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The 10 Annual Summit Creative Awards, (www.summitawards.com) created to recognize work done by marketing creative firms and other creative groups with annual billings under $15 million or less.

Beyond Graphix is proud to anounce receiving a Siver Award from the Summit Creative Awards for the design of Cannabis Health Journal Anniversary Issue #7

Good to be back with Cannabis Health
At the end of November, 2004, 2 weeks before Vol 3#2 was to go to press, Barb St. Jean, also a Founding Director and current Editor for Cannabis Health, asked me to come back to help get this issue out, and to come back to active duty as Production Manager again. I accepted

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Beyond Graphix Takes Top International Creative Award - The 2004 Summit Creative Awards

May 4, 2004
Contact:
Brian McAndrew
Beyond Graphix
braphic@sunshinecable.com
250-442-3731
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Jocelyn Luciano - Executive Director
Summit Creative Awards
info@summitawards.com
(503) 297-9979

Beyond Graphix is a silver winner in the 2004 Summit Creative Awards® competition for its outstanding creative work for Cannabis Health.

As a one man design company (bio) in a small rural BC Canadian town, to get the recognition of my talents on such a scale, I can think of no higher honour. This particular issue, as the others, is also a great credit to the editor for collecting the ground breaking exclusive interviews that was the basis for the design itself.

The Summit Creative Awards, celebrating its tenth year, was created to recognize exceptional work by marketing creative firms including advertising agencies, video production companies, multimedia firms and other creative groups with annual billings of $15 million or less. It is the only opportunity such firms have to compete internationally.

This year's panel of judges included:
· Murray Berghan , Managing Director & Joint Creative Director A|D – Australia
· Kevin Hersh, Director of New Media, Mfx, Inc. – United States
· Max Semyak, Interactive Media, DDM Interactive – Ukraine
· Dean Kulbida, Senior Art Director, The Phoenix Group – Canada
· Tom Roy, Executive Director , Promoseven McCann Relationship Marketing – Dubai
· Austin Howe, Creative Director , Radioland – United States
· Henry Rassmusen, Creative Director , Scanad – Denmark
· Michael Mesic, Principle and Strategic Planner, Strategy and Beyond - United States
· Susana Tsui, Director, XM – Hong Kong.

Entries in 17 creative categories are judged against a stringent set of standards. Judges looked for innovative and creative concepts, strong executions and the ability to communicate and persuade. This year's competition received approximately 3,000 entries from 20 countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, England, India, Italy, Kuwait, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, The Netherlands, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and West Indies.

Winners were selected in categories that include print, broadcast, online advertising, multimedia, printed material, direct mail, sales promotion, political, corporate video, public service, best idea never produced and self-promotion.

Additional information about the Summit Creative Awards and a list of other winning firms can be found on the Summit Awards web site at http://www.summitawards.com.

When I was deciding to move to Grand Forks BC in 1996, I had the choice of getting graphic work in Vancouver, but moved to the small town because it was better for raising our children. The move provided a unique challenge of providing high quality design for small start up companies. When I moved here, I met with Brian Taylor who was heading up the Hemp movement because I felt that it need a new image. After 6 years the possiblility came about to produce Cannabis Health Journal. Brian took the position of Editor, I took the position of Production and with a skeleton crew and on a wing and a prayer we published the first issue of Cannabis Health Journal November/December 2002. On our winning Anniversary issue major design changes were implimented with the major change being the logo and cover layout.

As a one man production department it has given me the opportunity to expose myself to the world market. I would get stories in text format and some advertisments would come in camera ready, then I would put together the rest, including cover, journal layout advertising design and making sure it would be ready for the printer.

Of course production/design is only one part of it and it was the rest of the team that made everything work the way it did.

Cannabis Health Journal is one thing I am working on. At the same time I have several other commercial customers and volunteer work that I do as well.