With the Emmys and Golden Globes right behind us and the Academy Awards right around the corner, it is definitely awards season and time to make your nominations for the two most prestigious awards the Dallas Society of Visual Communications can bestow.

The Golden Egg

The Golden Egg award is the highest honor the Dallas Society of Visual Communications can give to an individual – our Hall of Fame. Golden Egg winners and nominees are creatives who have had a positive and lasting impact on our industry by consistently making extraordinary contributions to the creative arts through their work throughout their career, have made an impression on others through formal education or mentoring, and are of high character. Recipients must practice in the Dallas/Fort Worth area (or must have spent a good portion of their career in our market).

There have only been 35 recipients since the award’s inception in 1975. They are: Stan Richards, Bill Hill, Jack Unruh, Bart Forbes, Arlen Bryant, Woody Pirtle, Don Ivan Punchatz, Morris Hite, Sam Bloom, Jack Summerford, Larry Sons, Charles McGough, Jim Jacobs, Bob Dennard, Greg Booth, Ron Sullivan, Arthur Eisenberg, Dick Mitchell, Cap Pannell, George Toomer, Rob Lawton, Don Sibley, David Carter, Rex Peteet, Ed Brock, Chris Rovillo, Mark Perkins, Brian Boyd, Bill Baldwin, Alan Lidji, Tim Hale, Stewart Cohen, MARGIE BOWLES, DICK PATRICK, AND DOUG MAY.

The Golden Orchard

Each year the National Student Show and Conference, put on by the DSVC Foundation, awards the Golden Apple for outstanding college or university educator of the year. But to recognize educators for a lifetime of outstanding cultivation, the Dallas Society of Visual Communications bestows the Golden Orchard award. This award recognizes college and university professors who have strengthened both the Dallas and Fort Worth markets and the visual communications profession as a whole by consistently nurturing young professionals year after year. Their influence in the classroom reverberates through the contributions and creativity of their students, thereby having a significant and enduring impact on the design community.

There have only been EIGHT recipients since the award’s inception in 1997. They are: Rob Lawton, Margie Adkins, Dutch Kepler, Jack Sprague, Chris Hill, Lee Hackett (née Whitmarsh), ERIC LIGON, AND BILL FORD.

Make Your Nominations

Both awards are now open for nominations, for creatives and educators that you believe should be honored for their lifetime achievement as both extraordinary talents and persons.

Although it is not imperative that we have a recipient of the Golden Egg and/or Golden Orchard each year, it is very important that our members respond whether they are nominating someone or not, so that the club can gauge the sentiments of its membership and the community.

Please read the qualifications for nomination below very carefully and make your nominations (you may nominate more than one individual for either award).

Qualifications for Nominees

The following are qualifications for nominees for the Golden Egg and Golden Orchard. They are not listed in order of importance but are qualifications that every recipient must share with previous award recipients.

  • Nominees must practice or teach in the area of visual communications, which includes but is not limited to advertising, animation, graphic design, film, illustration, photography, and typography.
  • Golden Egg nominees must be individuals who are or have been employed as visual communications professionals, whether in an agency, a design firm, as an in-house creative, or self-employed. Golden Orchard nominees must be or have been employed as professors, either adjunct or tenured, by a college-level educational institution(s).
  • Nominees must have spent the career or majority of it in the Dallas/Fort Worth area (or must have spent a good portion of their career in our market (nominees must be making or have made an impact in our community).
  • Since these are lifetime achievement awards, nominees must have shown consistent excellence in their field of creativity (Golden Egg: Producing quality, award-winning work regularly; Golden Orchard: Turning out students who become recognized and impactful creatives consistently) over a period of at least 15 years.
  • Nominees for the Golden Egg must have drawn favorable national attention to the Dallas/Fort Worth area visual communications and design community through the regular acceptance of their work in publications and awards competitions.
  • Nominees for BOTH awards should have made educational contributions at a national and/or regional level by participating at various levels of education (university or high school levels) related to the creative and visual communications fields. For Golden Egg nominees, this can include teaching, giving talks, holding workshops, and participating in seminars at schools or related organizations.
  • Nominees should have made community and professional contributions by being involved in award show judging, seminars, speaking, etc., locally and in other cities and states (to professional organizations, educational institutions, and the like).
  • In the case of a Golden Egg nominee being a business owner, the nominee must be one who has upgraded and enhanced Dallas’ professional image by hiring and guiding employees who have the same values and capabilities of producing a consistency of excellence in their work (i.e., the nominee themselves need not be the actual creator of the work).
  • Nominees must be of high character and reputation.
  • The nominee need not be a member of DSVC, but of course, may be a member.
  • As this is a lifetime achievement award, previous winners are not eligible.

SELECTION OF RECIPIENTS

  • Both members of the DSVC and non-members residing in the Dallas and Fort Worth area may nominate individuals to be a recipient of the Golden Egg or Golden Orchard.
  • The deadline for nominations is MIDNIGHT CST, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2024.
  • All nominations will be kept confidential by the Golden Egg and Golden Orchard Selection Committee. The Selection Committee will be composed of five past Golden Egg winners and/or past DSVC presidents, one of whom must be a current or former college or university professor. A moderator will be present to ensure the selection process goes smoothly but will have no say or bearing on the outcome.

Make your Golden Egg and/or Golden Orchard recipient nomination here

The deadline for response is MIDNIGHT, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2024

If you have any questions regarding either award, please email DSVC’s Operations Manager, Paula Dohanian, at paula@dsvc.org.

Thank you for your time and careful consideration,

Kevin and Beverly Marple
54th Annual Dallas Show ChairS