It’s awards season, not only for Hollywood, but for designers too. The Cedar Rapids-Iowa City chapter of the American Advertising Association recently held their local ADDY awards. Their website says it best, “The mission of the ADDY competition is to recognize and reward creative excellence in the art of advertising.”

I submitted my work for Sweet Dee’s Beignets, as well as some projects I had worked on with my day job. I ended up winning two Silver ADDY awards and was very excited to have my work recognized. The Sweet Dee’s project was great fun to work on and I’m excited as they are moving into their second year (and some fun new promotional items I’m working on!).

1920’s Theme Party (photo credit Andrew Niemann, Cedar Rapids Jaycees)

I also had my lovely date (the boyfriend) there to cheer me on. So grateful for all of his support when I’m working late on 800 projects at once.

Casino Games (photo credit Andrew Niemann, Cedar Rapids Jaycees)

The ADDY’s party was 1920’s themed and there were many people decked out for the part. They even put all the drinks in brown paper bags, prohibition-era-style, and had casino games put on by the Cedar Rapids Jaycees. The Paramount Theater was a great venue to fit the theme as well (we had been there just a short while ago for this). Ending up being a great evening, and now I even have a little something to put in my (non-existent) trophy case.