Strike it rich with award bounty to be exact. Friday marked the annual AIGA 100 Show here in Salt Lake City. The 100 Show features the top 100 design pieces from the previous year and Struck was well represented. Of the 100 pieces, 9 came from within these walls. And one of those 9 pieces, the Fat Flake Festival Poster for Ski Utah took home a coveted Copper Ingot – a top honor issued to a maximum of 10 of the most deserving.

The list of recognized clients is long, but they deserve to be mentioned. Congrats to The Wall Street Journal, KUER, Specialized, Freemotion Fitness, Boticelli, Actium, Jot-it, Lush and Ski Utah for allowing us to do such great work for your brands.

Looks like carpetestes.org is a nominee over at The Webby Awards! Basically that means it’s one of the five best in the world in its category and has the potential of winning both a Webby Award and the Webby People’s Voice Award in the Public Service and Activism category of “Online Film and Video”. Pretty radical. The People’s Voice Award is selected by the online public, aka you, so take a gander over to the polls, sign-up, and place your vote. Awesome work, Struckers.

Congrats to all the Struckers who worked on our slew of Addy award-winning projects this year. Struck took home 10 Gold Addy’s, 8 Silver Addy’s, and the Judge’s Special Award. The Struck clients that were honored included:

The Sean Kimerling Foundation – 4 Golds, Sweet’s Candy – 1 Gold & 1 Silver, Deer Valley Resort – 1 Gold & 1 Silver, Cocoa – 1 Silver, Utah Office of Tourism – 1 Gold & 2 Silvers, Utah Film Commission – 1 Gold, XanGo – 2 Silvers, and Ski Utah – 1 Gold & 1 Silver

Special congrats to Brandon Knowlden, Rich Black, and Peder Singleton for conceiving, writing, and smashing the show-stopping Lush business card. Apparently it was good enough for the judges to get their creativity on–making up their own special award just for that card! Unorthodox? Yes. But we’ll take it.

Spring’s right around the corner and it’s almost time to trade in your goggle tan for a farmer’s tan. There’s no better way to make room for your skis than to reintroduce your bike to fresh mountain air. We teamed up with Specialized to make sure the ladies are now well-equipped to ride with the boys anytime, anywhere. Check out the new site at www.d4wgear.com. Specifically check out the shoe section. What self respecting woman doesn’t like shoes?