A Few More Awards
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We’re pleased to announce that we’ve won two more design awards, this time courtesy of the fine folks at The Davey Awards. The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, and is the first real awards competition for smaller firms like Novocent Partners.
In 2007, Novocent received a Silver Davey Award for the Robert Edward Auctions catalog from 2007. We did not receive any accolades in the 2008 Davey Awards.
This year, we’re proud to say that we received a Gold Davey Award for the 2008 Robert Edward Auctions catalog. As anyone who follows Novocent is aware, we put a year’s worth of effort into the REA catalog, and it truly is a labor of love for us. We are extremely proud to be recognized by the International Academy of the Visual Arts for our efforts on this amazing project, and we’re even more proud of our friends at Robert Edward Auctions for holding an incredible, record-breaking sale and for putting in so much effort in writing catalog copy and providing us with amazing material to fill up the catalog.
Also this year, we’re honored to have received a Silver Davey Award for the Spring, 2009 issue of SGC Collector magazine. Affectionately referred to as the “Swimsuit Issue” around the Novocent offices, the award-winning issue of Collector contains an outstanding article on the history of pinup art on trading cards, written by our friend Mark Hellman. We have already received a number of MarCom Awards for this issue, as it was a beautifully-designed, well-written example of one of the premier publications in the sports collectibles hobby.
Congrats to our clients Robert Edward Auctions and Sportscard Guaranty!
New Client Update
Published by Al on Tagged News, Novocent ProjectsIt’s been a while since we’ve given you an update, since things have been so busy here at Novocent.
Recently, we began working with Cerebellum Corporation, a producer of high-quality programming for the family, educational, and fitness markets that does business under a number of different leading brand names. Cerebellum needed new, user-friendly designs for their SDLearn and SDTeach e-commerce websites. Novocent was able to overhaul the front end of both sites in a very short time frame, and we and the client are both very pleased with the results.
Each of the two sites are a Volusion template that are built to work with the Volusion e-commerce software platform. The Volusion templates integrate seamlessly with Volusion, so that the client has a custom-built website that still takes advantage of the back-end e-commerce technology from Volusion.
It’s always fun to work in the education industry, as we’ve developed quite a portfolio in that realm. As parents, Dan and I are always interested in developments in education, and Cerebellum offers an outstanding line of high-quality education tools in the form of instructional books and CDs for teachers and students alike. We’re proud to have been chosen to work with such an outstanding, growing company.
We look forward to continuing to expand our presence in the field of education, and welcome Cerebellum to the Novocent family!
Auction Update
Published by Al on Tagged NewsJust an update to our previous post, the 2009 Robert Edward Auction achieved a record-breaking $10.1 million in sales. That beats last year’s number by nearly a million dollars. The sale was marked by a number of exceptional results, including the Honus Wagner baseball card for nearly $400,000, and the “Slow Joe” Doyle error card for $329,000.
Congrats to Robert Edward Auctions on another great sale!
The auction is live!
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Just wanted to point out that after a year of hard work, the Robert Edward Auctions annual sale is open for bidding.
Our company produces the annual printed catalog for this sale, a work of art that topped out at nearly 700 pages this year, with several thousand images and more copy than you can imagine. We also help the company by designing their website and helping them keep their home page content fresh.
If you’re a sports fan, this auction is a great experience - bidding is already brisk, with several items already approaching record prices with nearly three weeks left of bidding.
It’s one of our favorite projects, and the catalog is a great idea-starter. If your company produces a catalog of any kind, and you’re interested in learning more about how we can help streamline your processes and give you a dynamite result, drop us a note. We’d be happy to talk with you about how we can help design your catalog!
Tournament Update
Published by Al on Tagged General YammeringHeading into the weekend, it appears as if the fat lady is about to sing.
I’m currently in the lead, with 90 points and a possible 154. Dan is behind me, with 89 points and a possible 137.
I’ve got two teams in the Final Four - UConn and UNC. Dan has only UNC. Both of us have UNC winning the whole enchilada.
Which means I cannot lose.
I am The Man.
Jessica can get a few more points if UNC makes it to the championship game, but since she had Wake Forest winning the whole thing, the most possible points she can score is 64. This means that the only way she can win the Novocent Tourney is if the NCAA decides to start the whole thing over.
Lots of crazy upsets in the later rounds this year, which busted a lot of brackets early. The Novocent tourney is the only one of 6 or 7 that I’m in that I have any chance of winning, thanks to Pittsburgh, Louisville and Memphis all bowing out early.
That’s okay, though; baseball season is about to start!
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- A Few More Awards posted on Nov.11
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