Two Sisters wins Best of Reston Award?

What a nice surprise to wake up to an e-mail that Two Sisters Creative has won the 2009 Best of Reston Award for Commercial Art and Graphic Design. We have, the announcement said, won this because of our outstanding work and community service.

It's so nice to be recognized for our hard work. It's to bad that the Better Business Bureau has deemed this particular award, issued by the U.S. Commerce Association, a "vanity award" and cautions winners not to get hoodwinked into buying all the trophies. It apparently serves no real purpose other than to generate income for the association.

I supposed that makes sense since I didn't even know nominations for this thing were out, let alone that we were nominated. And I can't figure out how one is selected...to my knowledge, they didn't see any samples of our work.

Still, it was a nice thing on a Monday morning to be called a winner.

Save Brown's Chapel

We love Reston. One of the things we love are the parks and paths that provide opportunity for outdoor recreation. But now there is a proposal underway to destroy one of the best parks in Reston ~ Brown's Chapel ~ and build a huge sports complex in it's place. We want to stop this!

Our friends at Brainwave agree, and developed this video for it. Brainwave is another Reston-based ad agency (that does beautiful work, by the way). Enjoy the video...it says it all.

How to Discuss the Budget

Greetings from the How Design Conference in Austin. Design Girl and I decided to take a few days off and come down here to learn about what's going on in the design world. One of the presenters (Gridiron Software) shared this video in a session on how to thrive in the down economy. I just had to share. While it's very funny, it's also very true. Enjoy!

Sisters Rock

The other day I got a request from News Channel 7...they were looking for siblings in business together. Here is the resulting news story.

Great Resource for On-line Training

I treated myself to a year subscription of on-line at Lynda.com and it has been fabulous. There is a tutorial for anything I want to do. When I'm stuck, I just log on, find the training module that addresses what I want to do, listen for a few minutes, and I'm on my way. It's great!

Happy Birthday Strunk and White

For all you editors and writers out there, today is a day to celebrate...it's the 50th anniversary of "Strunk and White's The Elements of Style." What's amazing is this reference is still aplicable today (mostly anyway).

To learn more, visit Suite101, a literary blog.

Great Resource: Target Marketing

I get tons of e-newsletters, most of which I didn't ever ask for. I regularly read one of them: TM Tipline for Target Marketing Magazine. I always find something in it that I can use for my clients. It's a great little read.