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BY ERIKA ENGLE

Sunday, November 11, 2001



Awards for buying
Hawaii first

Hawaii's great graphic artists and prodigious printers gathered last night to honor 50 of their own for keeping graphic design and printing work and revenue at home.

The first "Hawaii's 5-0" awards were presented at the Hawaii Convention Center following a competition designed to honor "the creativity and talent of our local graphic design and print professionals," according to American Institute of Graphic Arts-Honolulu Chapter President Stacey Leong Mills. AIGA-Honolulu and The Printed In Hawaii Association joined forces to stage the competition.

The top five winners were awarded trophies; two of which were presented for work by University of Hawaii associate professor Stuart Henley.

Henley's winning works were posters for UH's "Intersections" visiting lecturer series and for the UH School of Architecture's "Force International Symposium on Asia-Pacific Architecture."

The other three trophies were presented for "Fall '00 - Deep 266," an issue of Hawaii Skin Diver Magazine designed by VOICE, a Honolulu graphic design company; "Physics" described as an artful, accordion-folded piece prepared for a publication called Tin Fish Press and designed by UH Photography professor Gaye Chan. The lone neighbor island winner was a self-promotion booklet called "Truth Hurts," by Tsunami Marketing on Kauai.

Creators of 45 other works were presented with certificates, and all the work will be presented in an exhibition that is to travel statewide.

The program shows "great promise and innovation and that even though we're in Hawaii, away from the mainstream or what is considered the mainstream, we hold our own," Mills said.

"The judges acknowledged that we have a special kind of design here," she said. "We approach things in a very cultural way and that's unique." It was a validation of the sense that local companies know how to design for local clients, she said.

A study in the mid-1990s found that an estimated $200 million in potential print job revenue is sent out of the islands every year.

The "entire mission of PIHA since 1996 has been to encourage private and public sectors to keep printing in Hawaii," said Matt Heim, a board member of both PIHA and the AIGA-Honolulu Chapter. Heim is a director of family-run HonBlue Inc.

Station price revealed

Radio industry Web site Radio & Records Online reports that California-based Trade Center Management Inc. is paying $575,000 for KRTR AM (1460).

The transaction is awaiting Federal Communications Commission approval.

While Trade Center Management is to be the licensee, the station broadcasts Korean language programming to its target audience.





Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
Call 529-4302, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., No. 7-210,
Honolulu, HI 96813. She can also be reached
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