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The Phillips Collection’s magazine features for 2011 included Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, and Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint, an exhibit of paintings and drawings featuring ballet dancers. Other featured exhibitions celebrated the work of such diverse artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Frank Stella, David Smith and Phillip Guston.

We designed the books and catalogs to accompany several exhibitions at The Phillips Collection this year: Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint, traced ballet in Edgar Degas’s art from the 1870s to 1900; David Smith Invents, co-published by The Phillips Collection and Yale Press, is the first definitive book on Smith that demonstrates how he blurred the boundaries between sculpture, painting, and drawing; In celebration of Morris Louis and his ties to the museum, The Phillips exhibited a recent acquisition, Seal, from 1959, along with other Louis paintings and drawings. We designed the exhibition catalog; The exhibition brochure for Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series marked the first museum presentation of sculptures from this series by leading American abstract artist Frank Stella.

Our redesign of St. Mary's College of Maryland alumni magazine, The Mulberry Tree, launched in November 2011. The magazine is named for the tree under which colonists signed a treaty with the Yaocomico people in the 1600s, and was a meeting spot for St. Mary’s students in the 19th century. The college's historic connections inspired the cover typography. Also for St. Mary's: a promotional kit for sponsors of the River Concert Series held every summer on campus – "Southern Maryland's version of Wolf Trap."

McDaniel College's 2010-11 Report of Gifts highlights twelve months of snapshots, in words and images, of the high points experienced by the campus community – from construction projects to faculty research to student achievements. We also designed a lively new calendar of events – McLive! –to be updated twice yearly and distributed to students, alumni, and friends. Also for McDaniel, we created an identity for a conference on Popular Romance that reflected the topic in an age of social media; and a logo celebrating the president’s inauguration that adds new meaning to McDaniel's "Changing Lives" tagline.

NJIT Magazine's highlights this year included nanoscale structures in the electromagnetic spectrum, tissue-engineering research, and materials science at Brookhaven’s National Synchrotron Light Source – all challenging topics to illustrate, but, we think, handled successfully.

We illustrated the cover story for Breakthrough about an innovative concept called the Pyramid Fund, in which hospital patients are given extras such as room heaters, hand warmers, free beverages for families, and an "Asthma Traval Pack" so families can manage the condition at home. In another issue, “Aiming Higher” demonstrated commitment to changes in clinical thinking, for example doctors who have changed their mental model from “infections are inevitable” to “they’re preventable.”

VSA, the international organization on arts and disability, commissioned us to design a 96-page hardbound book celebrating the international festival of arts and disability. The festival, the largest of its kind in the world, was held in venues throughout Washington DC in June 2010 and featured 620 visual, performing, literary, and media artists from 67 countries. Large performance photographs accompanied by poignant literary excerpts serve as a powerful tribute to these underrepresented artists.

For Dean College, a small private college near Boston, we completed a redesign of admissions publications beginning with the 2011-12 viewbook and travel piece. The theme for Dean’s recruiting campaign, “You First,” signals the college’s mission to customize their students' education based on individual needs and goals.

Baltimore Collegetown Network's shuttle bus fleet now uses the latest in bus tracking technology (Nextbus). To get the word out, BCN asked us to create a new informational brochure and bus stop signage for the program. Look for the bright green signs around town and be sure to pick up the brochure at any local college or university. Collegetown also launched a new mentoring program in which universities and students work together to get students internship experience and give back to the Baltimore community. We designed a brochure profiling ten participants in the inaugural class of "LeaderShape" students.

With our help, Hilbert College now has an updated suite of admissions materials for fall 2011. These pieces have won Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and Admissions Marketing Report awards and will continue to have a positive impact on the school's enrollment marketing efforts.

John Malkovich is the headliner for Fairfield University’s Arts & Minds series for 2011-12. We featured the actor prominently on the cover along with other arts highlights showing the breadth of offerings for the upcoming season: dance, visual arts, opera, and classical music, to name a few.

“Time & Space” is what artists need to take risks, to push themselves, try things, and collaborate with others. MICA asked us to design a brochure to raise awareness and funds for their new Graduate Studio Center, a six-floor industrial space being transformed into studios, galleries, seminar rooms, lounges, auditorium, café, and more.

We developed a new identity and website for Schmitz Press, a premium commercial printer in Baltimore. The website features a dynamic slide show background with sound, and includes the new Schmitz logo, designed in multiple color combinations to reflect their expertise in top quality color printing.

2010 marks 20 years that Skelton Design has worked with Johns Hopkins University's many departments and schools. Beginning in 1990, Skelton redesigned alumni magazines for the School of Public Health, Hopkins Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins University. During the nineties, we worked with the Hopkins Medicine Office of Public Affairs to produce a series of highly regarded annual reports, including one for the Oncology Center. We have continued to produce publications for the Brady Urological Institute since 1997. In 2001, we collaborated with the Hopkins Development Communications Office to design a campaign identity and a series of 15 case statements – one for each of JHU’s major schools – launching the largest capital campaign in the university’s history. We are currently producing quarterly publications for the Center for Innovative Medicine and we recently created a new identity, website and publications for the Brain Science Institute.

College of Notre Dame of Maryland asked us to produce a new series of admissions recruiting materials for the Women’s College. Their mission: to broaden the range of prospective students to include young women from all parts of the U.S. and the world. We chose to feature Notre Dame’s beautiful campus and their energetic student community in photo-heavy publications to be sent out this fall.

McDaniel College’s 2009-10 Report of Gifts introduces their new president, Dr. Roger Casey, who chose to ring Old Main Bell (featured on the cover) nine times to honor the past eight presidents and to signal his first day on the job.
 
Hilbert College’s Viewbook was awarded silver in the Individual Student Recruitment Packages category of the 2010 Circle of Excellence Awards issued by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
 
We designed a pair of compatible books for the Phillips Collection to supplement two summer exhibitions – one showcasing Richard Pousette-Dart’s “Predominantly White Paintings” and one on the paintings of Robert Ryman, “Variations & Improvisations.” And, speaking of the Phillips, the Visitors Guide we designed received an Honorable Mention from the 2009 AAM Museum Publication Design Competition.

If you’ve been to Washington DC lately, you may have seen the street banners and subway dioramas we’ve designed to promote The New York Avenue Sculpture Project for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The large sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle have been installed along New York Avenue, adding color to an otherwise dull median strip. These environmental pieces, along with the print and ad materials we created for the project as been received by the client with rave reviews: "…I appreciate the work you did on the invitations and other projects related to the opening of the New York Avenue Sculpture Project. Your designs were wonderfully different from anything we had sent out before. And everyone was thrilled with the results!" —Susan Fisher Sterling, Director, NMWA

Baltimore Clayworks is celebrating its 30th anniversary! We designed a logo especially for the occasion and a unique microsite that encourages past students, faculty and friends to post images and tell stories of their experiences at Clayworks.

Fairfield University launched its newly redesigned alumni magazine and related website. The new design highlights feature stories photographed by Bob Handelman and Bart Deseyn.

The Foundation for the National Archives requested an “evergreen” development package. We designed an impressive modular portfolio that includes an overview of the extensive holdings and public services of the National Archives as well as a series of specific fundraising inserts.

The Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute launched their newly redesigned website, featuring a series of colorful scientific images taken from research in various fields of neuroscience.

The Hilbert College Travel Piece received a gold award, and the Viewbook received a merit award from the 25th Annual Educational Advertising Awards.

The Augustana College viewbook has won a silver award from the Admissions Marketing Report – the 25th annual awards had over 2,000 entries