The highly drinkable, palate-pleasing new website for venerable high-end wine brand Silver Oak Cellars is now available for tasting at silveroak.com

The oft-recognized Joie de Vivre website received more props today, winning two Adrian Awards from the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (in both the Overall Website and Social Marketing categories). More joy!

Congratulations to today’s recipients of the 2007 Creativity Awards: Hitachi’s SellYourCTO.com (that’s 3 for that site already), Joie de Vivre Hospitality (their first for that site, and counting), nto to mention a self-promotional nod to our own finedesigngroup.com.

a really great Flickr set of hand lettering exercises based on spam one-liners. brilliant!!

The Interactive Marketing Association’s 2007 Awards include a Best In Class to Joie de Vivre Hotel’s new website in the Hospitality category and to Hitachi’s Sell Your CTO in the Technology sector.

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FINE’s SF neighbor, the new Fed Building, continues to rake in the accolades for its design and eco-friendly features. We’re just glad it means more sandwiches within walking distance.

The Hitachi “Sell Your CTO” site has again been honored with a web design award, this time from the International Academy of Visual Designers, AKA the “W3 Awards.” Hats off to the Hitachi team!

Jen Stark

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