Recent Awards
It’s No Fish Story, Mary Fisher is awarded Entrepreneur of the Year
April 25, 2007
Jan Sherman of Sally Corporation, awards Mary Fisher, Women in Business Entrepreneur of the Year
Women in Business awards laud business savvy, involvement
Four business women—all pioneers, leaders and trailblazers in their fields—were honored at the 21st annual Women in Business Awards luncheon on Wednesday, April 25, 2007.
A top health care administrator, a railroad company executive, an insurance agency franchisee and an owner of an advertising agency received kudos for their achievements in business as well as their contributions to the community.
“I’m honored, I’m humbled, I’m surprised and I’m in tears,” said Mary Fisher, who was dubbed 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year. Fisher, president of Mary Fisher Design, beat out finalists K. Dawn Blackledge (Aerostar Environmental Services Inc.) and Melissa Hong (Visual Solutions).
Franchisee of the Year went to Maggie Deese of Allstate Insurance. Susan Hamilton, who has worked at CSX Corp. for 27 years and now serves as the company’s diversity and equal employment officer, accepted the Corporate Leader Award.
The women were nominated by the community and selected by a team of judges that consisted of past award winners, business leaders and corporate sponsors.
Women Business Owners of North Florida and the Professional Women’s Council, both Jacksonville-based organizations, presented the awards.
Excerpt from the April 26, 2007 Florida Times Union, By Alison Trinidad
AIGA Announces Fellow Award
April 2007
AIGA Fellow Award, New York, NY. This national award given by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) was awarded to an elite 13 people in the United States this year. The award recognizes mature designers who have made a significant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community as well as in their local AIGA chapter. The areas of education, writing, leadership and reputation, as well as the practice of design are given equal consideration in measuring significant contribution.
Mary is the past president of the Jacksonville Chapter of AIGA in 2003/2004 and continues to be very active with the organization.
International Design awards 2006
Mary Fisher Design has been honored by the receipt of several awards from the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, The American Advertising Federation, The International ARC Awards and was named a finalist for Woman Business Owner of the Year.
At the Gallery of Superb Printing Banquet held January 29, 2005 Mary Fisher Design was presented with four best of category awards from the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen: for the Landstar Annual Report, Parkway Plastic Surgery Brochure, Eclectic Galleries Brochure, and the very unique Jacksonville Skyline printed on fabric as a window treatment
In addition, Mary Fisher Design was presented one silver award for the Armor Holdings American Body Armor brochure and seven judges awards for UNF Family Forum brochure, North Florida Homebuilders HomeStyle Newsletter, Griggs Law Firm stationery package, Dental Temps brochure, Express Tax Franchise kit, Pellum and Asociates stationery package and Howard and Company brochure. Fisher was also presented with a second runner up to best of show for its Eclectic Galleries brochure.
The 2002 International Arc Awards were presented July 25 in New York City. Known as the “Academy Awards” of annual reports, the ARC Awards honor excellence in annual reports throughout the world. Competing against 40 countries, Mary Fisher Design took a silver award for the 2001 Landstar Annual report.
And most recently, Mary was honored by The Women Business Owners of North Florida as finalist for this year’s Women Business Owner of the Year Awards in the Established category.
Agency head Mary Fisher maintains a humble outlook toward the numerous kudos her firm has garnered in recent years. “I don’t measure my success in the number of awards I receive”, says Fisher. “Being able to do what you love is it’s own reward. I am quite honored to earn respect from my peers, and I consider it a privilege to contribute to the success of my clients.”
Gallery of Superb Printing awards 2005
Jacksonville, Florida. Mary Fisher Design, a 17-year-old graphic design and advertising agency, was recently honored by the receipt of five international awards from the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen.
At the Gallery of Superb Printing Banquet held June 10, 2006, Mary Fisher Design was presented with three Gold awards and two Bronze awards from the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen for Superb Craftsmanship. The entries pass three grueling rounds of intense scrutiny during which they are judged by a panel of 48 international industry experts. This year’s winners were singled out from 2700 entries, submitted by 864 firms from 13 countries.
Agency head Mary Fisher maintains a humble outlook toward the numerous kudos her firm has garnered in recent years. “I don’t measure my success in the number of awards I receive”, says Fisher. “Being able to do what you love is it’s own reward. I am quite honored to earn respect from my peers, and I consider it a privilege to contribute to the success of my clients.”
The agency was awarded Gold awards for work created for Armor Holdings and Eclectic Galleries. They also accepted a Gold award for Fisher Design’s own “Riverfront Window Treatment” which creates the
realistic illusion of having offices on the St. Johns River. The firm also accepted two Bronze awards for work for Landstar System and Parkway Plastic Surgery.
From their new “riverfront” offices on Emerson Street, Mary Fisher Design is a Jacksonville-based full
service graphic design studio providing graphic design, advertising and marketing to small businesses and large corporations throughout the United States.