NIA wins 8 awards in two international design competitions

    /24-7PressRelease/ - PLEASANTON, CA, June 21, 2007 - Today, the Hermes Creative Awards and the Communicator Awards Print Competition both named winners in their prestigious international competitions, and NIA Creative was honored with a total of 8 awards between each program:

Hermes Creative Awards:

# Platinum - Genentech Mechanism of Action Animation; Category: Video/Medical
# Platinum - Quorum Website; Category: Microsite
# Gold - NuGEN Corporate Branding; Category: Company Branding
# Gold - NIA Creative Print Portfolio; Category: Design/Other
# Honorable Mention - Sun Infrastructure Desktop Demo; Category: CD-ROM

Communicator Awards - Print Competition:

# Honorable Mention - FrontRange ITSM Brochure; Category: Product Promotion
# Honorable Mention - Kaiser Healthy Living Poster; Category: Poster
# Honorable Mention - Antec Print Ad; Category: Magazine Ad

Creative Director Chris Finetti notes, "We are so proud of the work we do...Too often, we overlook entering competitions like these because we get so busy with projects and deadlines. In fact, we haven't submitted entries to any awards competitions in 2 years. But seeing the results we received today, we remember how gratifying it is to receive industry recognition from our peers and look forward to future opportunities to see how we stack up."

For more information or to see these award-winning projects, contact Chris Finetti at [email protected].

About The Hermes Creative Awards:

The Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals involved in the concepting, writing and design of traditional materials and programs as well as emerging technologies. Entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies, web based innovators and freelancers. The Hermes Creative Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals - an organization consisting of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, media production, web and free-lance professionals.

About the Communicator Awards:

The Communicator Awards is a leading international awards program recognizing creative excellence in the communication field. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards holds annual competitions for audio in October, video in November, and print media in February. The Communicator Awards provides winners and their clients the recognition they deserve and gives communications and creative professionals proof and validation that their work is outstanding and highly regarded by their peers.

About NIA
NIA was founded in 1996 and has grown to become one of the most trusted go-to partners for technology, medical/biotech, public/non-profit, financial service and consumer firms around Silicon Valley and the U.S. More than 225 major clients have turned to NIA for their branding needs, including Adobe, Apple, Baxter BioScience, Biogen Idec, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Genentech, Hitachi Data Systems, Honeywell, Kaiser Permanente, Nikon Precision, NuGEN Technologies, Philips, Samsung, Sun Microsystems, Themis and Zhone Technologies. NIA has also worked with venture bankers to create more than 75 IPO road show presentations. With a complete range of world-class services all under one roof, NIA is able to offer brand consulting, creative design, video production, advertising, animation, interactive media development, event production/marketing and public relations at a single agency. For more information, visit www.niacreative.com

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