Airtype has been awarded a Silver Addy from the American Advertising Federation of the Triad for our Junior Johnson Midnight Moon poster. The Addy Awards are the world's largest and arguably toughest advertising competition.
The Addy Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world.
We'd like to welcome James "Graf" Greene to the Airtype team. James is our new in-house developer specializing in database integration, dynamic flash(AS3), ajax, jquery, & everything else web-related under the sun. We're very excited to have him on board.
Airtype has been awarded (9) Silver Awards from the Davey Awards Competition. The Davey Awards honor the creative excellence of smaller agencies and companies worldwide.
Winning client projects included Coca-Cola, Junior Johnson's Midnight Moon, Spring Awakening, Pinedale Student Ministries, Hands and Feet, Evoka and Piedmont Distillers.
Airtype's album packaging for Evoka's "Cries from the Castlegate Empire" has been nominated and selected as a finalist in the 2008 Independent Music Awards.
The IMAs – ‘the awards program for the indie revolution’ is an unique international competition that showcases top-ranked independent artists, labels and design firms to more than 15 million music fans and industry decision makers.
Judges include Aimee Mann, Peter Gabriel, Roger Daltrey, Keith Urban, Buddy Guy, Butch Walker, Joe Cuello (MTV) and Anthony DeCurtis (Rolling Stone) to name a few.
Airtype has been awarded (2) Gold and (3) Silver awards from the W3 Awards Competition. The W3's honor creative excellence on the web, and recognize the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites.
Judges include executives from organizations such as Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, HBO, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Victoria Secret, Wired, Yahoo! and many others.
Winning client projects included Hands and Feet, Grizzly, Pinedale Student Ministries and Piedmont Distillers.
Airtype has been awarded an Innovator Emerging Media Award from the Summit International Awards Competition. The SIA's were created to identify the world's communication pioneers. Those pushing the bounds of the communication badlands.
Winning project was the Hands and Feet website.
Airtype has been awarded (4) Awards of Excellence and (10) Silver Awards of Distinction from the Communicator Awards. The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals.
Winning client projects included Grizzly, Hands and Feet, Junior Johnson's Midnight Moon, Refocus, Taylor Made Construction, Scarlet Vaden Foundation, Nathan Angelo, Evoka and Nascar/Dale Jr.
We recommend the following albums for your listening pleasure:
- OURS // Mercy
- Elbow // The Seldom Seen Kid
- MGMT // Oracular Spectacular
- Flight of the Conchords // Self-Titled
- Augustana // Can't Love, Can't Hurt
- Athlete // Beyond the Neighbourhood
Airtype was selected to have our "Rock and Roll Hotel" logo included in the new LogoLounge 4 book by Rockport Publishers. LogoLounge 4 showcases 2000 International Identities by Leading Designers. LogoLounge 4 is available online & in bookstores internationally.
LogoLounge features the best of the best in logo design, so we were thrilled to have been a part of it!
Airtype recently launched a webstore & designed a full line of designer apparel & accessories for the hit Broadway Musical Spring Awakening. Spring Awakening recently took home 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, as well as a Grammy for best musical score . Click here to check out the goods.
Its race time once again and Airtype is represented at the 50th Annual Daytona 500. Airtype designed the Junior Johnson Midnight Moon logo which is the primary sponsor for the #70 HAAS Racing Chevy driven my Jeremy Mayfield.
Check it out on the track February 17th on FOX!
Here's to 2008! Thanks to all our clients for a breakthrough 2007.
Airtype has been awarded a Gold POS Display Award by Design of the Times for the Piedmont Distillers 1940 Ford retail car display. The display can be seen in liquor stores across the country.
The Design of the Times Awards Competition recognizes the retail industry's best displays and promotions. Winning entries are judged on creativity, innovation, practicality, branding and achievement of sales and marketing objectives.
Judges included marketing execs from Black and Decker, Johnson and Johnson, Miller, Nestle, Nintendo, ConAgra and T-Mobile.
Great things happen when you least expect them. Last month we were completely distracted by packing, painting, moving and unpacking. Everyone was tired and getting by day to day. Then one little email changed everything.
We are very excited to announce that Airtype Studio has been nominated for a Dove Award in the category ‘Recorded Music Packaging of the Year’ for Sony/Flicker recording artist “Eleventyseven”.
The 38th GMA Dove Awards aires on April 25, 2007.
“Who will Airtype work with next?” By staying true to our southern roots one of our new relationships is with Zippo Motorsports® and NASCAR®.
We currently have two lighter designs (Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Kasey Khane) in Zippo’s motorsports brochure and will have two more (Dale Earnhardt and another Kasey Khane) coming out this summer.
Airtype now calls downtown Winston-Salem home. A few good men put a lot of sweat into this place and we’re all appreciative. Our space, on the fifth floor of the historic O’Hanlon Building, is still a work in progress but with a lot of help from Ikea we know the finished product will be great.
If you are local or just happen to be in the area feel free to stop in for a visit.
Airtype Studio
105 West 4th Street, 5th Floor
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Museum of Design Atlanta/Smithsonian exhibition on music/show posters entitled "Graphic Noise" is travelling to schools nationwide. We have a few posters selected for the show from Jump, Howie Day & Evoka along with some of the premier poster creators out there like Methane, Asterik etc. Rock on.
Airtype is recognized as one of the leaders in the visual design & layout community. We take pride in the fact that our designs have been top sellers on several national platforms & can be seen in major retail outlets, web media, magazines, & venues nationwide.
Our sites are custom built per client needs utilizing the latest technology. These techniques include Flash AS3, Ajax, JQuery,Mootools, Scriptaculous & Prototype to deliver high-end web sites for maximum user functionality & client impact.
Airtype was launched in 2006 by Bryan Ledbetter. If you care to know anything about him, click here.
We are looking to fill the following positions immediatly:
All positions are in-house 3 month contract with the goal of full-time employment.
To apply, send us a link to your online portfolio/resume to info@airtypestudio.com
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