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A3 Design is proud to announce having received Gold awards for the Wire Mesh logo/packaging created for Walmart and the Patrick Coyne event collateral created for AIGA, the professional organization for design on Thursday, March 4 at the 2010 Charlotte Ad Club Addy Awards and Gala.

We are proud to announce that our client, Jewish Family Services of Charlotte, received the KOVOD Award for Excellence in Website Design from the national organization: the Association of Jewish Family & Children's Agencies. We are so thrilled for Stephanie Starr and her team. They have worked hard to raise awareness for the organization and are seeing the results every day in their growing community.

If you watched this year's show you may have notice a few of the Academy's logo designs. Above on left, 82nd Academy Awards show logo, and on right, Oscar logo. Both use striking visual contrast of positive and negative space to communicate. This is most appropriate for an industry based in both the visual and verbal worlds. In the design industry we call this Typographic Syntax. The arranging of elements into a cohesive whole. The 82nd logo's individual letterforms are paired and their corresponding interior counters relate to produce a delicate, asymmetrically balanced symbol. More

LogoLounge: Master Library, Volume 1, is the beginning of a new series of books by the authors of LogoLounge, featuring the ultimate collection of initials and crests by category. LogoLounge: Master Library, Volume 2 is the second in that series and focuses its collection on the subject of animals and myths. This one is organized thematically with the broader focus of Animals and Mythology. The collection features logos that cover all categories of logo design, including typographic, illustrative, pattern-driven, and photographic. We are proud to have logos included in both volumes. More