Adirondack Life Named IRMA Magazine of the Year

Congratulations go to Adirondack Life for winning the prestigious Magazine of the Year Award from the International and Regional Magazine Association. This award, which goes to IRMA magazines with circulations up to 75,000, is the association’s top honor. Adirondack Life also won in 11 other  categories;all issues from 2003 were judged.

Lane Press customers placed in all but 5 of the 22 categories, from the  coverage of public issues to photojournalism.  Other Lane Press winners who were recognized at IRMA’s annual conference in September were Down East with three awards for writing  and illustration; Chesapeake Bay and Offshore with five awards for writing and illustration; New Jersey Countryside for a reader service article; Oklahoma Today for writing and cover design; The Iowan for an historical feature, and South Carolina Wildlife for a special focus article.

CIO takes home American Business Media's Grand Neal Award

IDG's CIO Magazine, bested a record 1,282 other entries to win the Grand Neal at the 50th Annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards for its February 2003 article “All Systems Down.” CSO, also published by IDG, was a notable winner and received awards for Best Single Article, Best Subject-Related Series of Articles, Best Regularly Featured Dept./Column, Best How To, Best Single Theme and Best Single Issue in its class.

Alumni Publications Land Admissions Marketing Report Awards

Admissions Marketing Report awards are presented by HMR Publications Group, a national source for marketing news and information in the fields of admissions and healthcare.

The alumni publications mentioned below were printed by Lane Press:

• Kean University, Gold Award, External Publication
• Assumption, Merit Award

Crystal Awards of Distinction Winners Announced

Both CANO Energy Pipeline and Business Miami, won Crystal Awards of Distinction for Magazine/Institution and Award of Distinction for Cover Design, while the latter was also recognized with an Honorable Mention for Interior Design.
The Communicator Awards is an international awards competition founded by communication professionals to recognize excellence in the communication field.

PITT Magazine Holds Record Level of Awards

PITT Magazine, received Matrix awards for five top stories and Honorable Mentions for two top stories from the Pittsburgh Professional Chapter of the Association for Women. PITT now holds 19 journalism and magazine awards, the most in its 18-year history as a four-color publication.

CFA Magazine Makes the Leap

 CFA Magazine was recognized by the Society of National Association Publishers with a Silver Excel Award for Most Improved Newsletter to Magazine, which was the first issue Lane Press  printed for CFA.
Other Lane Press winners were:
AMC Outdoors, Gold editorial award for "Fighting Words" article;
Currents, Silver Award for "Storm Watch" article and a Bronze Award for Design Excellence; and Mechanical Engineering, Bronze Award for General Excellence

Dartmouth Medicine Takes Home Top Writing Award

Dartmouth Medicine won a top writing award for its Summer 2003 issue and received an overall Award of Distinction.

The AAMC/GIA Awards for Excellence recognize outstanding work by members of the Group on Institutional Advancement and members of their staffs. The awards acknowledge the most creative and effective approaches used to promote academic medicine in the United States through alumni, development, public relations and marketing programs and products.

CASE Awards 17 Medals to Lane Press Scholastic Publishers

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) received 3,100 entries from 630 institutions for this year’s Circle of Excellence Awards Program. There were 342 medals awarded to 182 member institutions.

Lane Press customers took home 17 medals in seven out of 40 categories:  Visual Design in Print,  General Interest, Periodical Staff Writing, Best Articles of the Year, and three categories with the Special Program Publications Packages.

Lane Press customers won Gold Medals for the General Interest Magazine category. Taking home three of the six awards were Cornell Alumni Magazine, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and Middlebury. Vanderbilt took home a Silver Award in this category, and Smith Alumnae Quarterly and Brown Alumni took home Bronze Medals.

Another three took home CASE Silver Medals for Visual Design in Print:  Northeastern University, Princeton and Yale Medicine. Brown University also won two CASE Gold Medals for Best Articles of the Year.

Lane Press Wins Two Gold Ink Awards

PrintMedia and Printing Impressions magazines, co-sponsors of the Annual Gold Ink Awards, announced that Lane Press won two Gold Ink Awards. Lane Press entered Art + Auction and Sculpture magazines, both of which won pewter awards in the tabloid category and the latter in the specialty web magazine category.

This year’s Gold Ink Award winners were chosen from nearly 1,600 entries submitted within 46 different categories. Winning pieces surpassed their competitors based on print quality, quality of color separations, technical difficulty and overall visual effect.

Congratulations to all of the industry award winners who print with Lane Press.