DALLAS, TX — AVA Digital Awards announced winners for the 2019 international awards competition. There were 2,500 entries from throughout the United States, Canada, and 16 other countries. With over 6,000 submissions from throughout the United States, Canada and a multitude of other countries, Sharkey Advertising is named a Gold Winner in the 2019 Hermes Creative Awards, for Calibrant Digital. Awarded is a Gold Hermes for the Calibrant Digital Website in the Website Overall Business to Business Category and a Gold Hermes Award for the Logo Design category.
Hermes International Creative Awards recognizes outstanding work in the industry—entries from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers.
“We built a visual brand that is very dynamic, textured and bold on the new website, using only black and white dramatically lit relatable imagery with highlights of the bold Calibrant orange.” States Fran Sharkey, Principal, CEO. “Streamline, simplistic and stylized is the creative backbone behind this new brand. The newly created Calibrant Digital logo was executed to highlight the C and depict “digital” with an electric blue circular digital pattern. We developed new branded taglines throughout that touted “Experience the Touch of Digital Reimagination,” “Digital Solutions with A Different View” that plays with the Adrea Rubin Brand “We See Things From A Different Point of View,” “Calibrant is All Things Digital.” And “Redefining Possible.”
Calibrant Digital, a sister company of Adrea Rubin Marketing, Inc., is an online marketing and consulting firm that redefines and reimagines how partners reach and interact with their customers. “It was exciting to collaborate with Fran and her team on the website and logo design for Calibrant. In a sea of sameness, she helped us differentiate and reimagine all things digital SM. The long-term relationship between Adrea Rubin Marketing and Sharkey Advertising continues to support promotion of our brand and of our business.” states Adrea Rubin, CEO, Adrea Rubin Marketing, Inc. and Calibrant Digital www.Calibrant.com
Hermes Creative Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (www.amcpros.com). The international organization consists of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, media production and free-lance professionals. AMCP oversees awards and recognition programs, provides judges and rewards outstanding achievement and service to the profession.
AMCP judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.