That’s the sound of us blowing our own horn. These posts are usually named, “Shameless Promotion.” Well, forget that.. What’s improper about stepping back and taking a good look at the fruit of your labor? And then showing it off to everyone else? It’s kinda like when people go around showing everyone pictures of their newborn baby. Like, “Hey, look what I made!” I’m guilty of it myself.

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Woops,
Our ADDY certificates just came in the mail and to our surprise our award tally increased by 2. We got a gold for our SEDA Thanksgiving Day card,

and our design work forTCCa’s Myspace page got another silver.

Congrats to Fitz, Angel, Leigh and the crew at TCCa and Nicasio for your win guys!

Coming from our surprise 2 silver awards at last year’s ADDYs we were delighted to receive 4 this year. The awarded projects were as follows:

Savannah Economic Development Authority - Corporate Collateral

Secrets in Lace - Web design

Ditalia - Web design

“Turn Your Life Around” - 0:30 TV spot for Hourglass Fitness & Weightloss

2008’s starting off with a bang!
We just finished this album cover for Gospel artist, Euclid Gray that used some new skills learned from the blogosphere.

The circular swirly shapes I learned from Go Media’s video tutorial on Intricate Illustrator Patterns

The photo retouching and color treatment effect I learned from this tutorial from PSDTuts.

and the grunge edge effects around the edges thanks to BitBox

Thanks for sharing guys!

Tara over at Graphic Design Blog has a series going on called Design Case Studies where designers can share the process behind some of their projects. I just submitted a branding project I did a while back, when I was at MadGENIUS Inc.

Besides the free exposure, it’s a great feeling to be a part of contributing to the sharing going on in the Graphic Design world. Participating in the community is why we do this blogging thing anyway.
Plus there’s the advantage of getting feedback on your work from people other than your clients. I’d recommend other designers join in the fun.

We recently had the opportunity to work with some neighbors of ours, Farmers Almanac TV on one of their new show segments. Since we’ve begun the process of “greening” our practice, the theme of this particular segment, Home ECOnomics, was quite close to our hearts. It’s hosted by Melaver, Inc.’s Head of Sustainable Initiatives, Tommy Linstroth.

Christmas came early for us at Paragon since we recently designed a Christmas album for the Mississippi Mass Choir. It’s hopefully one in a long line of albums we’ll get to do for the Malaco Gospel Label.

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After giving their blog a facelift. The Creative Coast Initiative graciously gave us the opportunity to do some cosmetic surgery on their website as well. They even wrote a blog post about it, like to read it hear it goes…

How busy do you have to be to have another blog post about your own project before you do? Thankfully, pretty darn busy.
But it was a great opportunity to offer our services to The Creative Coast Initiative by designing their blog’s new theme.
Coding expertly done by Chris from the shiny new Nicasio Design.

We just found out that our lil’ muse header was deemed Creative Design worthy by David Airey himself in his inaugural Creative Design Awards.
To say we’re deeply honored is an understatement. Thanks David!

Definitely check out his other Awardees:

But also take a browse through David’s Archives and portfolio. He’s a keen eye and intelligent take on this design world we share.