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While we're always happy to win awards for our work, our recognition as a Davey Awards Gold Award winner for our self-promo book (along with three additional Silver Awards), makes this accomplishment all the more exciting. We are looking forward to having the book showcased on the International Academy of the Visual Arts web site in the near future. This also made me realize that it might be interesting to explain our approach to selecting the competitions we participate in and how we choose the individual projects that we enter.

A few years ago this was done as guesswork. We submitted our favorite pieces and simply hoped for the best. Now we have gotten to the point where the beginnings of a strategy has developed for our awards entries. In one of my next blog posts, I'll explain the steps we use to evaluate these contests and submissions and hopefully this will provide some guidance for designers who are just starting out to see just one way you can develop a thoughtful approach to entering design competitions.