Big Book of Green Design

March 2009

Design Source was honored with inclusion in the Big Book of Green Design, (Crescent Hill Books) for the Mugnaini client gift box. This is the second recognition for this project from a publishing company featuring books on sustainable design.

CLIENT OBJECTIVE:
Mugnaini Wood-Fired Ovens wanted to offer their valued customers a useful, beautiful thank you gift filled with oven essentials.

SOLUTIONS:
Design Source Creative embraced the original objective and transformed it into a sustainable idea.

  • We created a re-useable, multi-purpose gift box

  • Designed an elegant, lasting reminder of the company, inspiring brand loyalty

  • The box was made with pine from sustainable forests

  • The hinges were made from repurposed auto steel

  • The brand wrapper was printed on recycled stock, using vegetable based inks

  • The box was as much of a gift as the contents inside

4th Annual Davey Awards

October 2008

Design Source won Silver Davey Awards for both the Alibi wine label and for the Page & Pio Construction identity design. The Davey Awards is an international creative award focused exclusively on honoring outstanding design work from the best small firms worldwide. The incredible quality of entries again proves that creative excellence, fresh ideas and great conceptual execution is a hallmark of the best small agencies and firms.

38th Annual Creativity Award

September 2008

The trademark developed for Alibi wine was selected as a Silver Medal Winner in the 38th Annual Creativity Awards. The Creativity Awards is touted as showcasing the best in global graphic design and advertising.

2009 Market Smart Design

November 2007

Sustainable Design Solutions
Design Source Creative is honored to be selected for publication in the 2009 Market Smart Design reference book for the Mugnaini client gift box. Market Smart Design is published by Harper Collins and focuses on market segmentation.

Design Source Wins 3 Major Awards

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37th Annual Creativity Award

November 2007

Design Source was proud to be selected as a Gold winner in the 37th Annual Creativity Awards, one of the longest running international advertising and graphic design competitions, created in conjunction with the pioneering and prestigious Art Direction magazine. Each year a professional panel of judges choose the best designs, advertisements, websites, and commercials worldwide to be reproduced in the 400-page Creativity Awards Annual—an enduring record of the history of graphic design. The Design Source stationery package was the selected winner for that category.

3rd Annual Davey Award

October 2007

Design Source won the Silver Davey Award for its own Design Source stationery package. The Davey Awards is an international creative award focused exclusively on honoring outstanding creative work from the best small firms worldwide. The 3rd Annual Davey Awards recognize a diverse and accomplished pool of creative work.




Accolades

September 2007

"The Big Book of Graphic Design 3" represents the most diverse, best-in-class design works, picked for their ability to inspire ideas and creative thought. Design Source's winning entries for branding, packaging and print designs for inclusion in the book were for La Filice Winery, Whole Grain Natural Bread Co., and Design Source's identity and letterhead. Carter and his design reference books are highly regarded in the industry for recognizing diverse, creative design work. The book will be published early 2008.