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Graphic D-Signs & LandscaperMarketing.com and Graphic D-Sigs in the News   Award and Honors We've Received:
December 2007 Dan Antonelli gives two workshops at the USSC Convention in Atlantic City. His workshops drew over 175 attendees. One workshop focused on web design and marketing for small businesses, and the other workshop discussed logo design and branding strategies for other designers.
Fall 2007 GDS Revamps The Luca John Foundation. We embarked on first creating a brand identity for the foundation, then integrated it on their stationery and business cards. And finally, we designed and built them a professional web site, which serves to educate people on this devastating disease, and also as a means to solicit donations. It's also a way for others to connect who have experienced this.
December 2006 Dan Antonelli gives two workshops at the USSC Convention in Atlantic City. His workshops draw over 175 attendees. The workshops focused on web design and marketing for small businesses, and a second seminar discussed logo design and branding strategies for other designers.
July 2006

Dan Antonelli's book, Logo Design for Small Business 2 Featured in Entrepreneur's StartUps Magazine article "Top Tools for Building Brilliant Logos". The article was also picked up by MSNBC. Click here for the article.

August 2006 Our client, BrooklynPorkStore.com is chosen to appear on FoodNetworks' Road Tasted show. Part of the reason they are chosen is because of their successful web presence and online brand identity.
December 2005 Dan Antonelli's Photoshop class was huge success, with the most attendance ever for a single workshop in the show's history. Over 150 people packed the auditorium to see some of Dan's Photoshop techniques.
September 2005 Graphic D-Signs logo created for BrooklynPorkStore.com featured on letterheadfonts.com for exemplary use of the font "Ballpark." Click here to visit letterheadfonts.com
June 2005:

Logo Design for Small Business chosen as "Editors Choice." Both of Dan Antonelli's books on logo design was reviewed by the graphic design web site "The Designer's Bookshelf." and chosen to be their Editor's Choice for the month of June. Click here to view the review.

June 2005 Logo Design for Small Business 2 Reviewed. Dan Antonelli's second book on logo design was reviewed by design guru and expert Jeff Fisher, on the Creative Latitudes web site. Creative Latitude is a worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practice. Click here to view the review.
January 2005 Dan Antonelli and Graphic D-Signs featured in new book, Taking the Mystery out of Digital Printing, published by RolandDG USA. The book showcases some of Graphic D-Signs cutting edge techniques in producing outstanding digital printing and graphics.
January 2005: Graphic D-Signs work featured on the cover on SignCraft Magazine. This marks our fourth cover feature to date, showcasing a logo design we did for JMV Landscaping, in Warren, NJ.
July, 2003 Feature article about Graphic D-Signs and Dan Antonelli appear in the Sunday New Jersey Star Ledger.
November/
December 2004
Graphic D-Signs featured in STEP Inside Design Magazine for marketing collateral design and integration of stock photography for Bristol Consulting.
May 2002 Graphic D-Signs, Inc. work appears on SignCraft cover again. This marks our third cover to date!
 
September
2007
Graphic D-Signs receive nine honors for several designs in Graphic Design USA Magazine's annual contest, sponsored by Adobe Systems.
• Annie's Gourmet Kitchen : site
• Bridal Couture :logo
• Trans County : logo
• Lisk Landscape : logo
• Royal Crown Delivery Service : logo
• Chocolate Marketplace : logo
• Brooklyn Pork Store : logo
• Vacation Retreat : site
• RH Foto : site
January 2007 Graphic D-Signs receive nine honors for several designs in Graphic Design USA Magazine's annual contest, sponsored by Adobe Systems. Categories we won are as follows: 3 awards for Logo Design and 6 awards for Web Design.
June 2006 Graphic D-Signs wins 1st Place in Sign Business Magazine's Auto Art Contest! This marks our second year in row winning first place for the Commercial Vehicles category. The vehicle that won was for Natural Turf. We created their logo and identity, and then designed their vehicle advertising.
December 2005

Our client, CDM Electronics received the Gold Achievement Award for the new sales & marketing materials that we designed for them, from the National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA).

October 2005 Graphic D-Signs awarded 2005 Awards of Excellence, Best Internet Site by a Remodeler Community Builders Association and Builders and Remodelers of Northern NJ for Torbilt Construction
June 2005 Graphic D-Signs wins 1st Place in Sign Business Magazine's Auto Art Contest! for the Commercial Vehicles category. The vehicle that won was for Haig Security. We created their logo and identity, and then designed their vehicle advertising.
February 2004 Graphic D-Signs wins design award for newsletter. APEX, the annual Awards for Publishing Excellence, recently recognized HIP's member newsletter, HIP Today, with an Award of Excellence. The newsletter is designed at Graphic D-Signs.
January, 2004 Graphic D-Signs wins DesignFirms.org's Web Design Award. Our site for NJ Landscaper Green Meadows Landscape Contractors was among the best on the Internet!
June 2002: Work Featured in Sign Business Auto Art Contest. Graphic D-Signs awarded honorable mention for three vehicle advertising jobs in the magazine's annual nationwide contest.

Articles Published by
Dan Antonelli:

Since 1998, Dan Antonelli has been a feature writer and columnist for SignCraft magazine. Over the last 9 years, he's written over 25 articles on various issues related to the growth and development of design professionals. For a listing of most of these articles, please visit our Published Articles page.

If you're interested in Dan Antonelli writing an article for your publication, or for any speaking engagements on small business branding and related graphic design topics, you may email him to request more information.