Addy Awards

About the same time that Italian filmmaker Roberto Benigni was gleefully thanking the world for the first of his two Academy Awards, Paula Weiser was on a smaller stage doing a similar thing. Although she didn't climb around on chairs or kiss all those within arms' reach, the big winner at last week's 1999 Addy Awards ceremony was plenty proud. "It's an honor to be recognized like that," said the 34-year-old president of Weiser Litho Inc., a Westlake Village printing and design company.

About the same time that Italian filmmaker Roberto Benigni was gleefully thanking the world for the first of his two Academy Awards, Paula Weiser was on a smaller stage doing a similar thing. Although she didn't climb around on chairs or kiss all those within arms' reach, the big winner at last week's 1999 Addy Awards ceremony was plenty proud. "It's an honor to be recognized like that," said the 34-year-old president of Weiser Litho Inc., a Westlake Village printing and design company.

Kodiak Communications of Moorpark, a marketing, advertising and public relations agency, has won five Addy awards, including the Certificate of Excellence for its packaging design for firearms manufacturer Phoenix Arms. The Addy awards are given out every year by the Ventura County Advertising Club. Besides the Certificate of Excellence, Kodiak won Addys for radio advertising, television advertising, product packaging and corporate promotions.

Kodiak Communications of Moorpark, a marketing, advertising and public relations agency, has won five Addy awards, including the Certificate of Excellence for its packaging design for firearms manufacturer Phoenix Arms. The Addy awards are given out every year by the Ventura County Advertising Club. Besides the Certificate of Excellence, Kodiak won Addys for radio advertising, television advertising, product packaging and corporate promotions.

An Apple Computer commercial that features a wheelchair-bound teen-ager zipping around Venice Beach took top honors at a major advertising awards ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles. The Apple commercial, set to the tune of Randy Newman's happy-go-lucky song, "I'm Different," is in sharp contrast to the much harder edge of Apple's current ad campaign about executives in tense business situations.

Laure Haile knows a thing or two about dancing. In fact, she wrote the book on it--"The Arthur Murray Dance Notebook." She's danced in dozens of movies. And she's won enough ballroom dancing trophies to fill--well--a ballroom. When it comes to advertising, however, the 75-year-old Burbank dance instructor admits she doesn't know diddley. Oh sure, she runs a small advertisement in the Burbank yellow pages.

Talbot Design Group, a Westlake Village graphics concern, won three first-place Addy Awards in the recent Ventura County Ad Club competition. The design firm was honored for its corporate identity, print campaign and promotions, and outdoor banner. The print and outdoor work was done for the Farmers Market in Los Angeles. Talbot is a 9-year-old agency whose clients include GTE Visnet and The Oaks mall.

Ventura Printing took top honors in both the Ventura and Santa Barbara Advertising Club Addy Awards. In addition to various awards of merit, Ventura Printing won three Addys in Santa Barbara's competition and three in the Ventura contest. The winning pieces, recognized for their technical print quality, were produced for Simple Shoes, Gramicci Clothing, Sprint Communications, Mentor Corp., Christie Design Corp. and Sprecher Design House.

A Los Angeles County agency, Mustang Marketing & Advertising, won 11 awards in the 1994 competition sponsored by the Ventura County Ad Club. Mustang, based in Agoura Hills, took five first-place "Addy" awards in the presentation last month at the Ventura Theatre in downtown Ventura. The agency received top prizes in categories for logo design, radio commercials, print copy writing, announcements and self-promotion.

Cigar shoved in the corner of his mouth, finger pointing at you, you and you, Mistah Big gives the order: "Grab your wise guyz and let's pay the Holden Boys a little visit." The Holden Boys are the owners of Holden Color printing company in Newbury Park. And Mistah Big was the star of a 1940s-style, gangster-theme, four-part mailer advertising the company's February 1997 open house.

An Apple Computer commercial that features a wheelchair-bound teen-ager zipping around Venice Beach took top honors at a major advertising awards ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles. The Apple commercial, set to the tune of Randy Newman's happy-go-lucky song, "I'm Different," is in sharp contrast to the much harder edge of Apple's current ad campaign about executives in tense business situations.

Laure Haile knows a thing or two about dancing. In fact, she wrote the book on it--"The Arthur Murray Dance Notebook." She's danced in dozens of movies. And she's won enough ballroom dancing trophies to fill--well--a ballroom. When it comes to advertising, however, the 75-year-old Burbank dance instructor admits she doesn't know diddley. Oh sure, she runs a small advertisement in the Burbank yellow pages.

Ventura County advertising firms want the big agencies in Los Angeles and other major metropolitan areas to know that they exist. And Barbara Brown Marketing & Design, a small, home-based operation in Ventura, has gone a long way to doing just that. The Ventura company competed in the recent American Advertising Federation's 1996 national awards competition.

* Michael Edell, president and CEO of jeTECH Data Systems Inc. in Camarillo, has joined the Young Presidents' Organization. The group, an alliance of nearly 8,500 CEOs and senior executives from 71 countries, is designed for business professionals under age 44. Edell, 36, founded jeTECH in 1983 to develop software for labor resource planning.