Astronaut won both Gold and Silver awards for work in various media for DuPont Industrial Biosciences and Alkota Cleaning Systems.

On top of that, this year’s ADDY Awards were extra special for Astronaut as we were asked to contribute the concept and design of the show. The theme, “Show Your Awesome” focused on performance and centered around three characters — the Matador, the Drum Major and the Luchador. We were pleased at the results thrilled with the response from the advertising community.

A big thanks goes out to collaborators SDAF, Studio Blu, Platinum Imagination and Lila Symons.

We were very proud of the work we did last year and excited for what the new year holds in store.

Astronaut created an infographic outlining the merits of the Renewable Fuel Standard to help facilitate the conversation.

Download a pdf of the infographic.

Naturally everyone at Astronaut is proud to have a third party validate what we already know — that “Brenni” ranks right beside the finest of the fine in a city full of high-caliber talent. The irony is that he didn’t even tell us about the piece right away. Which could make him the first person ever humbled by the Egoist.

In case you missed it, AdPulp did a Q&A session with Creative Director Greg Veerman talking about cleantech, sustainability and the Midwest advertising scene. The post went up last week and can be found here.

Hurry on over and check it out.

Thanks to David Burn for the opportunity.

We were pleased to go home with a handful of awards including numerous Golds and Silvers, as well as a Best in Class award for our Dark Matter Coffee packaging. It was an impressive showing of work all around the room and we were honored to be a part of it.

Here’s to another year of work for game-changing clients and the award winning work that follows.

Dark Matter went through numerous rounds of taste-testing in order to find the right marriage of flavors. The results yielded a custom blend of Guatemala Antigua Sereno and India Monsooned Malabar Arabica coffees roasted and hand-prepared by Black Sheep Coffee.

Designing the packaging was equally as painstaking. The coffee bag features a triumphant Pegasus, handmade of coffee grounds. Tiny flecks of coffee had to be pushed back and forth across the desk into their places using a combination of an X-Acto knife, spoon and the unintentional deep breath. The final arrangement was photographed and incorporated into the final bag design.

Dark Matter was recently featured along side some the best examples of packaging design on The Dieline, Packaging of the World, The Minneapolis Egotist and The Inspiration Room and awaits the results of awards season.

*Dark Matter is not for sale and is a strictly a private gift for our clients and vendors. For the real Dark Matter Coffee, no affiliation, visit here.

Hope you enjoy the fruits…er…grounds of our labor.

The recognition was earned for our work on the series of posters that we have been producing for the local Sioux Falls Green Drinks gatherings.

From the awards website, the competition is described as such:

” The Green Dot Awards is one of the world’s most prestigious green awards.  It was established with the intention to recognize outstanding products and services which are manufactured and delivered in an environmentally friendly manner.”

This is not the first time this poster series has received an award. It earned Best In Class at the 2010 Addys. Check out our portfolio to see the winning posters.

The behemoth of a trophy comes in recognition of our Alkota Print Campaign and is by far the heaviest trophy in the case.

We’re very proud of the work we’ve done and very excited about the work left to do with Alkota.

Check out the rest of our portfolio for more award winning work.

We earned recognition in the copywriting and brand video categories for Raven Industries’ Slingshot video, “The Field Is Always There” as well as in the copywriting category for Alkota Cleaning Systems’ brand video, “Office.”

We’re very proud of the Slinghsot and Alkota work and have had a blast working with both clients. The trophies are just the cherry on top.

Check out our portfolio to see the winning videos as well as our other work for Slingshot and Alkota.

EcoProducts is a Boulder, CO based company that is the nation’s leading supplier of single-use food service products made from recycled content and materials. EcoProducts has done some great things to soften the environmental impact of our consumption. EcoProducts recycles materials as much as possible to limit the need for virgin resources. If you had to boil it down, we humans developed a bad habit somewhere along the line of using disposable plates, knives, forks, napkins, cups, etc. EcoProducts in essence, makes our bad habit less bad. Now, I’m not at all suggesting that EcoProducts is any less green for it. Obviously, reusable cups, plates and the like are the best options and I have no doubt that EcoProducts feels the same. What EcoProducts offers is the lesser of two evils, one that is an important step in weening society off of single-use products.

EcoProducts recently made news when it unveiled the world’s first recycled content cup lid. Check out EcoLid 25.

Explanation of the Leaf of the Day.