Awards & Distinctions

Fall River Energy Enterprise, Fall River City Hall

George Delany and the City Hall Exhibit, Fall River MA

Locally Produced, Sustainable, Alternative Energy, the F R E E Initiative

Across a wide range of business and institutional settings, we have endeavored to distinguish our clients in the marketplace:

Corporate Identity

• Japanese Publication: "Famous Symbols & Trademarks of the World"
• American Corporate Identity, 2 volumes
• Print Magazine Regional Design Annual
• Advertising Club of Greater Boston

Graphic Design Excellence

• Ad Club of Greater Boston
• New York Art Director's Club
• Women's Ad Club of RI
• ID Magazine, Designer's Choice [2x]
• American Institute of Graphic Arts
• Graphis Poster Annual
• Examples of graphic design in permanent collections of 3 leading paper companies

Poster Design

• 2009, American Flag Posters entered into Prints and Photographs Division of Library of Congress

• "Statue of Liberty Collector's Edition" posters included in Reagan and Iacocca art collections
• Also in collection at National Monument, Ellis Island
• HIV-AIDS poster in Smithsonian, National Medical Archive Collection
• Also included in graphic design collection of Museum of Modern Art, NYC, and in the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta (CDC)
• HIV-AIDS poster included in end-of-century MOMA exhibit and review of American Art (Art from 1960-2000)

• Graphis Poster Annual, 2007, Gold Award, "The Best in International Visual Communications" "American Flag Poster Portfolio"

Distinctions

• Teacher, instructor, and mentor; Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, New England Institute of Technology

• Columnist; AdCom, monthly trade publication; contributions submitted on topical professional subjects
• Brown Venture Forum; guest critic

• Case Judge: Twice selected a judge in national CASE design competition (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education)
• IDSA Designer: Twice selected to design award certificates given by Industrial Design Society of America to country's top industrial designers at annual IDEA (Industrial Design Excellence Awards)
• 1998/Illustration: Two original illustrations selected for inclusion into Simon + Schuster catalog of contemporary art
• Guest lecturer: Massachusetts College of Art (3x); U-Mass, Dartmouth
• Gii Awards Judge: 3x Served as judge in awarding organizations for demonstrated excellence in melding networking technology to imagination to create new societal models pointing toward the future [Global Information Infrastructure Awards]
• Other graphic and fine artwork included in many corporate and private exhibits

Other Honors

• First place, State of RI film competition ("Flavors")
• First Prize, Providence Art Club: Open painting competition, nude oil on masonite, "My Stockbroker"
• Third Prize, International Engraving Competition (Set of 7 original works)

• Manhattan International Arts Festival, "Art in Healing" 2007, "Two Great Commandments" one of fifty selected for on-line exhibit from world over

DBA a subsidiary of aaaForay, Inc., brand-building; identity design, development, expansion and implementation in Providence, RI, also Taunton, Fall River, and Boston, Massachusetts. Specializing in conceptual and practical graphic design and marketing strategy, new media, digital photography, video production, and illustration/painting; new product development, our American Revival™ and Never Forget posters.

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