Cottage Life and British Columbia clean up at IRMA Awards

Canadian titles did very well at this month's 46th annual International Regional Magazine Association (IRMA) conference on Sept.12, 2006 in Duluth, Minnesota. Cottage Life won 10 awards, including three golds. British Columbia Magazine won six awards, including two golds. The IRMA awards recognize international standards of editorial excellence among more than 40 regional -- largely tourism and outdoor-related -- magazines.

Cottage Life:

Historical Feature, Gold “The Tree that Built Cottage Country” (July/August) Charles Wilkins
Department, Gold “Puttering” (March, September/October, June) Team: Martin Zibauer, Editor; Vicki Hornsby, Art Director
Art Direction of a Single Story, Gold “25 Ultimate Upgrades” (April/May) Kim Zagar, Acting Art Director
Overall Art Direction, Over 40,000 Circulation, Silver July/August, September/October, November/December Faith Cochran, Art Director, & Kim Zagar, Acting Art Director
Profiles, Silver “Just a Little Batty” (September/October) Tom Carpenter
Reader Service, Silver “Different Strokes” (September/October) Ray Ford
Illustration, Silver “Oil Changes” (April/May) Matthew Daley
Essay Award of Merit “Musings of a Leg Man” (September/October) Charles Wilkins
Public Issues, Award of Merit “Are We Having Fun Yet?” (April/May) John Lorinc
Column Award of Merit “Editor's Note” (June, July/August, September/October) Penny Caldwell

British Columbia:

Gold, Reader Service, “10 great paddles,” Winter 2005; Kevin Arnold
Gold, Travel, “Lost and found in Height of the Rockies,” Winter 2005; Lynn Tanod
Silver, Art Direction of a Single Story, “10 great paddles,” Spring 2005; British Columbia Magazine Art Director Ken Seabrook
Award of Merit, Environmental Feature, “Clayoquot revisited,” Summer 2005; British Columbia Magazine Bruce Obee
Award of Merit, Historical Feature, “The war that nobody won,” Winter 2005; John Lutz.
Award of Merit, Department, "Destination, 2005" J.B. MacKinnon, Lynn Tanod and British Editor Anita Willis

(Kim Pittaway, the former editor of Chatelaine was on the writing panel, and Donna Braggins, the past art director of Maclean’s on the design panel.)