Keeping Account 11.22.18
Ad Firm’s Heavy Haul
Blumenfeld + Fleming, a boutique marketing and design firm in Montauk, came up big in the 2018 Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals Marcom Awards, grabbing 17 awards and 6 honorable mentions.
Some of the businesses and organizations that the duo won platinum for are print ads for Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s electrophysiology lab, a radio ad for AEG South Fork Peak Savers, a campaign for the Adam Miller Group, and a website for the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor.
Gold honors came their way for the LaGuardia Design Group, a fall festival ad for the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, and ads for Landscape Details and South Fork Peak Savers, among others.
For a sense of scale, each year more than 6,000 entries are submitted. Blumenfeld + Fleming has won 149 Marcom Awards and over 300 awards for creativity in the past 13 years.
AIA Design Awards
Tickets have gone on sale for an AIA Peconic design awards gathering on Dec. 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Ross School in East Hampton. Ten projects will be recognized in the Daniel J. Rowen Memorial Design Awards, evaluated by a jury of F. Eric Goshow, Chris Cooper, Graham Wyatt, and Patrick Burke. There will also be a People’s Choice Award.
The format allows for discussions around the winning projects, project descriptions, and time for questions. Details and tickets, which are $50, or $30 for AIA Peconic members, can be had at aiapeconic.org. The fare will be hors d’oeuvres, wine, and sparkling water.
Shopping Local on Saturday
While some East Hampton businesses are joining in Small Business Saturday, an initiative started in 2010 by American Express as a way to encourage people to patronize their community’s smaller businesses, others are having their own promotions that day.
Black Sheep Knitworks will offer a 10-percent discount on everything in the store, and early shoppers may be able to snag one of the limited supply of American Express Shop Small totes the shop is giving out.
Gubbins Running Ahead is having a 25-to-50-percent sale on selected merchandise all day on Saturday.
Customers who think ahead can get a 20-percent discount Saturday on items they have preordered at White’s Apothecary. The staff at White’s will put aside items for customers to buy at the higher discount. Those who shop at the store on Saturday without preordering will get 15 percent off their purchases. Prescriptions are not included in the promotion.
Ralph Lauren, not exactly a mom-and-pop, is planning a designer sale of as much as 40 percent off on certain items from tomorrow through Saturday. I.C.