Celebrating the Holidays Ad Contest

Celebrating the Holidays Ad Contest

With over 200 entries our judges had quite a challenge to pick a single winner. Find inspiration from all of this year's 'Celebrating the Holidays' Ad Contest entries. To see all of these shared ideas as a slideshow, click on View Slideshow below.

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Celebrating the Holidays Ad Contest

We invited you to enter our "Celebrating the Holidays" Ad Contest, where we'll treat the winner to a $200 Visa Gift Card, and four runner-ups to $50 Visa Gift Cards.

We are happy to announce that the 2013 "Celebrating the Holidays" Ad Contest Winners are:
Best Print Ad - Mark, Lebanon Publishing Co
Runner-up - Brian, Northern News Services
Runner-up - David, Lufkin Daily News
Runner-up - PennyWise Ads
Runner-up - Mike, Wick Communications
Runner-up - Matt, Black Press
Runner-up - Mike, Jake, The Observer

View slides of all contest entries, click here.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER!
THIS AD BRINGS TOGETHER GREAT DESIGN, BASED AROUND A SINGLE IMAGE COUPLED WITH PERFECT TYPE CHOICE — THE END RESULT... WHIMSICAL PERFECTION! Historic Lebanon boutique businesses joining to promote a shop local pre holiday shopping event. (Submitted by Mark, Lebanon Publishing Co)
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A VERY IMPRESSIVE EFFORT THAT SHOWS HOW RETRO AND CLASSIC IMAGERY CAN LOOK SO CURRENT WITHIN A PERFECTLY DESIGNED LAYOUT! This double page spread in our Yellowknifer Newspaper is for one of Yellowknife's premier furniture companies. This big "Early Christmas" sale ad was so loved by the client, they decided to run it in 2 issues! They especially liked the retro Christmas feel. For the timed sales I adjusted each clock and swung a red blur to show each sale is only for 25 minutes! (Submitted by Brian, Northern News Services)
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LOVED HOW THE OVERALL DISTRESSED LOOK ENHANCED THE RETRO IMAGERY TO CREATE A VERY ATTRACTIVE LAYOUT FOR THIS ADVERTISER! An ad made for a local theatre (Submitted by David, Lufkin Daily News)
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WHAT IS NOT TO LOVE ABOUT THIS AD. THE WHOLE LOOK AND FEEL MAKES YOU SMILE WHILE CLEARLY PRESENTING THE ADVERTISER AND MESSAGE! Ad for a nearby business for the holiday season (Submitted by PennyWise Ads)
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SO MANY THINGS WENT INTO THIS AD, STARTING FROM THE IDEA FOR ENGAGING READERS. NICE USE OF PHOTOSHOP IN THE PAPER NAME AND GOOD USE OF GRAPHICS, AS WELL AS AN APPEALING OVERALL LAYOUT! House ad for Montrose Daily Press in Montrose, Colorado. Used Halloween elements from Metro and created a Halloween themed Logo for Montrose Daily Press. (Submitted by Mike, Wick Communications)
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SOMETIMES IT IS THE SIMPLEST LOOKING AD THAT MAKES THE BIGGEST IMPACT, HERE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE This cheeky ad plays on the the traditional 'Happy New Year' greeting - excuse my pun. When I came up with the idea I was doubtful I would find artwork to suit it, but Metro Creative Connection came through. (Submitted by Matt, Black Press)
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WHILE WE DIDN'T SEE THE ENTIRE SERIES, THIS SINGLE AD STOOD OUT WITH ITS EXCELLENT AND CLEAN DESIGN THAT PERFECTLY SHOWCASES THE KEY INDIVIDUAL AD ELEMENTS! This ad is one in a series of ads for the Elmira Gift Outlet where the offer is typeset to draw the eye down to a Christmas element. (Submitted by Jake, The Observer)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEAN AND COHESIVE, SHOP LOCAL MULTIPLE-ADVERTISER PAGE
Holiday Open House ad for multiple companies requesting multiple designs on one piece. (Submitted by Manon, The Item)
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Every Halloween, Tap't Out, a local restaurant and bar, has a great costume contest... so we decided to spice it up this year :) (Submitted by Danielle, Fayette Publishing)
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CatFest is a local Halloween event. I used different Metro graphics to make a cohesive piece that the customer loved. (Submitted by Manon, The Item)
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Kimell's Furniture Store Black Friday $199 Sale! They loved this ad so much that they've just updated it for the last 3 years. This is the 3rd year using this layout and background/scheme. (Submitted by Manon, The Item)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST LABOR DAY AD
Celeate Labor Day from Napleton Auto Group - general promo with sales & service hours for Labor Day. (Submitted by Gretchen, Rockford Register Star)
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Crimson Ridge is a large florist/gift store that advertises weekly in our paper. As you can image Christmas is HUGE for them. The owner was very insistent that the message be religious in nature. (Submitted by Gretchen, Rockford Register Star)
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Halloween theme ad Premier Chevy, Buick, GMC... they wanted an ad that would reach out and grab you! (Submitted by Sonia, The Dominion Post)
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They wanted a "cold turkey" theme with "Buzz" - (John Howard Motors mascot) being dressed up as a pilgrim advertising their low prices and making the ad appealing to customers. (Submitted by Sonia, The Dominion Post)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEAN AND ELEGANT, MULTIPLE-PRODUCTS PAGE
This is a jewelry ad I designed for a local Jeweler for Christmas. (Submitted by Tayhlor, Today's AdVantage)
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This is a Christmas ad I designed for a local jewelry store for Today's AdVantage Newspaper. (Submitted by Tayhlor, Today's AdVantage)
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Festive halloween ad for a local furniture company. (Submitted by Cary, The Item)
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Christmas open house ad. (Submitted by Cary, The Item)
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HONORABLE MENTION: PAWSOME CHARITIBLE PROMOTION
This ad was created to help promote the local humane society's holiday fundraiser. (Submitted by Lera, Mt. Shasta Area Newspapers)
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Our local Chevrolet auto dealer in town came up with a the idea of a "Price Slasher Sale" and wanted us to design something around that heading. This was what I created and they loved it. (Submitted by Rachael, Black Press - Campbell River Mirror)
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Halloween is my favourite holiday of the year and I have lots of fun designing spooky ads. This one was for a local furniture store in which whey wanted to not only promote their sale but let everyone know they could win a pair of tickets to Alice Cooper. (Submitted by Rachael, Black Press - Campbell River Mirror)
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Christmas isn't just about finding the best gift... (Submitted by Dixie, Hills & Plains Free Press)
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I have three entries: Jesus is the reason for the season, Black Friday turkey and Shop locally lady. I'm new to doing ads like this but I thought it was worth a try to enter your contest. (Submitted by Dixie, Hills & Plains Free Press)
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HONORABLE MENTION: FUN USE OF A CARTOON
Shop in you hometown (Submitted by Dixie, Hills & Plains Free Press)
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In Davis, CA you could expect to see a scene just like this during the fall. I chose this image to poke fun at our little turkey town and hopefully give our readers a chuckle. (Submitted by Rita, The Davis Enterprise)
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Local builder wanted an ad for Halloween that would attract attention. We did it and he got a tremendous response. People were even buzzing about the ad that day at church. LOL (Submitted by Bambi, The Chronicle-Telegram)
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HONORABLE MENTION: DOWNTOWN HOLIDAY EVENTS PROMOTION
This ad was designed to encourage attendance at an upcoming Holiday shopping event in Downtown Campbell River. (Submitted by Marnie, Black Press)
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Christmas design (Submitted by Jennifer, Bonny Buyer)
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Local Realtor wanted to do full page for our Home For The Holiday's special edition. Came up with a catchy cut at Metro, set the houses and went with it. (Submitted by Jay, lwood Publishing Company)
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This was a fun one to make. The client wanted their building to look "spooky," so I played with filters and tried to make some creepy fog to go around it. It ran in both color and black and white, but I liked this version better because it calls upon old horror movie themes for a put-together Halloween ad. (Submitted by Amanda, Neighbor News)
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A note came in with this ad order asking for a new Christmas series for the customer. I made numerous ads with a central theme in attempts to grasp a warm, holiday spirit that the customer would like. This was the first of at least three ads the company decided to run this year! (Submitted by Amanda, Neighbor News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST DENTAL AD
This was an ad designed to incorporate a whimsical holiday theme in hopes of encouraging more local advertisers to run ads on Christmas day. (Submitted by Allie, Lancaster Newspapers)
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HONORABLE MENTION: EXCELLENT PRESENTATION OF NUMEROUS ADVERTISER REQUIREMENTS
The advertiser wanted me to create an upscale, eye-catching Christmas ad to showcase his holiday promotions. He was very happy with this promo and ran several times. (Submitted by Allie, Lancaster Newspapers)
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This was designed for a department-wide spec contest, in hopes to create 'out of the box' ads to run on Christmas day. The spec was not purchased by the client, but did win the 2012 LNP Xmas ad contest. (Submitted by Allie, Lancaster Newspapers)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST VALENTINE'S CONTEST PAGE
This Valentine's Day page showcases entries that were submitted for a contest we sponsored about the 10 Things You Love Most About Your Partner. The winning entry was featured in the heart at the top of the page. (Submitted by Amanda, The Baytown Sun Newspaper)
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I created this Valentine's-themed ad to showcase items on sale for one of our local western wear stores. (Submitted by Amanda, The Baytown Sun Newspaper)
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I was in need of something "Christmasy" for a very particular Travel Agency. Of course, I immediately thought of Santa and his reindeer "traveling" through the sky. Their ads run black and white, so I wanted something that would stand out well. This art was a winner for us! :-) (Submitted by Penelope, The Leader)
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This is a black and white ad for a local clothing store. I used pieces of Metro graphics to design. (Submitted by Rebecca, OKC Friday Newspaper)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST PHARMACY AD
I have always loved incorporating the Metro service into my ad designs and decided to enter this competition. We recently added full color to our newspaper, which made my job more exciting as my world of design was greatly expanded. The ad I am submitting boasts many colors. and I loved using a non-Christmas color of yellow as a big attraction to promote an upcoming visit from Santa. This advertiser is also an avid Georgia Bulldogs fan, so I was tickled to be able to use the Georgia logo for him. (Submitted by Angela, Hawkinsville Dispatch & News)
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I get to design all the promotional ads here at The Elkhart Truth. This is a current contest we're promoting. I had fun putting the little Elk within the mini ipad. I love how the typography came together on this ad. (Submitted by Jen, The Elkhart Truth)
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This was a little business card size ad I designed for a local shoe repair shop. I used a viant color scheme for excitement paired with elegant fonts. The shoes represent new possibilities. (Submitted by Jen, The Elkhart Truth)
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Recently created for a holiday special wrap. (Submitted by Johanna, Federated Media)
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Holiday promo ad for the newspaper. (Submitted by Johanna, Federated Media)
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We were all very excited to promote the first annual Family Day in BC. (Submitted by Louisa, Northern Sentinel)
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There's never a better time to celeate with your mother on Mother's Day and take her out to a local classy restaurant. (Submitted by Louisa, Northern Sentinel)
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HONORABLE MENTION: HALLOWEEN EVENT/AWARENESS PROMOTION
awesome feel (Submitted by Srini, Own)
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cool. (Submitted by Srini, Own)
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Chrsitmas Theme. (Submitted by Srini, Own)
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HONORABLE MENTION: HOLIDAY COUPON BOOK COVER
This is the cover and our in house graphic for our 24 page Holiday Coupon Book, called HoliDEALS. METRO was a great source for artwork and holiday editorial! (Submitted by Chase, PrintSource Network)
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This ad just makes me smile when I look at it. I love Christmas and the ight, happy colours that it ings with it. (Submitted by Sarah, Black Press)
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I just love how fun this ad looks. It was a little time consuming to get it just right but was totally worth the time it took. (Submitted by Sarah, Black Press)
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Rememance Day is possibly the most important holiday of the year. I found this ad very emotional to build. The men and women who fight for our country and freedom are amazing people. (Submitted by Sarah, Black Press)
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Happy Thanksgiving from the original "Thanks-givers"! (Submitted by Misty, The News Courier)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEVER CONCEPT
We created a holiday idea and theme for our local Rec Center's promotion. It went off the Halloween theme of "Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet", and included the fun socks/poses to add color and personality to the ad. The ad required fun interaction from the customers. Their response was great! (Submitted by Laureen, Watertown Public Opinon)
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Our town had a Holiday Open house. With a bunch of advertisers on a shared ad. (Submitted by Mechelle, The Pilot)
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HONORABLE MENTION: SENIOR-FOCUSED EVENT PROMOTION
This ad was for the Senior Center. (Submitted by Mechelle, The Pilot)
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Kids for Kids promotion published in the Eaton Register Herald in Eaton, Ohio to promote local toy drive. The focus of the ad is on the child and the joy that the toys ing to children. (Submitted by Cody, Civitas Media, LLC/Mount Airy News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST HALLOWEEN WEB AD
300x250 Web ad for Town of Walnut Cove's Halloween in the Park. A kid friendly event. (Submitted by Cody, Civitas Media, LLC/Mount Airy News)
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The client wished to draw more attention to Ladies Hunting apparel & hunting merchandise. He would like for the ad to speak to the "ladies of our community" when their Husbands' want to come shopping they will want to come along as well. Top selling merchandise, Matthews Bows and other compound bows, client wants to maximize Archery market. Eventually in the future will offer a Ladies Archery League. Client requested something "edgy" and also wanted massive deer antlers worked in somewhere. Original 10.569" x 10.5" cmyk, newspaper. (Submitted by Bonner, The Index Journal)
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Halloween Sales promotional flyer. Sales flyer 8.5" x 11" distributed to potential local clients. (Submitted by Bonner, The Index Journal)
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Blue Hampton wanted to run an ad on our Halloween Special section. The client wanted to use zea print. The ad was kept simple with the use of pink and cyan blue only on black & white background. The ad had a subtle Scary font to hint at the time of year being Halloween. This ad ran in a spread of 12 ads and was by far the most eye catching because it was not Over-The-Top cheesy scary (like most of the surrounding ads). (Submitted by Bonner, The Index Journal)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CREATIVE HALLOWEEN MULTIPLE-ADVERTISER CONCEPT
We wanted something new for our advertisers this halloween. We thought we would get a handful of advertisers to be placed on our downtown business trick or treat map. We ended up with 35 interested advertisers with more calling us after deadline after the word really spread about the map. Our small community soon got on board spreading the word with facebook. The first day of business after we published the map we immediately received calls of interest. I used Haunted house icons and little hidden googley eyes, spiders, bats, etc from Metro. A full color map our entire community of readers and advertisers got on board with happily. A great success for us all! (Submitted by Elizabeth, Ranger Review)
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HONORABLE MENTION: FESTIVE HOLIDAY SELF-PROMO AD
This is printed on glossy paper as an 8.5 x 11 insert advertisement for our newspaper subscription. The background and layout were Metro graphics and suggestion. The bulbs were mine. ;) (Submitted by Elizabeth, Ranger Review)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST HOLIDAY LIGHTS EVENT/CONTEST
We are starting a Holiday Lights promotion. I used Metro to design the teaser ad and the following map ad. This one is the contest with the map. We will eventually list nominated houses with pictures on the map. (Submitted by Elizabeth, Ranger Review)
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This was a for a gift wrap company called Rich Wrap who requested an elegant looking ad for their magazine ad. Metro is always there to help make it happen. They LOVED the look. (Submitted by Michael, Shaw Media)
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HONORABLE MENTION: IMPRESSIVE HALLOWEEN GANG PAGE
As many who have done "gang pages" know, they aren't always fun, but after doing this one, I thought it was well put together. (Submitted by Michael, Shaw Media)
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Ad is front and back page of an insert that I designed for Premier Chevy, Buick, GMC....they wanted a fun, eye-catching ad! They were very pleased with the outcome. (Submitted by Sonia, The Dominion Post)
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HONORABLE MENTION: ATTRACTIVE LOCAL HOLIDAY SHOPPING SPREAD
A center page ad for the City of Lawrenceburg in order to promote local holiday shopping. Map built by me in illustrator. (Submitted by Lillian, Register Publications)
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I created this ad for The Rising Sun Newspaper to promote their City-wide Halloween Trick-Or- Treat event. (Submitted by Lillian, Register Publications)
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HONORABLE MENTION: EXCELLENT VETERAN'S DAY TRIBUTE PAGE
This is a full page newspaper ad for Veteran's Day. (Submitted by Lillian, Register Publications)
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A Thanksgiving ad that had lots of other holiday events going on. (Submitted by Brenda, The Athens Messenger)
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One of the holiday ads that I designed. (Submitted by Brenda, The Athens Messenger)
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An Easter ad I did (Submitted by Brenda, The Athens Messenger)
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Carly Combs was a young girl that died tragically. She had a love for Halloween. Her family has started a foundation in her name. I was asked to build a black and white ad. I used a picture of Carly in her favorite costume, found a great bat background and used her for the center. I did an overlay of the bats to give it more dimension. (Submitted by JIll, Sample News Group)
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HONORABLE MENTION: NICE USE OF PHOTOSHOP
I designed an ad for an event in our local park. I love Halloween and the challenge was fun. I used Metro art and built the ad in photoshop. (Submitted by Jill, Sample News Group)
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This is part of an ongoing series of ads that we designed for a dentist. All the ads are similar, in showing a character with a large open mouth that contains the text of the ads. We change up the face depending on the season or holiday, this was obviously for Halloween. (Submitted by Steve, Smart Shopper)
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HONORABLE MENTION: COMMUNITY GIFT CARD CONCEPT
All year long, especially during the holiday season we sell gift cards for our local businesses to consumers at a discounted price. This was a promotional piece that we used to advertise the gift cards in our paper. (Submitted by Steve, Smart Shopper)
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Holiday advertising special. (Submitted by Doug, The Meadville Tribune)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CREATIVE HOLIDAY HOUSE AD
At the last minute we needed a house/filler ad for one of our Christmas sections. I had noticed this fantastic snowman art on Metro previously and knew I wanted to use it, and this presented the perfect opportunity. With the addition of a quirky headline and our logo, we had our house ad. (Submitted by Matt, Black Press)
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The Telegram has helped sponsor this promotion along with several other businesses to raise funds for God's Pantry during the holiday season. This promotion has raised as much as $860.00 which was all donated to God's Pantry as well as any left over goodies. (Submitted by Vicki, The Norton Telegram)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST B&W SHOP LOCAL PAGE
Double page spread encouraging shoppers to shop locally (Submitted by Vicki, The Norton Telegram)
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HONORABLE MENTION: B&W HOLIDAY GREETINGS GROUP PAGE
Page of small personalized greetings from business owners (Submitted by Vicki, The Norton Telegram)
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Every year we do a Christmas Coupon Book and these are just a few of the ads I did in it. (Submitted by June, Dyersville Commercial)
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Every year we do a Christmas Coupon Book and these are just a few of the ads I did in it. (Submitted by June, Dyersville Commercial)
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HONORABLE MENTION: FESTIVE CITY COUNCIL HOLIDAY PAGE
This is the City of Nashville ad in our new Moments and Memories book to go out the week of Thanksgiving. (Submitted by Cindy, Chanute)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CUTE & COLORFUL RESTAURANT AD
This is the El Indio ad for our new Moments and Memories book to go out the week of Thanksgiving. (Submitted by Cindy, Chanute)
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This is the Chamber of Commerce ad for our new Moments and Memories book that will go out the week of Thanksgiving. (Submitted by Cindy, Chanute)
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This Pawn shop sells a lot of guns and ammo and wanted to promote that. I could not resist using Metro's Zombie for this Halloween ad. (Submitted by Kristi, Louisiana Suburban Press)
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Our Halloween edition was full of kids in SCARY costumes. Metro's graphics helped me choose a cute theme for the cover of our section! (Submitted by Kristi, Louisiana Suburban Press)
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Gift tags for the clients for a page in one of our papers. (Submitted by Eilee, Tucson West Publishing)
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It's an ad that I did for a newspaper within our company that is distributed in Tucson Az. It's a monthly issue called Foothills News. (Submitted by Eileen, News Media Corp)
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HONORABLE MENTION: GOOD SOLUTION TO SHOWCASE MULTIPLE LISTINGS
Realty Company in Tucson Area that always has a holiday theme. They are time consuming and not the best pics of the houses. I like to have fun with the art and changing the cactus to suit. (Submitted by Eileen Terry, News Media Corp)
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Mother's are gentle and soft, so the ad was created to reflect that same gentleness and softness while listing a few things they offered to help those serving Mom on her honored holiday. (Submitted by Sherry, The Times Leader)
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Needed something to really draw attention, so the customers of this store would see that they were going to close for three days. (Submitted by Sherry, The Times Leader)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEVER HOLIDAY VET AD
It's a fun loving ad from one of our vet offices who wanted to let people know what they offered for dogs at Christmas in a creative way with "Fido's Wish List." (Submitted by Sherry, The Times Leader)
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Thanksgiving Produce for Reid's Grocery Store in South Carolina (Submitted by Corey, The Augusta Chronicle)
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HONORABLE MENTION: EFFECTIVE BABY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS SALES FLYER
Sales flyer marketing Baby's First Christmas sales event for The Augusta Chronicle. (Submitted by Corey, The Augusta Chronicle)
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We were working on a holiday gift guide and this is what I came up with. (Submitted by Jackie, Sun Coast Media Group, Inc.)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEAN AND APPEALING HOLIDAY DESIGN
Working on a Christmas Gift Guide and this is what we came up with. (Submitted by Jackie, Sun Coast Media Group, Inc.)
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This ad was created for a local department store showcasing their holiday sales. (Submitted by Sarah, The Belton Journal)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEVER WAY TO TIE INTO A HOLIDAY SECTION
This ad was created for our newspaper's Itsy the Elf holiday tab as a way to wish our readers a happy holiday. (Submitted by Sarah, The Belton Journal)
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This ad was created for a local funeral home and published in our newspaper's 4th of July Magazine (Submitted by Sarah, The Belton Journal)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEVER HOLIDAY WEB AD PROMOTION
This is an ad to prompt viewers to our sister site to see Santa as he travels around the world Christmas Eve! (Submitted by Nicole, The Keene Sentinel)
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This is a fun ecard for our viewers to send to their friends. They have to search through the rooms to find the Elf on the Shelf. I used many different metro images and animated different elements in each room. This was a really fun project with great artwork! (Submitted by Nicole, The Keene Sentinel)
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HONORABLE MENTION: ENTICING HOLIDAY RECIPE WEB PROMO
This is an animated ad to send viewers to our sister site to view holiday recipes. I used a combination of Metro images and flash animated to make a clear, classy ad (Submitted by Nicole, The Keene Sentinel)
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Local Christmas Craft ad (Submitted by PennyWise Ads)
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This ad is for 3 popular merchants in our little town, for the holiday season. (Submitted by PennyWise Ads)
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2013 Holiday Travel tab cover (Submitted by Anne, Lewiston Tribune)
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HONORABLE MENTION: VERY CREATIVE CRAFT FAIR WEB AD
This was made for a local craft fair. I wanted to express the holiday excitement that local events can create in our community, so I had Santa come along, changing the b&w world to color and inging a nice snowfall along with him! (Submitted by Tim, The Keene Sentinel)
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Lewiston Tribune House ad that inserted into Festival of Trees (Submitted by Anne, Lewiston Tribune)
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In Davis, CA you could expect to see a scene just like this during the fall. I chose this image to poke fun at our little turkey town and hopefully give our readers a chuckle. (Submitted by Rita Okusako, The Davis Enterprise)
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Christmas ad for a local flower shop advertising their holiday decorating services (Submitted by Samantha, The Colletonian - Colleton News Corporation)
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HONORABLE MENTION: APPEALING LADIES NIGHT OUT PROMOTION
Christmas ad for late night Christmas shopping in our local downtown shops. (Submitted by Samantha, The Colletonian - Colleton News Corporation)
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A Christmas ad for a local boutique announcing late night shopping. (Submitted by Samantha, The Colletonian - Colleton News Corporation)
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HONORABLE MENTION: FUN HOLIDAY SHOP LOCAL IDEA
The neighborhood community of St. Clair Shores, Michigan wanted to host an inaugural "Light up the Night" event in the quaint shopping district at 9 Mile Rd. and Mack Ave. The 9/Mack merchants offered a local non-perishable food drive, complimentary cookies, hot cocoa and kettle corn while the local high school band played tunes up and down the closed-off street. Merchandise discounts, vocal performances and free coffee was offered by many of the merchants. Luminaries and a tree was lighted during the event. I created a center spread advertisement featuring glowing lights on a black background illustrating the "Lighting up the Night" theme. The advertisers loved the final result and those who did not participate this year have expressed their desire to definitely be apart of this advertisement next year! (Submitted by Mary, The Grosse Pointe News)
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This jewelry advertiser is very well known in the upscale neighborhoods of the "Grosse Pointes" and wanted a classy look to their advertisement for a 4 color, 32 page glossy Holiday Gift Guide. The gold background gives the ad a rich look that forces the eye towards the sales offers. This advertisement can also be used for a New Years Eve sale as the color and design of the background looks similar to champagne! (Submitted by Mary, The Grosse Pointe News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLASSIC HOLIDAY EVENT POSTER
Every year, Chardon Square Association does a Christmas Lighting Ceremony and Meet Mr. and Mrs Claus. I designed this poster / ad to help advertise the event both in our papers and around the town. Chardon Ohio is a very quaint, old-fashioned town and this ad embodies the whole feeling of the town during the Christmas holidays. (Submitted by Debby, The Good News)
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A nice simple Christmas ad for a local company. (Submitted by Woody Verity )
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An ad with a lot of information! For a local church, my first contest submission :) (Submitted by Woody Verity )
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I have entered three entries: One for Canada Day, July 1st, one for St Patricks Day and one for Valentine's Day (Submitted by Verna, South Peace News)
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This ad was made for the yearly Christmas Chaos event. Though it may look busy, so is the Christmas season. (Submitted by Hailey, Fox Creek Times)
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For an elegant formal event, I created an elegant Christmas ad. (Submitted by Hailey, Fox Creek Times)
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This ad was created for our Coupon Book that runs at the end of every month. (Submitted by Connie, The Press/North Ridgeville Press)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEVER & CUTE VALENTINE'S DAY DINER AD
This ad was created for a small local diner. He wanted hearts for Valentine's Day but also something different. I found the talking cheeseburgers, added some eyelashes and lips to the one cheeseburger and made it totally kitschy. He loved it. (Submitted by Connie, The Press/North Ridgeville Press)
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This ad was made for the St. Patrick's day festivities at a local sports pub. (Submitted by Connie, The Press/North Ridgeville Press)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY HOUSE AD
House ad for our newspaper for the Christmas season. (Submitted by Jerad, Claremore Daily Progress)
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This ad is created for our paper just for the Christmas holiday. (Submitted by Jerad, Claremore Daily Progress)
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Holiday ad from the staff of the newspaper. (Submitted by Jerad, Claremore Daily Progress)
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HONORABLE MENTION: MANY GREAT IDEAS ROLLED INTO ONE
We did a double truck on "How To Bake a Turkey" and "I am thankful for.." for our Thanksgiving edition. I couldn't pass up the cute clipart Metro provides for this page. (Submitted by Annie, Clinton Watchman)
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HONORABLE MENTION: VETERAN'S DAY TRIBUTE PAGE
This was a page we did for Saluting our Veterans, Metro has the best Veterans art work to honor Veterans. (Submitted by Annie, Clinton Watchman)
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HONORABLE MENTION: NICE JULY 4TH PHOTOSHOP EFFORT
This ad was composed using several photographs from Metro Creative Connection. It was then then digitally drawn in five layers to achieve the emotion of patriotism and drama that a young person feels every 4th of July. (Submitted by Dan, Choctaw Sun Advocate)
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This ad is to draw the attention to the less fortunate children, those children who do not have a bed to lay their heads on. It is to help communicate the need of these children in hopes that those reading it will give their all in helping them ing the simplest of dreams to fruition. (Submitted by Nikita, Beaver County Times)
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HONORABLE MENTION: VETERAN'S DAY HOME PAGE TRIBUTE
To honor veterans on Veterans Day, the local newspaper in Fort Walton Beach that I design showcased a local vet who fought in World War II and is proud of his service to our country. I had two local photos and got the background from Metro Creative, which I found very fitting for this package. (Submitted by Jennifer, Halifax Media Group)
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HONORABLE MENTION: IMPRESSIVE SHOP LOCAL GROUP PAGE
Each year we do a similar set of ads encouraging our readers to be a hometown hero by shopping locally. I usually do three versions of the ad, which are run once in each of three of our publications. The names of the businesses are rotated for each one too. I love searching for new graphics on Metro each year to add to the fun of these ads. (Submitted by Christy, Denison Bulletin & Review)
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Each year, we print a page on Halloween safety awareness. This year, the goal was to make it noticeable, even for children (Submitted by Angela, The Greenup County News-Times)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST HALLOWEEN SAFETY PAGE
Each year, we feature a Halloween safety page with various advertisiers to remind young trick or treaters to be careful and have fun. (Submitted by Angela, The Greenup County News-Times)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST ST. PAT'S DAY SIG PAGE
This is a sig page created for St. Patrick's Day early last spring. (Submitted by Angela, The Greenup County News-Times)
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Full color ad for local car dealership for seasonal promotional booklet. (Submitted by William, CNI Inc.)
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HONORABLE MENTION: FUN AND CLEVER GOLF AD
"12 Daves of Christmas!" Uses multiple Metro elements. (Submitted by Kristin, The Moneysaver)
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For our Valentines edition this customer wanted to advertise his fresh meat. I came up with this cute saying for his ad... GET FRESH FOR VALENTINES DAY! (Submitted by Wendy, St. Francisville Democrat)
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HONORABLE MENTION: COMMUNITY HEART MONTH AD
For national heart health month I designed this ad for our local hospital here. (Submitted by Wendy, St. Francisville Democrat)
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I fell in love with this photo the first time I saw it. It inspired me to create a shop locally ad for our paper, which will print in grayscale, and upload to our internet in full color. (Submitted by Cyndi, Custer County Chief)
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This is a house subscription ad which we are running during the winter season (Submitted by Susan, Country Media)
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This was a newspaper ad for a local businesses that was creating a new even for shoppers around the Holiday shopping time frame. It was to ing awareness to all of the shops in this city. (Submitted by Jennifer, GMD Media)
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Special section insert into our weekly newspaper publication for Dazzle Daze 2013. All ads were full color with the information provided by the customer. (Submitted by Jennifer, GMD Media)
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This was a full color ad for a front page special page for a nearby city that offers an Appreciation Day for customers during the holiday season. (Submitted by Jennifer, GMD Media)
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This ad is to invite our community (21 and over) to a drawing to win a variety of alcohol products! (Submitted by Elizabeth, Main Street Media)
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A local church asked me to create an ad for our newspaper inviting people to come trick-or-treat! (Submitted by Elizabeth, Main Street Media)
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This ad is to invite the community celeate our annual lighted Christmas parade! (Submitted by Elizabeth, Main Street Media)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST AUTO, 4-PAGE, WRAP, SPREAD
Black Friday isn't just for Americans anymore. Many Canadian retailers and businesses are hopping on the band wagon. This 4-page car spread, which was stapled around the outside of our paper, couldn't have been done without use of the vehicle artwork from Metro Creative Connection. I tinted the windows in PS and added a filter or two, and voila, a Black Friday ad series was born. (Submitted by Matt, Black Press)
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The customer wanted Christmas lights placed in their ad and I loved the colors of these, as well as the other elements which I was able to manipulate in the same color scheme. Also the food art from metro was perfect! (Submitted by Kim, Hutchinson News)
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I used the soft colors of this Metro background and incorporated the colors of the christmas ornaments to make this attractive ad for the Pratt Chamber. (Submitted by Kim, Hutchinson News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: SMALL SPACED AD THAT DELIVERS
The customer wanted a family in a Holiday theme for their ad and metro had many to choose from. I like the way this art was used as a background to soften the look of the ad. (Submitted by Kim, Hutchinson News)
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We have moonlight madness in our town and I had to make an ad to indicate our local tree lighting. I chose this background because it seemed to suit the ad really well. (Submitted by Wendy, The Exponent)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST LOCAL GOV/SERVICES GREETINGS AD
This was created for our "Holiday Greetings" section. This section allows our advertisers to wish their patrons and our readers well during the holiday season. (Submitted by Lydia, Register Publications)
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This is an ad showcasing a new Halloween attraction in our area. (Submitted by Lydia, Register Publications)
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This is an ad created for our local country club's Mother's Day unch. (Submitted by Lydia, Register Publications)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST DESIGN WITH A CLASSIC TWIST
The challenge for the ad was to be able to combine a lot of different elements into one cohesive piece, while keeping the elements separate and not overwhelming the viewer. (Submitted by Jarrod, The Sentinel Corporation)
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This was a Valentine's Day ad for a local greenhouse. They wanted something bold and elegant at the same time. (Submitted by Jarrod, The Sentinel Corporation)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST MEMORIAL DAY GROCERY AD
Ad design for County Market Memorial Day speical by Angie (Submitted by Angie, The Booster Advertising Publications)
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Ad designed for County Markets St. Patricks specials-by Angie (Submitted by Angie, The Booster Advertising Publications)
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HONORABLE MENTION: EYE-CATCHING JULY 4TH APPLIANCE AD
Ad designed for Bergmann's 4th of July sale of products made in the USA. by Tricia, The Booster Advertising Publications (Submitted by Tricia, The Booster Advertising Publications)
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Candy is big business at Halloween. Thanks to Metro, Charlie's Chocolates ad came out looking better than the rest. (Submitted by Leslie, Black Press)
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HONORABLE MENTION: QUICK SUCCESS
We had an ad for a costume shop come in about 10 minutes before deadline. Metro to the rescue. In less than 10 minutes the ad was built, proofed and ready to be sent to the press. (Submitted by Leslie, Black Press)
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I wanted to use something more than the usual chocolate-covered strawberries for this Valentine's Day ad. When I came across this artwork it screamed chocolate which in turn screamed Valentine's Day! (Submitted by Leslie, Black Press)
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The Mantorville Chamber of Commerce wanted an ad advertising an upcoming festival called an Olde Fashioned Christmas. I used two Metro photos. Because of the "Olde" theme, I muted the colors of the Santa and then "hand-painted" the reds back in. I also wanted to use humor in the ad, so I have Santa eyeing a plate full of cookies. (Submitted by Rick, Community News Corp)
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This is an ad I designed for a fund-raising spook house using some great art from Metro and some very Halloween-ish typography. (Submitted by Rick, Community News Corp)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST CLASSIFIED AD
Christmas ad promotion created using Metro Creative elements. (Submitted by Chrystal, Okanagan Valley Newspaper Group)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLASSIC HOLIDAY COLORING CONTEST
Annual Christmas Greetings Colouring Contest created using Metro Creative elements. (Submitted by Chrystal, Okanagan Valley Newspaper Group)
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2013 Holiday Magazine cover - printed on glossy paper. Published on Sunday, November 24, 2013 as a special section with the Hutchinson Newspaper. All imagery came from Metro except typography and the 3 icons used next to recipes, gift ideas & holiday stories. (Submitted by Marcos, The Hutchinson News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: HONORING A SPECIAL FAMILY OF VETERANS
This is page from the Veterans Day special section which was published November 10, 2013 in The Hutchinson Newspaper. It is a customer paid full page ad in the special section describing a family's support in the service. (Submitted by Marcos, The Hutchinson News)
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This is a half page ad for Adrian's Boutique that was printed on glossy paper. It was published in the 2013 Holiday Magazine special section. Published date November 24, 2013. (Submitted by Marcos, The Hutchinson News)
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This is a Valentine's ad I designed for a local floral shop. Everyone loves roses on Valentine's Day and this photo caught everyone's eye. (Submitted by Robin, Sauk Valley Media)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST HVAC AD
I designed this Christmas ad for a local heating and air conditioning business. It ran in the Thanksgiving Day paper as a craft wrap, which is what holds the inserts in the paper. They are printed on ighter and heavier paper so it made this already sharp photo really pop. (Submitted by Robin, Sauk Valley Media)
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I designed this ad for a local fall festival. The graphic really draws your eye to the center of attention and gets you in the mood for some fall fun. (Submitted by Robin, Sauk Valley Media)
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HONORABLE MENTION: HOLIDAY ELVES MULTIPLE-ADVERTISER AD
Our gift card page features local businesses who are marketing their gift cards as the perfect holiday gift. (Submitted by Jessica Deel, The Lufkin News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEVER PET SERVICES AD
A local pet boarding and grooming business wanted to wish all the pets and their humans Happy Howlidays! (Submitted by Jessica Deel, The Lufkin News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: A SOUND WAY TO APPROACH A TOUGH SUBJECT
One local hearing aid retailer offered a spectacular incentive to customers to get their hearing evaluation, a free turkey for Thanksgiving! (Submitted by Jessica, The Lufkin News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST JULY 4TH COMMUNITY EVENT PROMOTION
This is an ad for the Independence Day annual downtown celeation. Of course, it features stock art from Metro! (Submitted by Alaina, Elizabethton Star)
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This is a house ad for our local newspaper of Elizabethtown, TN encouraging readers to submit recipes for our upcoming special section. (Submitted by Alaina, Elizabethton Star)
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This is a house ad for our local newspaper of Elizabethtown, TN promoting our subscription special. (Submitted by Alaina, Elizabethton Star)
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Car Dealership advertisement. (Submitted by Rachel, Spirit of Jefferson)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLEAN AND FESTIVE AUTO AD
Local car dealership that runs constantly with us. We always use only Metro Creative graphics for our ads. Thank you. (Submitted by Rachel, Spirit of Jefferson)
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Halloween for Tivoli Fashions, that ran in The Hoosier Times (Bloomington, IN) (Submitted by Matthew, Schurz Communications)
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Christmas ad for Beaver Creek Antique Market, that ran in The Herald Mail (Hagerstown, MD) (Submitted by Matthew, Schurz Communications)
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HONORABLE MENTION: CLASSIC AND CLEAN ANTIQUES AD
Christmas ad for Valley Antiques & Uniques, that ran in The Herald Mail (Hagerstown, MD) (Submitted by Matthew, Schurz Communications)
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Part of our Christmas Itsy's Piggy Bank Promotion for December. (Submitted by Traci, The Light and Champion)
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HONORABLE MENTION: AUTO COLLISION BANNER AD
Part of the Itsy Christmas Story. I wanted to show fun loving winter friends driving. Plus I like Santas scaring the reindeer with his driving. (Submitted by Traci, The Light and Champion)
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I wanted to have a spooky but fun Halloween ad. Plus with the thanks to the funeral home, I felt the artwork was perfect. (Submitted by Traci, The Light and Champion)
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Christmas ad for local ups store (Submitted by Jennifer, The Lufkin News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST JULY 4TH BANNER AD
Fourth of July ad for local sewing company (Submitted by Jennifer, The Lufkin News)
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Halloween ad for candy company (Submitted by Jennifer, The Lufkin News)
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Halloween Page for adults. Includes a lot of bars or places really not suitable for kids. This ad is for the Prison located about 80 miles from here. It's become famous for how haunted it is. (Submitted by Tiffany, Rocket-Miner)
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Halloween Page for adults. Includes a lot of bars, which is what this ad is for, or places really not suitable for kids. (Submitted by Tiffany, Rocket-Miner)
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We run a full color football contest page every Friday during the football season in our local newspaper. This was one of the companies to help sponsor the contest right before Thanksgiving hit this year. (Submitted by Tiffany, Rocket-Miner)
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Here is London Kentucky, we are very excited for the upcoming holiday season. The entire staff, along with myself, take great pride in our work, and like to help Christmas shine a little ighter with our advertising. With each ad, we try to not only ad a little bit more Christmas cheer into the community, but also make our ads as personal as possible. We do this by using contributing things with a local vibe, and not just doing "cookie cutter" design. I hope you enjoy these designs of the many that are designed here at The Sentinel-Echo. (Submitted by James Marcum, The Sentinel-Echo)
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HONORABLE MENTION: EYE-CATCHING CREDIT UNION AD
These are just a few of the many ads that have been designed here at The Sentinel-Echo for this holiday season. We take great pride in our work, and do our best to keep from having just cookie cutter designs. We try to personalize the ads based on our community, which helps draw customers to the advertised business. Merry Christmas Metro! (Submitted by James, The Sentinel-Echo)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY SERVICES PAGE
This was a faith listing for upcoming holiday services in our local area. It was created for our Timeless Traditions Holiday Guide publication as a full page special. (Submitted by Mikey, Studley Printing & Publishing, Inc.)
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This was a Halloween Safety special for our weekly newspaper, the Lake Champlain Weekly. A good use of many different Metro elements combined to create something spooky and fun! (Submitted by Mikey, Studley Printing & Publishing, Inc.)
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This is the Thanksgiving insert that goes into the grocery ads of the customers that choose to do their retail advertising with our wholesale grocery supply company. (Submitted by Angela, Winkler Wholesale Grocer)
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2013 Veteran's Day ad. (Submitted by Angela, Winkler Wholesale Grocer)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST THANKSGIVING GROCERY AD
This is a newspaper insert for area grocery stores during the week of Thanksgiving. (Submitted by Rachel, Winkler Wholesale Grocers)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST HOLIDAY GROCERY AD
This is part of a newspaper insert for area grocery stores during the Christmas holiday. (Submitted by Rachel, Winkler Wholesale Grocers)
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A Holiday ad designed for one of our best beer distributing advertisers. (Submitted by Joanna, Mainline Newspapers)
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Christmas ad for a new business which opened in Ebensburg. (Submitted by Joanna, Mainline Newspapers)
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Holiday Ad for a fitness center and physical therapy facility in the Mainline area. (Submitted by Joanna, Mainline Newspapers)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED MASSAGE THERAPY AD
I built this full page Christmas ad for Beach City Massage for their holiday specials. (Submitted by Matt, The Baytown Sun)
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I built this ad for Hibachi Grill for their Thanksgiving Specials. (Submitted by Matt, The Baytown Sun)
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Yet, another ad I built for Hibachi Grill for Mother's Day (Submitted by Matt, The Baytown Sun)
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This was a Halloween Safety sig page I put together and sponsors were sold. (Submitted by Misty, Rensselaer Republican)
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Halloween party! (Submitted by Misty, Rensselaer Republican)
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HONORABLE MENTION: INVITING SHOP LOCAL PROMOTION
Our newspapers put together a Holiday Expo and invited the public - this is the invite info I put together (Submitted by Misty, Rensselaer Republican)
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Christmas Specials (Submitted by Amy, The Ulysses News)
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Christmas Special. I began working in Feuary of this year and have came a long way since. I am very pleased with my work. (Submitted by Amy, The Ulysses News)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEST HALLOWEEN PARTY AD
A simple ad created for a local bar. (Submitted by Amy, Pinedale Roundup)
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This ad is one in a series of ads for the Elmira Gift Outlet where the offer is typeset to draw the eye down to a Christmas element. (Submitted by Jake, The Observer)
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HONORABLE MENTION: OUTSTANDING B&W PARADE PROMOTION
This ad was used to advertise our local Santa Claus Day parade. It is made up of a couple different Metro Creative vectors. (Submitted by Jake, The Observer)
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HONORABLE MENTION: A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE PAGE
I like to layer my art, so I used a flag & silhouette background with the banner & Veterans Day header over it. I also used a photo of a memorial that one of our reporters had taken to tie it in locally. Our town had just received one of 22 Governor's Hometown Awards a week before the holiday for the veterans memorial that was constructed. (Submitted by Tiffany, Canton Daily Ledger)
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"Win your Wish" is a contest our newspaper developed anding for in partnership with the Downtown Maple Ridge BIA. The goal of the Ad was to draw audiences in to see the great prize packs available when shopping locally in the downtown core for the holidays. I wanted the Ad to be colourful, have strong contrast and jump off the page when in print, but stand a part from your typical holiday advertising that gets lost at this time of year. Thank you for considering my entry! (Submitted by Carly, Black Press)
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This was a coloring page in our October 30, 2013 edition for the Burns Times-Herald. I created it in order to make a change for the first time in years. The coloring contest was a great success and I had a load of fun building it! (Submitted by Phylicia, Times-Herald)
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This ad was created for the Hospice of the Rock River Valley and was to showcase all the events of the Festival of Trees! (Submitted by Matt, Sauk Valley Media)
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This ad was created for Behrens Country Village using Metro art to showcase their fall sale as-well-as events happening at Behrens during the Holidays! (Submitted by Matt, Sauk Valley Media)
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HONORABLE MENTION: SIMPLE & EYE-CATCHING HALLOWEEN EVENT AD
This ad was created for Sterling Pavilion using Metro art! (Submitted by Matt, Sauk Valley Media)
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I created a Christmas ad for my local hospital. They wanted to make their logo have features like a Christmas tree so I fixed it up with a lil help from Metro! (Submitted by Caleb, Hunt Regional Medical Center)
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I created a Thanksgiving ad for a local hospital that wanted to just include their logos. (Submitted by Caleb, Hunt Regional Medical Center)
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HONORABLE MENTION: BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY HOUSE AD
My Publication needed me to create a house ad to run throughout December so I jazzed up the background surrounding the Photo. (Submitted by Caleb, Hunt Regional Medical Center)
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This is a house ad promoting our special Veterans sections. (Submitted by Carrie, North Platte Telegraph)
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HONORABLE MENTION: INVITING HOLIDAY HOME DESIGN
This ad was promoting the Carousel of Homes for Christmas (Submitted by Brenda, North Platte Telegraph)
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Celeating Veterans Day, and thanking Veterans for their service (Submitted by Brenda, North Platte Telegraph)
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HONORABLE MENTION: FUN USE OF CARTOONS
Local grocer likes to "theme" his ads weekly... and loves cartoons and graphics. (Submitted by Barbara, The Valley Press)
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HONORABLE MENTION: MOST UNIQUE AD ENTRY
Local female roller derby team is having a Thanksgiving theme game. Inspired by a Seinfield Thanksgiving episode this poster was created using a turkey image from Metro. (Submitted by Michael, Studley Printing & Publishing, Inc.)
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HONORABLE MENTION: A VERY HONORABLE TRIBUTE
This is a 4 page section created to commemorate local veterans. Numerous Metro art was used to pull the whole section together. (Submitted by Leila, Daily Jefferson County Union)
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This ad was published in the New York Mills Dispatch for the towns local C&C advertising for their local pumpkin patch to celeate the fall season (Submitted by Carly, New York Mills Dispatch)
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