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PHOENIX – Arizona
Highways, a world-renowned magazine that has been sharing stories and
dramatic photography of Arizona for almost as long as the state has had roads,
added to its reputation for excellence with 20 awards at this month’s
International Regional Magazine Association conference.
The
magazine, published by the Arizona Department of Transportation, won five
first-place Gold Awards, including one for the April issue celebrating the 90th
anniversary of Arizona
Highways, which published its first edition on April 15, 1925.
Other Gold Awards presented to Arizona Highways for work in 2015:
- David
Muench, Magazine Photographer of the Year for the December issue;
- Eric
Hanson, for his graphic accompanying a Route 66 feature in the May issue;
- Editor
Robert Stieve, for his monthly editor's letter;
- and
Ben Coan, whose photo of Mooney Falls in the Grand Canyon opened The Journal, the
magazine’s introductory column, in
October.
Arizona
Highways also
earned seven Silver Awards, four Bronze Awards and four honorable mentions. The
magazine won 11 IRMA awards in 2013 and 16 in 2014.
“The
magazine’s strong showing at the IRMA awards this year underscores the nearly
93 years of publishing excellence at Arizona Highways magazine,”
Publisher Win Holden said. “I was pleased that the magazine’s creative team
received recognition in every major category of publishing: writing, design,
photography and illustration.”
Among
the Silver Awards presented to Arizona Highways were Annette McGivney in
the Magazine Writer of the Year category; Scott Baxter for portraits of Clayson
Benally (March); Craig Childs for his essay The Long Deep Trails of Water (June),
and the magazine’s website, arizonahighways.com.
IRMA,
founded in 1960, supports and promotes regional magazines in the United States
and elsewhere. Arizona
Highways has hosted the conference four times, most recently
in 2012.
Gold Awards
- Editor's
Letter: Robert Stieve
- Single
Photo: Ben Coan, Let
There Be Light, October
- Magazine
Photographer of the Year: David Muench, December
- Graphic:
Eric Hanson, On the
Road Again, May
- Special
Focus: 90th Anniversary Issue, April
Silver Awards
- Headline
and Deck: Robert Stieve, She
Knows Dam Well, March 2015
- Essay: Craig
Childs, The Long Deep
Trails of Water, June
- Magazine
Writer of the Year: Annette McGivney
- Portrait
Photo: John Sherman, Table
of Contents, August
- Portrait
Series: Scott Baxter, Their
Souls Blend in a Soft Whisper, March
- Illustration:
Jon Foster, Of
Prehistoric Proportions, May
- Companion
Website: arizonahighways.com
Bronze Awards
- Public
Issues: Annette McGivney, For
Land's Sake, July
- Profile:
Kathy Montgomery, Sir
David, December
- Reader
Service Article: Noah Austin, Robert Stieve and Kelly Vaughn Kramer, Weekend Getaways,
January
- Department: The Journal
Awards of Merit
- Historical
Feature: Kayla Frost, Of
Prehistoric Proportions, May
- Nature
and Environment Feature: Annette McGivney, Ba'cho, August
- Art
Direction of a Single Story: Barbara Glynn Denney, Jeff Kida and Keith
Whitney, The Blue,
July
- Cover:
Barbara Glynn Denney, Salt River Canyon, November
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