Adams & Adams is proud to be involved with the PICA Awards
18/11/2011

The night of the 17th of November 2011 recognised South Africa’s Magazine publishing professionals and as the partner of the 42nd annual PICA awards, the Adams & Adams team was present to award 12 individuals with their prestigious awards. The Magazine Publishing Association of South Africa had once again done an outstanding job of producing an amazing gala event that featured entertainment from Die Heuwels Fantasties and Willem Breytenbach.

"The standard of the entries was clearly incredibly high, but it is interesting that some publications receive many awards. TASTE magazine of Woolworths received 5 awards! Congratulations also to VISI and ELLE magazines which foster the creative design talents in South Africa. The individual winners are the crème de la crème of the South African magazine journalists and are most deserving of the recognition. Creativity is alive and well and blossoming in South Africa!" stated Mariette du Plessis, Trade Mark Attorney and Partner.

We would like to congratulate all the individual winners listed below as they deserve to be honoured for the outstanding work they have put out throughout the year.

• Columnist of the Year - Sipho Hlongwane from the Big Issue! for "Dogs of War"  
• Feature Writer of the Year - Angus Powers from Sports Illustrated   
• Profile Writer of the Year - Erns Grundling from Weg/Go magazine  
• Public Interest Writer of the Year- Salome Delport from Rooi Rose magazine 
• Travel Writer of the Year- Toast Coetzer from Weg/Go magazine  
• Health & Wellness Writer of the Year - Mark van Dijk from Men's Health magazine for his article called "Inconceivable”
• Trade & Technical Writer of the Year - Irma Venter from Engineering News
• Non-Professional Writer of Year - Mike Marsden from Imesa magazine for his article "Resolving Cape Town's Public Transport Crisis
• Visual Production of the Year - Vickie de Beer from Rooi Rose magazine for her article "Die Kersfees"  
• Photography/Photojournalism of the Year - Ruvan Boshoff & Le Roux Schoeman from Weg/Go magazine  
• Layout of the Year- Anton Sassenberg from Elle magazine South Africa  
• Editor of the Year (consumer magazines) - Jackie Burger from Elle magazine

The main prize winners of the nights were:

• Overall Magazine Design of the Year - Leadership Magazine  by Cape Media Corporation 
• Custom publishing design winner - Woolworths Taste  
• Consumer Publishing design winner - Fair Lady
• Cover of the year - Custom publishing sector - Woolworths Taste by New Media publishing 
• Cover of the Year- Business to Business sector - The Dairymail  
• Cover of the Year - Consumer Sector -  Visi Kiss & Tell  
• Annual Supplement or Special Issue of the Year -  Sarie, kos, Woon, Gesond & Krieatief
• Online Solution of the Year - www.tastemag.co.za by New Media Publishing  
• Phillip Tyler Trophy- Launch or relaunch of the Year - Sarie Gesond from Media 24 Women's Interest
• Editor of the Year - Business to Business Sector - Peta Krost of Maunder from the Wits Business School  
• Editor of the Year - Customer Publishing Sector -  Sumien Brink from Woolworths Taste
• Jane Raphaely Consumer Editor of the Year - Jackie Burger from Elle magazine South Africa 
• Magazine of the Year- Customer Publishing - Woolworths Taste by New Media Publishing
• Watling Trophy Business to Business Magazine of the Year - Riskasa of Cosa Communications 
• Rossi Trophy Consumer Magazine of the Year - Elle South Africa by Avusa Media 

Adams & Adams is proud to be involved with the PICA Awards as we have been involved with the protecting of the fruits of their clients’ creativity in the form of trade marks, copyright, designs, and patents for over 100 years.