Breakaway Graphics, LLC Earns Silver in Top International Award – 2012 Summit Creative Award

Breakaway Graphics, LLC is a Silver winner in the 2012 Summit Creative Award® competition for its creative work for Goat Hill Farm. The Summit Creative Award recognizes and celebrates the creative accomplishments of small and medium sized advertising agencies and other creative groups with annual billings under $30 million. Over the seventeen years, the competition has established itself as the premier arbiter of creative excellence for firms of this size and has become a coveted honor worth touting.

Entries in 23 major categories are judged against a stringent set of standards. During the blind judging events (entering company names withheld.) Judges search for innovative and creative concepts, strong executions and the ability to communicate and persuade.

“Winning a Summit Creative Award is a significant accomplishment in ones career. The combination of scrutinizing judges and tough judging criteria ensures that only deserving entries receive Summit recognition.” Said Jocelyn Luciano, Executive Director for the Summit International Awards. “What a year to see creativity bounce back from the doldrums, and with such strength. Watching the judges’ debate the details of individual entries in the run-off for the tops spots was inspiring.”

Breakaway Graphics, LLC Takes Gold in 2012 International Hermes Creative Awards

Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs, and emerging technologies and is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The international organization consists of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, media production, web and free-lance professionals. The Association oversees awards and recognition programs, provides judges and sets standards for excellence.

The competition has grown to one of the largest of its kind in the world. A look at the winners shows a range in size from individual communicators to media conglomerates and Fortune 500 companies.The competition is so well thought of in the industry that national public relations organizations, local ad clubs, and local business communicator chapters are entrants.


A tremendous professional achievement, winning Gold in this prestigious competition means the judges felt that Breakaway Graphics, LLC’s work exceeded their high standard of excellence and serves as a benchmark for the Industry.

Breakaway Graphics, LLC also received an Honorable Mention for their work with the InsideTrack Almanac.

Sheana & Kerry Firth Receive Award of Excellence in the 2012 APEX Awards

Kerry Firth, Owner & Publisher, and Sheana Firth, Art Director, have been awarded a 2012 APEX Award of Excellence for the InsideTrack Almanac. APEX Awards for Publication Excellence is an annual competition for publishers, editors, writers and designers who create print, Web, electronic and social media. Business, nonprofit, agency and freelance communicators can enter APEX to win awards for their best writing, publications, campaigns, programs, design and media. Communications Concepts, Inc. sponsors the APEX Awards, and advises professionals, who write, edit and manage business communications, on best strategies and practices.

APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional entries, one of which was the Volume 17, Issue 1 of the Treasure Coast InsideTrack Almanac.