #2 Fall 2011 (NSFW)
Steve Lyon shoots Judith Bedard, Kamila Wawrzyniak, Zhanna Havenko and Roza Abdurazakova in ‘Filles De Nuit’ for the second issue of Treats! Magazine Fall 2011. NSFW.
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley by Simon Emmett for GQ UK July 2011 (Outtakes)
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Some outtakes from Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s shoot with Simon Emmett for the July 2011 issue of GQ UK.
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Leave a comment2011 Brand New Awards, Winners
The winners of the 2011 Brand New Awards have been posted on the Winners page of the BNAs’ site. Judging took place this past Friday, March 23, 2012 here in Austin, TX — pictures of the day can be found in this Flickr set. Read on for additional notes, thoughts, and a peek at the big-ticket winners.
Entries
598 entries submitted
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561 Professional / 37 Student
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281 Logos
29 Logo and Identity Animations
117 Basic Identity Applications
145 Comprehensive Identity Programs
26 Guideline Documents
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351 U.S. entries
34 UK entries
213 entries rest of the world
Winners
86 total winning entries
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77 Professional / 11 Students
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66 selected by Judges / 20 selected as “Salvage” by UnderConsideration
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29 Logos
9 Logo and Identity Animations
17 Basic Identity Applications
28 Comprehensive Identity Programs
3 Guideline Documents
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44 U.S.
6 Canada
5 Australian
4 Brazil
4 UK
23 rest of the world
Note
Due to a last-minute conflict, Paula Scher’s client could not attend. In her place, Brett Wicken’s and Ammunition Group’s client from Autodesk, Creative Director Michiel Schriever, stepped in.
Observations
The judges were pretty tough and very consistent among them. There were a lot of zeroes and ones (out of five possible votes) handed out. A few fives here and there and other fours, almost no threes.
The Logo category was weaker than last year. There wasn’t a collective “wow” from this category, best represented by the fact that the judges decided to not award a Best of Category.
In regards to logos, there was also a big discussion if it’s a disservice to judge logos on their own, without at least one application. Something we will consider for next year.
As usual, the Comprehensive Identity Program category was a monster of fun and awesomeness. The winners displayed a tremendous understanding of extending an identity.
For some reason, both this year’s and last year’s judges had a hard time grasping the Logo and Identity Animation category, not being exactly sure as to how to evaluate it. Might need a judge next year more close to this kind of work, as I find it to be one of the most exciting categories.
The student entries were not only few but, for the most part, lacking in oomph. We will seriously reconsider keeping the competition open for students next year.
In the end, the winners represent a fantastic selection of work from around the world and we are thrilled with the results.
Special Awards
Once again, there were very few nominations for the two Special Awards for Design Effectiveness and Client Leadership and since only those entries that win are considered the less than a handful that had a nomination did not stand out enough to be awarded. This might be the last year we attempt these two awards.
On Salvage Selections
Since the cutting floor was pretty full, we found a lot of entries that we — Armin and Bryony of UnderConsideration — felt deserved to be included, just as we did last year. We pulled in double the amount of last year and we showed all of our selections to the judges — funnily enough, they all mostly agreed that those projects deserved to be in while they pushed back on two or three of our selections, which we ultimately left in.
Next
We will be working on producing the annual in the next two or three months. This year we will again publish a book, an iPad app, and this year we will be testing a paywall website (for those who don’t have an iPad or prefer to see things online).
Sneak Peek at the Top Winners
Best of Show (1 of 2) + Judge’s Pick: Andrew Blauvelt
Saint Bartholomew’s Church by OCD | The Original Champions of Design
Comprehensive Identity Program
Best of Show (2 of 2) + Judge’s Pick: Michiel Schriever
New Theatre by Interbrand Sydney
Comprehensive Identity Program
Judge’s Pick: Paula Scher
The Jerusalem Season of Culture (JSOC) by Open
Comprehensive Identity Program
Best of Category + Judge’s Pick: Brett Wickens
Own identity by IS Creative Studio
Basic Identity Application
Best of Category + Judge’s Pick: Ellen Glassman
Advanced Ice Cream Technologies by Landor Associates
Comprehensive Identity Program
Best of Category
Current TV by Wolff Olins
Logo and Identity Animation
Best of Category
“Traklin” (TV Channel) by Roy Sturdy from “Shenkar” School of Design and Engineering
Student
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Comcast slows the flood of video customer losses in Q4 2011
It’s not often that a company announced it lost 17,000 customers in a quarter and that’s considered good news, but for Comcast that’s exactly the case when it comes to cable TV. Compared to the 135,000 customers lost in the same period a year ago (which was also lower than the year that preceded it), it’s a slowing of a trend over the last few years and if you believe cord cutting is taking a toll on Big Cable, could indicate that is tailing off as well. That’s not all of the good news however, as it also increased the number of customers picking up extra services like internet and phone. We didn’t get too many tidbits from the earnings call, but did hear a mention that it’s investing in new cloud-based software for its TV boxes — hopefully that means we’ll see that new Xfinity TV guide roll out widely sooner rather than later.
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Canon announces middling Q4 2011 earnings report, president steps down
Looking forward to 2012, the cameramaker expects net income to increase to ¥250 billion, which would mark the second straight year of less than one percent growth. This forecast is lower than what many analysts expected, though Canon based its projections on assumptions that the yen will continue to rise against both the dollar and the euro, making Japanese exports more expensive in Western markets. It was against this backdrop of disappointment that company president and COO Tsuneji Uchida announced his resignation today, effective March 29th. The 70-year-old Uchida will be replaced by 76-year-old chairman Fujio Mitarai, with Uchida slipping into an advisory role. Coming off a year that saw a devastating tsunami in Japan and supply chain disruptions in flood-ravaged Thailand, Canon underscored its cautious outlook for 2012, in a statement: “The future remains increasingly uncertain amid growing concern over a global economic slowdown.” Find Canon’s full report at the source link, below.
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2011 Brand New Awards, Now Accepting Entries
The 2011 Brand New Awards are now open and accepting entries. Quick things to know: You can submit everything online this year and save on shipping costs / Your entries are still going to be printed and judged in person, so we are charging the smallest print fee possible / Judges: Paula Scher and her Citibank client, Brett Wickens and his Sears client, and Andrew Blauvelt / Main deadline: March 2, 2012 / Early-bird pricing deadline: February 3, 2012 / Follow @bnawards.
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Nielsen’s 2011 media usage report: conventional TV still rules, but online viewing is skyrocketing
2011′s come and gone, but Nielsen’s media report on the year remains. The latest figures from the year that was have been published, and conventional television is still riding a wave of popularity. We’re told that 290 million Statesiders are still ogling at least one television, with around one in three American homes (35.9 million for the mathematicians) owning four or more of the things. Across the wire, some 211 million Americans are online, with a staggering 116 million aged 13 and up accessing the mobile web. Other figures include 253 million DVD players owned, 162 million game consoles, 129 million DVRs and 95 million satellite subscribers. There’s also some 111 million people watching timeshifted programming, and Netflix itself has four times the average viewing time per person, per month compared to the boob tube. Concerned about mobile? Android’s US market share (again, according to Nielsen) is pegged at 43 percent, while the iPhone has 28 percent and RIM’s BlackBerry OS claims 18 percent. Hit up the links below for more charts, numbers and things that your grandmother couldn’t possibly care less about.
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Igor Vasiliadis shoots a series of daguerreotypes featuring Katia Elizarova, Sasha Sergeeva, Ekaterina Morozova, Masha Kalinina, and Irina Zhuravska for the #5 Fall 2011 issue of Depesha Magazine. Styling by Galina Smirnskaya. Sally Mann would be proud.
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