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Steve and Leigh Webster with Steve's
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January 31 , 2006
The Marblehead Festival of Arts announced Steve Webster as the winner of its 2006 Logo Contest at the Logo Premiere Party, held January 31, 2006, at The Landing Restaurant in Marblehead. In a celebratory atmosphere with live music by the Kip Sandfield Band and delicious hors d’oeuvres provided by The Landing (www.thelandingrestaurant.com), the Steve Webster award-winning logo was debuted to an excited crowd of Festival board members, volunteers, and enthusiasts.
The logo contest winning design features the outline of a boat sailing past Marblehead Light in Chandler Hovey Park, and was conceived during a Wednesday night sailing race. Returning after the race and enchanted by the warm summer evening, Steve was struck by "a strong sense of coming home" as they entered the harbor. A resident of Marblehead for over 20 years, Webster has been greatly inspired by the tradition of top-notch logo designs that have emanated from this competition. He entered the contest only once before, in the mid-1980s.
With a BFA in Graphic Design from Boston University, Steve Webster is a graphics professional, art director, and design manager. He currently serves as the creative director at Impact Design (www.impact4design.com), an independent firm located in Marblehead. In addition to the Marblehead Festival of Arts logo, recent projects include promotional videos for Hasbro Games, Web site design for 360 Public Relations, flash animation for Photocourse.com, and package design for Dungeons & Dragons Online video games.
This year’s logo competition drew over 100 entries from professional graphic artists, art hobbyists, and art students who either reside, work or participate as a member of an arts association in Essex County. A panel of three judges, which included last year’s winner, Andrea Noble, selected nine semi-finalists and then three finalists in the competition. Then, through a special People’s Choice, the public voted to select the award-winning entry.
The 2006 Logo Contest semi-finalist artists were: John Bonner, Matt Byers, Chad Macomber, Lisa Mannix, George Price (2 entries), Jennifer Tips, and Steve Webster (2 entries). All are from Marblehead with the exception of George Price, who is from Wellesley and is a member of the Marblehead Arts Association. |
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