April 25, 2003
Contact: Bret Bleggi (509-963-1607/fax 509-963-2424/e-mail: bleggib@cwu.edu)
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Central Washington University was among
the winners at the 2003 Chinook Awards Competition sponsored by the
Yakima Chapter of the American Advertising Federation. Four university
designers were honored for their work with six awards during this
year’s event.
The annual Chinook Awards recognize excellence in print,
radio, television and other media produced in central and southeastern
Washington. Advertising professionals, educators and students, within
a 100-mile radius of Yakima, are eligible to enter.
The CWU award winners were Rosario Herrera, who received
“Best of Show,” “Excellent,” and “Best of Show Nominee” awards in the
“collateral material poster campaign” division; Glen Bach, a CWU
graphic design professor, earned an “Excellent” award; Nance Bracken
picked up a “Merit” award in the “collateral material poster single”
division; and, Susan Burghart got a “Merit” award in the “collateral
material brochure four color” category.
Herrera’s winning entry was for a theatre arts poster; Bach’s
poster was for the university Symposium on Undergraduate Research and
Creative Expression (SOURCE); Bracken was honored for her music
department poster; and Burghart for the university acceptance book for
incoming students.
Produced through CWU graphics productions, all of the
university’s winning entries were printed by Abbott’s Printing in
Yakima.
This year, more than 143 entries were submitted in 13
divisions, involving 43 separate categories. Members of the Spokane
Advertising Federation judged this year’s entries, making a total of 55
awards.
