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Editorial Team

Peter Rundlet

Editor-in-Chief

Holly Schulz

Managing Editor

Contributing Editors:

Grace Carryer

Stephanie Firestone

Jeffrey Gullo

Vijeth Iyengar

Carl Levesque

Awards

AIGA 50 Award

Most recently, The Journal 2019 edition was honored with the AIGA 50 award.

PGAMA

Excellence in Print Awards/Best of Category (2016).

Association Trends All-Media Award: "Silver"

For all of the hundreds of national and international submissions, only three awards are given in the category of large organization annual or quarterly publication. The Journal received the Silver award.

15th Annual communicator awards: “gold”

The Communicator Awards is a leading international awards program honoring creative excellence in communication for a range of media.

2009 Hermes Creator Awards: “Platinum”

Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs and emerging technologies.

2008 MarCom Platinum Award

This is the highest honor conferred by the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals, and the international competition receives over 5,000 entries. The award recognizes outstanding communication concepts, writing, and design of publications and marketing communications.

Creativity 38 Platinum Award (2008)

This is the Best-in-Category award for magazines and journals, and highest honor awarded by the 38-year-old competition. Thousands of entries come from 44 countries around the globe, and the winners are celebrated at an annual gala event. In addition, the winning entries are profiled in a prestigious hardbound book that is distributed worldwide by Harper Collins.

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