Kelly Michener Inc., a Lancaster advertising and public relations agency, has won top honors in this year's Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia awards.
The agency captured four gold awards for print ads for Lancaster General Hospital and a silver award for a 30-second TV ad for Hawk Valley Golf Course.
The honors were presented last night at the club's 58th annual awards show at the Sheraton Society Hill. The winners were chosen by a panel of six judges
from 912 entries. Unlike its practice in the last few years, the club decided not to name a "best of show" because it did not want to honor any one work over the others, club spokeswoman Gail S. Bower said.
Other winners included Michael Furman Photographer Ltd., a Philadelphia studio, which won three golds and two silver awards for ads created for Nissan, Elan Ski, AGFA Corp., and the U.S. Bobsled Project. Furman heads the local chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers.
Agencies winning two gold awards were Gillespie, a Princeton advertising agency, for a business-to-business ad for Yale Materials Handling, and for the Opera Festival of New Jersey; and FCB, a Philadelphia agency, for a set of playful TV ads for the Bell Atlantic Yellow Pages.
The winners will be shown at the Art Institute of Philadelphia during June.
