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Named after the land in which the vines are grown and the constant breeze that graces the site, Catoctin Breeze Vineyard was established in 2010 by the Fizyta family with the vision to handcraft terroir driven wines that exhibit a sense of place. Great wine starts in the vineyard. Catoctin Breeze Vineyard believes that in order to take an authentic and natural approach towards making great wines, they must start with growing quality fruit in a sustainable way. During the winemaking process, they gently guide the wine from barrel to bottle, allowing the wine to reflect its terroir.

Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) is a multi-disciplinary branding and graphic design studio dedicated to creating distinct and engaging brand experiences. Working in partnership with clients, we develop powerful solutions framed by strategy and creativity to form dynamic brands that people connect with.

Elevate and empower your company or organization by framing your brand for success and longevity. It all begins with thoughtful strategy, purposeful creativity, and exceptional execution.

It’s been another incredible year of creative ingenuity for both the MUSE Creative Awards and the MUSE Design Awards. With more than 3,942 submissions from all over the world, Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) has been awarded eight MUSES across both competitions. The MUSE Creative Awards honored Anxiety & Behavioral Health Center, Clickseed, Frederick Sign & Banner Co., Ol’ Charm, and Queue Aligners, in the category of Corporate Identity–Logo Design; Plantjoy in the category of Branding; and ACNB Corporation in the category of Publication–Annual Report Design. The MUSE Design Awards honored Queue Aligners in the category of Packaging Design.

The MUSE Awards is a series of international competitions hosted by the International Awards Associate (IAA), catering to professionals from various creative industries with the goal of promoting excellence in their respective fields. IAA ensures impartiality and strict assessment criteria by securing a jury of industry professionals who exhibit high standards of excellence and who have set new benchmarks in their fields.

The 2021 Grand Jury Panel
The esteemed panel consisted of 44 multidisciplinary professionals from 23 countries worldwide. These jurors, who represent leading creative companies, include: Director of DNgroup Aps, Frederick Rickmann; Head of User Experience of Huawei, Sebastiano Boni; Owner and Founder of UArchitects, Misak Terzibasiyan; Associate Creative Director of MullenLowe, Renato Barreto; Associate Creative Director/Creative Catalyst of FCB Chicago, Alice Crippa; Marketing Manager of Facebook, Min Lu; Chief Innovation Officer of ONU/UN WOMEN, Alejandro Calero; among many others.

Entries were judged according to industry-best standards and strict requirements set by the IAA. During blind judging, the grand jury panel evaluated submissions based on concept, creativity, quality, and effectiveness, selecting winners who best met all IAA criteria.

International Brands Represented
It’s an honor to be recognized among the known brands and international franchises that were represented in this year’s awards. Entries submitted by agencies for companies and brands, include: Disney+ SG, Subaru USA, Cineplex, BBC Studio Events, KFC, Burberry Beauty, Hyundai, Jo Malone London, Mondelez International, Inc., CVS, Walmart, IFFCO UAE, Yamaha Motor Company, and many more.

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The MUSE Creative Awards and MUSE Design Awards is a series of international competitions for creative and design professionals from all disciplines, who help push the evolution of their industry in a positive direction. The MUSE Awards is administered and judged by the International Awards Associates (IAA), and stellar panels of internationally-recognized professionals. IAA oversees awards and recognition programs, assembles judging panels, and sets rigorous standards for both their MUSE Creative Awards and MUSE Design Awards competitions.

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Jessica Neumann Photography, based in Frederick, MD, specializes in luxury maternity, newborn, baby, professional sessions, and family sessions for DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) is a multi-disciplinary branding and graphic design studio focused on delivering dynamic and engaging brand experiences.

Elevate and empower your company or organization by framing your brand for success and longevity. It all begins with thoughtful strategy, purposeful creativity, and exceptional execution.

This year marks the 31st anniversary of the American Advertising Federation-Greater Frederick (AAF-GF) American Advertising Awards and its first ever virtual gala, held Saturday, February 20, 2021. While we weren’t able to be together, thanks to this year’s Awards Chair, production team, and Zoom, we were still able to come together and celebrate creative excellence in advertising. The AAF-GF put on quite an entertaining 80’s themed show—Let’s Get Digital—filled with lots of laughter and good times. It was such a treat to see so many of our creative peers and honor their achievements.

I’m thrilled to share that Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) was honored with a Silver ADDY Award for Queue™ Aligners in the category of Integrated Brand Identity Campaign, done for Toothman Orthodontics. Thank you to this year’s Awards judging panel for this tremendous recognition, it’s an honor to receive this award on behalf of such a great client. And a special thank you goes to an amazing team of people whose creativity and hard work made every aspect of the Queue™ Aligners branding and packaging work such a success: DB Cooper, brand naming and tagline copywriting; The YGS Group, packaging development, printing, and production; Taylor Box Company, box manufacturing; and Apex Advertising, printing.

Congratulations to the entire Toothman Orthodontics team and to all the 2021 ADDY Award winners.

Queue™ Aligners is a state-of-the-art digitally engineered system designed to bring people’s best smiles forward. The orthodontic specialists behind this game-changing dental alignment program don’t believe in a ‘one size fits all’ approach. With the understanding that successful, lasting results only come from a tailored strategy, they developed a whole new treatment system. One that’s completely customized to each patient’s unique dental situation and needs, and closely monitored over the course of the program. Their mission is to give each person the attention and care they deserve, and a beautiful, healthy smile that will last a lifetime.

The developers of this new aligner system came to Lisa Sirbaugh Creative to create a highly appealing, polished brand, visual identity, and packaging suite that not only aligned with their mission and goals, but also with their exclusive new product. See the full brand identity project.

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The American Advertising Federation’s American Advertising Awards is one of the industry’s largest creative competitions, attracting nearly 35,000 professional and student entries each year through local club competitions. The mission of the American Advertising Awards is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in advertising. The AAF-Greater Frederick’s American Advertising Awards is the first step in the three-tiered competition. Winning entries move on to compete at the Regional level—competing against New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Washington DC agencies, firms, and studios. Winning work from the second tier of the competition then move on to compete at the National level.

Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) is a multi-disciplinary branding and graphic design studio dedicated to creating distinct and engaging brand experiences. Working in partnership with clients, we develop powerful solutions framed by strategy and creativity to form dynamic brands that people connect with.

Elevate and empower your company or organization by framing your brand for success and longevity. It all begins with thoughtful strategy, purposeful creativity, and exceptional execution.

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The World Brand Design Society (WBDS) is an internationally focused community, founded in 2008 with the mission of highlighting exceptional consumer packaging and corporate brand design while bringing knowledge and community closer together. WBDS aims to promote the practices of the industry and actively support design students, professionals and agencies by encouraging further dialogue, celebrating their creativity, bringing people to the forefront and presenting their work on a global stage.

Dieline is a bespoke creative platform that exists to serve the packaging community. Their mission is to build a global community of practitioners and to advocate the packaging industry towards more sustainable solutions through creativity and innovation.

Packaging of the World (POTW) launched in 2008 and has grown to become one of the world’s leading packaging design blogs. POTW aims to inspire designers from all around the world by publishing some of the most interesting and creative projects from large global agencies, creative firms, big and small, and aspiring students.

Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) is a multi-disciplinary branding and graphic design studio dedicated to creating distinct and engaging brand experiences. Working in partnership with clients, we develop powerful solutions framed by strategy and creativity to form dynamic brands that people connect with.

Elevate and empower your company or organization by framing your brand for success and longevity. It all begins with thoughtful strategy, purposeful creativity, and exceptional execution.

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The World Brand Design Society is an internationally focused community, founded in 2008 with the mission of highlighting exceptional consumer packaging and corporate brand design while bringing knowledge and community closer together. WBDS aims to promote the practices of the industry and actively support design students, professionals and agencies by encouraging further dialogue, celebrating their creativity, bringing people to the forefront and presenting their work on a global stage.

Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) is a multi-disciplinary branding and graphic design studio dedicated to creating distinct and engaging brand experiences. Working in partnership with clients, we develop powerful solutions framed by strategy and creativity to form dynamic brands that people connect with.

Elevate and empower your company or organization by framing your brand for success and longevity. It all begins with thoughtful strategy, purposeful creativity, and exceptional execution.

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The World Brand Design Society is an internationally focused community, founded in 2008 with the mission of highlighting exceptional consumer packaging and corporate brand design while bringing knowledge and community closer together. WBDS aims to promote the practices of the industry and actively support design students, professionals and agencies by encouraging further dialogue, celebrating their creativity, bringing people to the forefront and presenting their work on a global stage.

Dieline is a bespoke creative platform that exists to serve the packaging community. Their mission is to build a global community of practitioners and to advocate the packaging industry towards more sustainable solutions through creativity and innovation.

Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) is a multi-disciplinary branding and graphic design studio dedicated to creating distinct and engaging brand experiences. Working in partnership with clients, we develop powerful solutions framed by strategy and creativity to form dynamic brands that people connect with.

Elevate and empower your company or organization by framing your brand for success and longevity. It all begins with thoughtful strategy, purposeful creativity, and exceptional execution.

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The World Brand Design Society is an internationally focused community, founded in 2008 with the mission of highlighting exceptional consumer packaging and corporate brand design while bringing knowledge and community closer together. WBDS aims to promote the practices of the industry and actively support design students, professionals and agencies by encouraging further dialogue, celebrating their creativity, bringing people to the forefront and presenting their work on a global stage.

Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) is a multi-disciplinary branding and graphic design studio dedicated to creating distinct and engaging brand experiences. Working in partnership with clients, we develop powerful solutions framed by strategy and creativity to form dynamic brands that people connect with.

Elevate and empower your company or organization by framing your brand for success and longevity. It all begins with thoughtful strategy, purposeful creativity, and exceptional execution.

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The World Brand Design Society is an internationally focused community, founded in 2008 with the mission of highlighting exceptional consumer packaging and corporate brand design while bringing knowledge and community closer together. WBDS aims to promote the practices of the industry and actively support design students, professionals and agencies by encouraging further dialogue, celebrating their creativity, bringing people to the forefront and presenting their work on a global stage.

Dieline is a bespoke creative platform that exists to serve the packaging community. Their mission is to build a global community of practitioners and to advocate the packaging industry towards more sustainable solutions through creativity and innovation.

Lisa Sirbaugh Creative (formerly Lisa Gorham Creative) is a multi-disciplinary branding and graphic design studio dedicated to creating distinct and engaging brand experiences. Working in partnership with clients, we develop powerful solutions framed by strategy and creativity to form dynamic brands that people connect with.

Elevate and empower your company or organization by framing your brand for success and longevity. It all begins with thoughtful strategy, purposeful creativity, and exceptional execution.