February 7, 2012 »
Rockwell Collin's redesigned Horizons magazine makes winners short list. Ragan Communications announced the Employee Communications Awards and Rockwell Collins received honorable mention in two categories.
In late March, Ragan.com will post a special edition that will feature all winners and honorable mentions.
"We received hundreds of terrific entries in dozens of categories for online and print publications and other corners of the communications universe; the entries ran the gamut from heartfelt CEO letters to magazine issues done in 3-D. (The quality and quantity of the submissions have raised the bar for future years, so keep that in mind as you work your day-to-day magic; next year's awards will sneak up on us before you know it.)"
Best Long Feature Article (Print Publication)
Winner: Champion Technologies — "One Crisis. One Champion."
Honorable Mention: Emirates — "Celebrating three years of flying the Airbus A380"
Honorable Mention: Cash American International — "Bringing Honor"
Honorable Mention: Rockwell Collins — "Refueling innovation"
Honorable Mention: NW Natural — "Blue wants you to be cozy and comfortable"
Honorable Mention: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation — "Sikorsky SEAHAWK® Helicopters at HEART of JAPAN RESCUES The Story of Operation TOMODACHI"Most Improved Publication Design (Print Publication)
Winner: Tetra Tech, Inc. — TetraVision
Honorable Mention: Rockwell Collins, Horizons
Honorable Mention: Duke University, Duke Today Working@Duke
Honorable Mention: Pernod Ricard/Infopress Group, Horizontes
WDG is proud to be a part of this winning team.
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February 3, 2012 »
Baxter Construction will shine during the Iowa City Area Parade of Homes, June 2-10. We are underway with a new capabilities brochure. Great design-builder. Great people. Thanks. Jason and Nick.
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January 9, 2012 »
Beginning work on a retrospective exhibit book for the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art for an amazing Ely, Iowa potter, Clary Illian. Can't wait to see all the images. The exhibit at CRMA opens in September, 2012.
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January 3, 2012 »
The Winter 2011 -2012 issue of Business at Iowa (B@I), the alumni magazine for the University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business, is off to the printer. This marks the beginning of the 21st year that we have had the honor to design this magazine. We have worked with five editors and we have the best of the best right now. Thanks Barb and Lesanne! If you would like to see this issue, click here and flip through. It’s a real page-turner.
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March 24, 2011 »
WDG Publishing wins 2011Axiom Business Book Awards Gold Medal
WDG Publishing has been awarded the Gold medal for the 2010 title, Rockwell Collins: 75 Years of Innovation. The title was awarded the Gold Medal in the category of Corporate History/Milestone. The pictorial history of the first 75 years of Collins Radio Company and Rockwell Collins, Inc. was written by Kennard C. Braband and Bernard J. Smith. Rockwell Collins, Inc. was founded by Arthur A. Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and incorporated in 1933. There will be an awards celebration in New York in May.
The Axiom Business Book Awards annually celebrate excellence in business book writing and publishing by presenting gold, silver and bronze medals in 20 business categories. The annual awards contest is designed to bring increased recognition to the year’s best business books and their creators.
The goal of the awards is to celebrate the innovative, intelligent, and creative aspects of the books that make us think, see, and work differently every day. Business people are always looking for new ideas and solutions to their problems, and business book authors and publishers fill a niche with their informative and innovative books._____________________
February 21, 2011 »
WDG Communications was once again recognized for design excellence for the past year. The Advertising Federation of Cedar Rapids Iowa City awarded WDG Communications with three silver ADDYs and a Gold and Best of Category. Three silver ADDYs were for University of Dubuque Lanterns alumni magazine, Rockwell Collins 75 Years of Innovation book and our own Harker's Courthouses…Visions of an Iowa Icon book and one Gold and Best of Category for the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation 2009 annual report. Thank you to all the great clients that allowed it to happen.
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December 2010 »
Reliving history and celebrating their heritage,
EMC Insurance commemorates a century of serving business
and personal insurance needs with a pictorial history book.
July 1, 1914, found twenty-year-old George Mundy, Jr. making rounds as a helper on a horse-drawn ice wagon to supply customers’ iceboxes for Consumers Ice Company in Des Moines, Iowa. Mundy was new to the job—this was only his twenty-second day. Certainly, he was inexperienced with the technicalities of ice delivery. Suddenly, at 9th and School Streets, a block of ice slipped from his tongs and crashed onto his foot. Two hours later, when he returned the wagon to the plant, the pain sent him to Dr. Fred Alden, who bound up his bruise. The fledgling Employers Mutual Casualty Association of Iowa picked up the tab.
That was the first Workmen’s Compensation claim—called “medical only”—of Employers Mutual Casualty Association of Iowa (EMCA). It was filed the first day the Workmen’s Compensation section of the Iowa Employers Liability and Workmen’s Compensation statute became effective, the first day EMCA could legally do business as a Workmen’s Compensation insurer.
Employers Mutual Casualty Association was formed in 1911 to provide worker’s compensation insurance for its members. Today EMC Insurance has assets of over $3 billion and employs more than 2,100 employees in 16 locations across the country.
WDG Publishing has been named to design and publish a commemorative pictorial history book for the centennial celebration of EMC Insurance Companies of Des Moines, Iowa.
The book is due for release in Spring 2011.
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September 2010 »
New Horizons for WDG
WDG Communications, Inc. is excited to announce the inaugural issue of Rockwell Collins Horizons magazine redesign. This issue — Horizons Vol. 16, Issue 1 — introduces the new design direction. Larger images, contemporary typography treatments and a more open page layout are among the design changes.
The magazine which appeared in mailboxes on Dec. 10, 2010 is the culmination of a year-long undertaking. WDG was honored to be chosen as the firm charged with the task of completely redesigning the new Horizons magazine.
The new magazine incorporates a more open page layout, better use of white space for better readership, easy-to-read "snapshot" news items, contemporary typography treatment including the nameplate and larger images that are integrated into the overall page design.
"Our intent is to provide a magazine that is relevant, innovative and trusted, while also delivering a deeper-level understanding of our company [Rockwell Collins]," explained Dave Yeoman, senior director of Enterprise Communications.
Check out the newest issue of Horizons magazine online at issuu.com»
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July 2010 »
Hot off the press
Rockwell Collins, 75 Years of Innovation
We are excited to announce that the new book – Rockwell Collins, 75 Years of Innovation – is now available to employees, retirees and friends of Rockwell Collins for purchase. For order information, contact the Rockwell Collins Company Store at +1-319-295-5995 or at collinscompanystore@rockwellcollins.com.
Soft-paper cover: $15.99 • Hard-cover: $21.99 • Hard-cover in gift slipcase: $30.99
Prices do not include sales tax or shipping and handling charges.
See a sample with issuu.com »
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May 2010 »
First-place winner of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association Awards
WDG Publishing's 2009 release of Harker's Courthouses...Vision of an Iowa Icon by Michael Harker has been awarded the Midwest Independent Publishers Association's (MIPA) highest honor, the Bronze Medallion, as best in category for one- or two-color cover design. The awards ceremony was May 12, 2010 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
As one MIPA judge says, "yes, yes, yes – wanted to open it immediately!" And also, "Black-and white [photography] was a great choice for the subject matter – it allows the viewer to focus on the architectural detail."
Well-known and popular Iowa documentary photographer, Michael P. Harker has compiled a pictorial history of the beautiful and stately county courthouses of Iowa in his book Harker's Courthouse...Visions of an Iowa Icon. The volume of captivating black-and-white photography highlights 54 of Iowa's 100 county courthouses that are significant pre-1940 structures.
MIPA is a non-profit organization serving the Midwest publishing community. Founded in 1984, MIPA is an affiliate of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA).
