Connecticut’s Creatives Celebrate at the 47th Annual CADC Awards Show Night Spent Recognizing Design Legends, Exceptional Professional and Rising Talent.

Last Year’s Best in Show Winners, Box 8 Creative, Answered Questions About Their Involvement With Cadc, Their Inspiration for Their Winning Project for the Blue Duck, and the Graphics for This Year’s Awards Show.

The year 2022 made us feel whole again—though we can do more to achieve even greater impact. We’re looking to fill a few existing board roles as well as some new positions we developed.

The CADC has been doing a lot of work around the topic of membership and the value it brings to our community. We are still a grassroots organization, with room to grow and increase our overall impact.

The 2022 CADC Service Award honors the legacy of Edvin Yegir. As a design professor, Edvin’s longstanding commitment to design excellence and dedication to bridging the gap between Connecticut’s professional and academic worlds – made him one of CADC’s most prominent advocates.

In the inaugural version of our Club Notes newsletter, we asked Steve Habersang, Senior Art Director at Taylor Design, a few questions about his life and his career. You can check out Steve’s design work on his personal website, and his illustration on Instagram @habby_art.

Next year’s show is going to be huge! We don’t want all of your hard work from the past year to go unrecognized, so to make up for this mess, we’ll accept submissions from this year and next year. So, put those submission planning spreadsheets in a safe place because you’re gonna need them next Spring.

Our board has been working quietly for the last few years to try and figure out what the CADC means to our community. I’m excited to be writing this because it means we can finally share what we’ve been up to.

Karl is the Founder and Solutionist at creativeplacement® — a cultivated, curated, hard-to-find talent consultancy for the entire design industry with a focus on packaging, print, interactive, experiential and multimedia professionals. His firm […]

Jonathan is an Eagle Scout and graduated from UConn in 2002 with a bachelors degree in fine arts and a minor in art history. From there he spent a few […]

The driving principle behind Jim’s life has always been the appreciation and creation of beauty. As a child he was transfixed by the colorful patterns in nature and by the […]

Don Carter is a creative director, designer and illustrator. A graduate of Paier College of Art in Hamden, Don has over thirty years of experience designing and art directing for Connecticut ad agencies. For the past sixteen years, he has been a creative director with Adams & Knight in Avon. […]

This long overdue honor is presented to Mark for his long standing commitment and dedication to CADC and the entire creative community. […]

Deb is a strategic brand builder, designer, and educator. Known for connecting design with purpose and intent, Deb’s work consistently provides a distinctive competitive advantage for her clients. […]

Alexander Isley is a graphic designer and educator. He holds a degree in Environmental Design from the NC State University College of Design and a BFA from The Cooper Union. […]

We are delighted to honor Roxanne Bailey with our first ever Service Award. Roxanne served as President from 1983 – 1984 and has since graced our board with invaluable knowledge, great ideas, and a great sense of humor. […]

Nathan Garland is an artist, a filmmaker and a graphic designer who was born and raised in Chicago. He earned a BFA at Washington University in St. Louis, studied in Amsterdam on a Fulbright Scholarship and attended Yale for an MFA. […]

Later, Joe co-founded Mintz & Hoke Advertising along with Alan Mintz. They had one goal: combine smart strategy with wild and crazy creative. Growing and making money didn’t occur to them until much later.