nonfiction is very proud to take this opportunity to say congratulations to the following companies who have won international recognition for their fiscal 2007 annual reports. This year's competition with the League of American Communications Professionals LLS (LACP) 2007 Annual Report Competition drew an unprecedented number of submissions representing a broad range of industries and organizational sizes.

More than 3,000 entries representing upwards of 20 countries were received, so competition was exceptionally tough.

Annual Reports were judged in peer-level competitions as follows:

Pengrowth - Energy GOLD -- Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - Annual Revenue: $1+ billion (Up to 1,000 Employees)

ARC - Energy BRONZE -- Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - Annual Revenue: $1+ billion (Up to 1,000 Employees)

Canadian Natural - GOLD /Top 100 - Energy -- Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - Annual Revenue: Up to $100 million

Verenex - SILVER - Energy -- Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - Annual Revenue: Up to $100 million

Pason Energy - BRONZE -- Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - Annual Revenue: $100 million - $1 billion

UFA - SILVER - Agribusiness - Annual Revenue: All

Here is the link to view the results in detail:
http://www.lacp.com/2007vision/competition.htm

Again, to all winners a most sincere congratulations from team nonfiction studios.

IR Web Report came up with a list of great online annual report designers - nonfiction made the list! There were a fair amount of submissions:

In all, we received 23 submissions from firms in places as diverse as Japan, Sweden and Brazil. Only the small group of firms you see below made the cut.

Take a look!

Check out all the winning entries at: Summit awards

Veer celebrates this emerging redefinition of what it means to be an adult with their new Solus photography collection called "all grown up". Naturally, Veer came to nonfiction to create a flash site for this collection because of our unique understanding of the Grups demographic.

Visit Veer's website and click on "see the galleries" to view nonfiction's beautiful design.

ARF's mission is to rescue stray and abandoned dogs and cats from First Nations and rural areas and place them in loving, permanent homes while providing programs to reduce pet over-population.

The Animal Rescue Foundation is a registered, non-profit charity run by volunteers. If you'd like to know more about ARF, and/or adopt a four legged friend that will love you unconditionally, please visit ARF's website.

Check out the Newbury Spa website that nonfiction designed for a taste of the pampering you'll receive at the expert hands of the Newbury Spa staff!

nonfiction is proud to be the Calgary Stampede's partner in their first ever Rodeo Fantasy Pool. You can enter for a chance to win $100,000 just like the real cowboys. Go sign up and try to win some of the prizes!

PS - we also just launched the Calgary Stampede's new website - take a look!

Here's the list:

Agrium, Arc Energy Trust, Bonavista Energy Trust, Calgary Airport Authority, Canadian Natural Resources, Canexus, Clear Energy, Delphi Energy Corp., Freehold Royalty Trust, Gentry Resources, GeoCan Energy, Nexen, NuVista Energy, Paramount Resources, Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities, The Calgary Stampede, Stoneham Drilling Trust, Stratic Energy, Trilogy Energy Trust, Verenex Energy, Winslow Resources

We've won an Award of Merit at the Graphex 06 Awards - a biennial competition celebrating excellence in communication design. This year, in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, the judges were specifically seeking stellar design that included a certain "Canadianness." Happily, they thought our Kindersley book fit the bill!

Kindersley came about through a collaboration with Gary Campbell Photography.

Our good friend Jeff Spokes has just launched a new website that shows off his incredible illustrations and artwork. We'd like to recommend that everyone take a look.

nonfiction has been working with Canada Post to design a new postage stamp to celebrate the history of mountaineering in Canada. The Alpine Club of Canada's first meeting was in March 1906, in Winnipeg. Today, the group is headquartered at the Canmore Summer Mountaineering Camps. A single domestic-rate commemorative stamp will be released in July 2006, and will pay homage to this group and their contributions to the sport of mountain climbing.

nonfiction is proud to add Canexus Income Fund to our portfolio of clients. They have selected us to design their 2005 Annual Report.

We are delighted to have been asked to design the 2005 Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Report to the Community. The Stampede has a lot of exciting plans for 2006 and beyond, and nonfiction is proud to be a partner in getting the message out!

We have commissioned Santa's elves to bring you the nonfiction Elfsonic 3000!

we are pleased to be working with Gentry Resources, Stratic Energy Corporation and Winslow Resources to design their fiscal 2005 annual reports.

nonfiction is pleased to announce the unveiling of our white-tailed deer & fawn commemorative coin. It's a collectable, non-circulating coin with a face value of $5.

check it out here:
http://www.mint.ca/RoyalCanadianMintPublic/en-CA/thestore/shopping/coinsets/other/623095.htm

The talented Jeff Spokes is responsible for the illustration used on the coin.

dave casey, one of our in-house illustrator/designers did a freelance illustration for the new york times. check out the pdf here.

congrats dave!

nonfiction is proud to announce the revealing of the Biosphere Reserves Stamp Collection, a joint release thru Canada & Irish Post. The stamps feature Waterton Lakes National Park & Killarney National Park in Ireland. Click here for a closer look!

Canada Post has selected nonfiction to design and produce a set of joint issue stamps with Irish Post. nonfiction was responsible for producing stamps to be issued in Canada as well as by An Post in Ireland. The stamps are to commemorate Waterton Lakes National Park and the Killarney National Park (in Ireland) which are both World Biosphere Reserves.

The stamp was illustrated by the amazing Jeff Spokes.

Check back on April 22 (Earth day) the day of issue for links and more news.

Our new address is 450, 318 11th ave se., calgary, ab, t2g 0y2. click below to see our moving card.

We launched the updated Canadian Natural Website today! Take a look!

nonfiction received the 'Friend of IR' award at the first annual CIRIAL (Canadian Investor Relations Institute - Alberta) Awards Evening on September 22, 2004. The award, voted by members of the Alberta investor relations community, recognizes non-IR professionals who go out of their way to promote the importance of the IR profession.

The Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) is the "Voice of Airports" representing local, regional and state governing bodies that own and operate commercial airports throughout the United States and Canada.

They chose the Calgary Airport Authority's 2003 annual report as the best airport annual in North America for this year. Take a look at the press release!

The League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) encourages excellence in the practice of communication for all organizations through out North America and 12 other countries. LACP's goal is to help facilitate discussion of 'best in class' practices in communications and recognize those who demonstrate exemplary communication behaviors.

Following consecutive gold awards for the last two years, Agrium's annual report received a platinum award from LACP this year, and achieved seventh place on their list of the top 100 annual reports of 2003.

Paramount Resources, Cavell Energy and Canadian Natural's annual reports each received gold awards in their respective categories.

Over the last few months we've finished a number of projects:

Agrium's Annual Report

Agrium's Online Annual Report

Calgary Airport Authority's Annual Report

Canadian Natural's Annual Report

Freehold Royalty Trust's Annual Report

Paramount Resources' Annual Report

Real Resources' Annual Report

There's more to come - take a look and tell us what you think.

The 2003 Design inspiration Awards invitation was also awarded gold in the invitation category at the Summit Creative Awards.

The Summit Creative Awards were created over 10 years ago to celebrate the creative accomplishments of smaller creative companies throughout the world. The awards are open to advertising, public relations, video production, multimedia agencies and other allied firms with annual billings of less than $15 million.

After winning a 2002 Design Inspiration Award for our corporate identity, nonfiction was asked by Unisource Canada to create the invitation for the Design Inspiration awards show. The resulting piece received a merit in the specialty advertising category at AdRodeo 2003, Calgary's celebration of creative excellence.

The Wombats and Wallabies will miss her but we are glad to have her on the team!

Visit the animal rescue foundation's website to find out how to get your copy.

nonfiction donated our time to create this cute and cuddly fundraiser...check out our work here.

With nearly 600 entries to the American Society of Professional Communicators Annual Report Awards, Agrium Inc. has been named the best-of-category for Narrative among companies with gross revenues between $250 million and $2.5 billion. To view the complete list of winners, visit the American Society of Professional Communicators' website.

Congratulations Agrium!

Only 19 finalists were selected out of thousands of entrees from across North America and Australia, and nonfiction studios won for its identity package. Look for the promotional book in November which will display all the award winners.

We launched our website. (You know that because you're here.) Happy Canada Day!

Agrium's 2002 Annual Report won gold in the League of American Communications Professional Vision Awards. View the award here.

We launched myday at the Stampede. Go plan, save and print your day at the Stampede here!