| 16 May 2012
New York, NY (April 30, 2012) - The winners of The 2012 Communicator Awards have been announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts today. With thousands of entries received from across the US and around the world, the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring the creative excellence for communications professionals.
The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), a 550+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the 
visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Current IAVA membership represents a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms including: Condè Nast, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, HBO, Keller Crescent, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Tribal DDB, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, Yahoo!, and many others.
“The po
ol of entries we received for this year’s Communicator Awards serves as a true testament to the innovative ideas and capabilities of communications and marketing professionals around the world. Each year our entrants continue to amaze by reinventing the ways we communicate and market in an ever-changing industry” noted Linda Day, executive director of the IAVA. She added, “On behalf of the entire Academy, we congratulate this year’s Communicator Award Entrants and Winners for their passion and dedication. We are humbled to be given the opportunity to recognize such amazing work.”
The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications. Founded nearly two decades ago, The Communicator Awards receives over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. It is sponsored by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving
nature of traditional and interactive media.
Of the businesses and agencies recognized in 2011, Collipsis Web Solutions did not come away empty-handed! The business received an award for Visual Appeal for the website design for Thrive Rescue Home. We couldn't be more pleased and grateful to our clients for making this possible!
| 13 April 2012
Collipsis web Solutions is proud to to once again place in the Graphic Design USA Awards Competition, host to one of the leading magazines in the US for Graphic Designers and Creative Professionals.
The American Graphic Design Awards is a four decade old flagship competition, and is open to everyone in the graphic arts community – graphic design firms, advertising agencies, inhouse corporate and institutional designers, publishers and other media. Each year, roughly 1,000 pieces representing all media appear in the printed Design Annual and online.
Winners are informed by mail with congratulatory letters and certificates while a select number are further showcased in the 200-page annual celebrating the forward motion and lengthy strides of the graphic design community.
The recognized piece for 2011 is the website built for Essex House, one of the finest furniture stores in Tulsa, OK. The website has a luxurious feel meant to echo the quality of the products it advertises, incorporating natural tones and elegant design.
Collipsis Web Solutions would be nothing without its faithful clients. Thank you for helping the firm move forward, and here's to another year full of inspiration and success! For more information about the Graphic Design Awards, visit www.gdusa.com.
| 13 April 2012
ChristianStoryTeller.com racked up it's 5th annual award from Writer's Digest magazine when it was named one of the Top 101 Sites for Writers.
Collipsis began working with site owner, Leon Mentzer in 2010, when they radically rebuilt the Christian Story Teller website.
Christian Story Teller is a non-profit website with the solitary goal of connecting Christian authors with other Christian authors and providing them with networking, support, and education. For some, the goal might seem lofty, but Christian Story Teller pulls it off with panache. The organization not only provides astounding benefits for its members (a personal web page, extended advertising opportunities, and unlimited resources), but also sponsors a variety of impressive events, such as the “Information is Power” self-marketing seminars—hosted by Leon Mentzer and “Life After Publishing” co-hosted by Mentzer & Collipsis Founders, Nicholas Clayton and JP Jones. In February 2006, CST even hosted the largest author’s book signing in the world...on a cruise ship, in the Caribbean Sea!
Collipsis is proud to be a part of this award winning legacy of excellence. Click here to visit Christian Story Teller and see for yourself how deserving it is of recognition.
| 25 May 2011
Collipsis is proud to announce the site success of Christian Story Teller, a "network of authors for authors". For the second straight year in a row, CST has received the distinguished honor of being named one of Writer's Digest 101 Best Web Sites for Writers.
2011 marks the 10th annual 101 best of the best resources contest for writers of all genres. CST placed out of more than 2,100 nominations this year that feature quotes, advice, critiques, communities, and more that give storytellers a place to share and readers a chance to discover.
CST's straightforward, yet aesthetically appealing, web design fosters its founding mission to further the community of Christian authors. The site has continued to flourish since its honorary inception in 2010 and humbly accepts its two-peat admission as a challenge to continue growing its already extensive collaboration of literary enthusiasts.
Collipsis Web Solutions shares in the joy of the prestigious award after its principally led site wide redesign in 2010.
Owned and operated by author and speaker Leon Mentzer, CST provides networking and support for authors along with a proprietary web page for each participating member. Currently, the site serves as many as 130 authors and can be found at www.ChristianStoryteller.com.
| 07 October 2010
GRAPHIC DESIGN USA ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF THE 42nd ANNUAL AMERICAN GRAPHIC DESIGN AWARDS COMPETITION
New York, NY - Collipsis takes home two awards of distinction in the 2010 Graphic Design USA Awards Competition, host to one of the leading magazines in the US for Graphic Designers and Creative Professionals.
According to the design powerhouse's mantra, the best and brightest compete sharing their affinity for trend-setting design and envelope-pushing competition. Collipsis, in conjunction with Paige1Media's creative touch, landed a spot among 8,000 total entries with a high-class Web design and a polished Email template.
Winners are informed by mail with congratulatory letters and certificates and a select number are showcased in the 200 page annual celebrating the forward motion and lengthy strides of the graphic design community.
Below are pieces recognized this year for creative brilliance. Included are Collipsis' Market Yourself the Book Web installment and Hootpress Conversion House's Email template.
What an honor it is designing for passionate clients whose inspiring ideas take shape center stage. For more information on the American Graphic Design Awards, visit www.gdusa.com.
| 29 December 2009
The 39th Annual Creativity Awards, today named Collipsis Web Solutions as a winner in the Web site Category. (If applicable: The entry was produced by Nicholas Clayton and JP Jones).
This year, judges from some of the United States' most prestigious design firms evaluated the work produced by their peers and students.
The 39th Annual Creativity Awards received thousands of entries from 37 countries and 37 U.S. states. The competition showcases work from around the globe in the Annual Book published after the close of each year’s competition and sold in bookstores around the world.
About The Creativity Annual Awards:
Established in 1970, The Creativity Annual Awards is based in Louisville, KY and is one of the longest running independent international advertising and graphic design competitions in the world. A print, web, advertising and media design competition, each year the judges choose the best from all over the world to be reproduced in the 400-page Creativity Awards Annual Book.
| 29 December 2009
Two of Collipsis Web Solutions Web sites will be featured in an upcoming release from Harper Collins Publishing, "The NEW Big Book of Layouts" scheduled to hit stores in May of 2010.
"Splinters" was selected based on the cover design and interior layout design of the 160 pg, full color book that has pictures weaving throughout the layout—making it more reader friendly and setting the bar for designers everywhere.
The book boasts great layouts are the beginning of all effective visual communication. This 384 page book will showcase only the best layouts in a variety of disciplines, including publication design (books and magazines) to print design (menus, brochures, posters) and more.
"The NEW Big Book of Layouts" is the second installment in the "Layouts" series. The original Big Book of Layouts came out in 2006, and then in paperback in 2009. This sequel will hit stores in May 2010, will be available everywhere books are sold in the United States and in 20 countries world wide.
Collins Design, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, specializes in design related book - everything from Manga to interior design to graphic design.
| 26 December 2009
This year, roughly 1,000 pieces were presented the GD USA Design annual. Slowly but surely, over four decades, our Annual has become a meeting place for the best and the brightest.
Media diversity abounds: print and collateral, package design and in-store graphics, advertising and sales promotion, invitations and announcements, direct mail and catalogs, magazines and books, broadcast and film and - surprise, surprise - more internet and interactive pieces than ever. Diverse, too, are the organizations and clients: Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups, consumer and business-to-business ventures, political and religious organizations, governments and trade associations, universities and cultural institutions.
Moreover, the winning pieces come from many of the established creative minds and organizations of our time, and even more who are striving to excel, to gain recognition and to find a deserved place in the sun. This is a particularly satisfying mix, since GDUSA is tempermentally welcoming and accessible to a broad range of work and voices in an often insular industry.
