We are pleased to announce that two of Hammock’s clients won awards during the 2022 APEX Awards competition. The APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. APEX Grand Awards honor the outstanding works in each main category, while APEX Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional entries in each of the individual subcategories.

OptimizeRx, a digital health company that is focused on bringing life sciences support to patients and providers, received the Grand Award in Design & Illustration for an infographic about multiple sclerosis. 

The infographic was part of a campaign that OptimizeRx created to communicate better solutions for pharmaceutical companies that want to generate awareness of, adherence to and initiation with specialized drugs and therapies for hard-to-reach multiple sclerosis patients. OptimizeRx shared its research on this topic in a series of four blog posts, along with an engaging infographic that worked on its own but combined into one larger infographic that told a complete story. The graphic designer was able to leverage the “X” in the company’s branding to execute a final compelling infographic that supported the brand story.

Hammock’s longtime client the Daughters of the American Revolution was also a winner and received two APEX Awards of Excellence. Hammock has partnered with the DAR for more than a decade to publish American Spirit magazine—and we’re excited to see them win once again.

The March/April 2021 issue of American Spirit magazine was recognized in the “Print Magazines, Journals & Tabloids” category. This issue of American Spirit served as the 11th annual Women’s History Month issue, and it featured articles on salons in Colonial America; Susanna Rowson, America’s first bestselling author; and how coverture laws affected early American women.

In the feature writing category, longtime Hammock writer Emily McMackin Dye was recognized with an Award of Excellence for her story “Deputy Husbands Kept the Home Fires Burning.” While their husbands were away at war or at sea, women kept the home fires burning, often raising and educating their children, managing finances, tending to the farms and livestock, and protecting their families from danger. Emily highlighted how the Revolutionary War created more opportunities for women such as Abigail Adams, Catherine Schuyler, Mary Bartlett and others to step outside traditional roles of the era and take charge of their households.

 

Last week we somehow missed the news that Hammock won a fourth APEX award, this one on behalf of its client BNP Solutions.

BNP Media’s eBook on Integrated Media Campaigns won an APEX award of excellence in the category of Electronic Publications.

Hammock won three awards on behalf of its clients in the 2017 APEX Awards competition, including its 14th Grand Award for American Spirit, the magazine of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Hammock has been the DAR’s publishing partner since 2002. The Source, HealthTrust’s member magazine, also won an Award of Excellence.

Projects that received awards were:

Grand Award for Feature Writing for “Long May She Wave: The Story of Annin Flagmakers” in the July/Aug 2016 American Spirit

Award of Excellence for the cover of the March/April 2017 American Spirit, featuring its seventh annual issue devoted to Women’s History Month

Award of Excellence for Custom-Published Magazines: The Source Q3 2016

APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. APEX Grand Awards honor the outstanding works in each main category, while APEX Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional entries in each of the individual categories.

Hammock won five awards on behalf of its clients in the 2016 APEX Awards competition, including its 13th Grand Award for American Spirit, the magazine of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Hammock has been the DAR’s publishing partner since 2002. Other award winners were The Source, HealthTrust’s member magazine, and the H2U newsletter, a custom-published health resource for members in select HCA hospitals.

Projects that received awards were:

Grand Award for Feature Writing for “A Lasting Legacy: DAR Schools” in the July/Aug 2015 American Spirit. (Written by Hammock’s own Emily McMackin)

Award of Excellence for the design and layout of the May/June 2015 American Spirit

Award of Excellence for Custom-Published Magazines: The Source Q4 2015

Award of Excellence for Feature Writing for “Combating the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis,” in the Q4 2015 issue of The Source (Written by Hammock’s own Megan Hamby)

Award of Excellence for Custom-Published Newsletters: H2U’s October 2015 newsletter

APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. APEX Grand Awards honor the outstanding works in each main category, while APEX Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional entries in each of the individual categories.

 

 

Hammock Inc’s work for four of its clients was recognized in the just-concluded 2015 Apex Awards competition. More than 1,900 entries were received in the 27th annual Apex contest. Projects that received Awards of Excellence were:

• “A Proud Pedigree: Tracing the History of Scottish Ancestors and Their Journey to the New World,” in the Sept./Oct. 2014 issue of American Spirit magazine, published for the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, received a Grand Award for Feature Writing. The judges praised the article: “You don’t have to be Scottish to find this in-depth, well-researched and interestingly written feature article a compelling read. You come away with a sense of the background and history of a people, and, if you happen to have Scottish ancestry, you also get an extensive range of resources with which to trace and learn more about that ancestry. A well-told story.”

• Magazine Writing (entire issue): Nov./Dec. 2014 American Spirit magazine

SemperFiCover• Design & Illustration – Magazine Covers: “Honoring the Fallen” in the May/June 2014 issue of Semper Fi magazine published for the Marine Corps League

• Feature Writing: “Lives on the Line” – an article on advances in battlefield medicine also in the May/June 2014 issue of Semper Fi magazine.

• Custom-published newsletters: H2U – Health to You newsletter Sept. 2014, published for H2U, LLC.

* Custom-Published Magazines, Journals & Tabloids: The Source magazine 2014 Q3, published for HealthTrust Purchasing Group

APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. APEX Grand Awards honor the outstanding works in each main category, while APEX Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional entries in each of the individual categories.

2014_winnerHammock Inc.’s work for clients has earned six Apex Awards, including a coveted Grand Award, in the just-concluded competition.

The Grand Award went to American Spirit, the bimonthly member magazine of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, which we have published for DAR since 2002, and which has taken a number of Grand Awards.

The competition’s judges lavished praise on the November-December 2013 issue of American Spirit, saying that, “This is a magazine  that never fails to appeal. The design and layout are richly stunning, but the editorial well is the tour de force here. Features are thoroughly researched and presented in a lively and engaging manner. You find yourself reading each to the end, even when the topic is one you didn’t think would particularly interest you. Top drawer in every respect.”

Apex Awards of Excellence were accorded to:

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Though we’re not going to dress up in fancy ballgowns or tuxes with Stetsons and hand-tooled boots like the folks at the CMA awards this week here in Nashville, we at Hammock are celebrating with our clients over a clutch of MarCom awards for the work we are honored to collaborate with our clients in creating.

The MarCom Awards is an international creative competition for anyone involved in the concept, writing and design of print, visual, audio and web materials and programs. The program is administered by AMCP, the Association of Marketing & Communication Professionals. There were about 6,000 entries this year from individuals to media conglomerates and Fortune 50 companies.

Here’s what was in the envelopes:

Here at Hammock we tend to subscribe to Natalie Portman’s philosophy that, “Awards are so unnecessary because [we] think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.” But that’s never stopped us from entering competitions or spreading the news of our success when we receive an award.

We recently learned that work we’ve done for clients received a total of five APEX Awards for Publication Excellence this year, including yet another Grand Award for American Spirit, the member magazine of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

RexBlog, penned by Hammock Inc. founder Rex Hammock, has been honored by Youngentrepreneur.com as one of its top business founders’ blogs.
Other business founders honored by the site include Bob Parsons, the CEO and Founder of GoDaddy; Guy Kawasaki, the managing director of the venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures; Virgin founder Richard Branson; and Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.
Youngentrepreneur said of the C-suite bloggers: “If you’re serious about being an entrepreneur, we highly recommend checking out these blogs and spending some time learning more about these CEOs and founders. They have remarkable success stories that inspire and educate us on how to be better entrepreneurs.”
An early adopter and explorer of blogging, Rex started his blog in August 2000. With his commitment to melding strong functional design with compelling content to provide a rich, accessible experience for readers, the RexBlog easily met Youngentrepreneur’s standards for its award.

Wausau Paper, one of the leading producers of paper in the country, has named Rex’s Rexblog.com to their top 10 list of blogs for printers and publishers. Here is what Wausau Paper’s blogger Patrick Henry wrote about Rexblog:
Rex Hammock started a custom publishing company in 1991. His focus as a blogger is content as it’s deployed across the full spectrum of publishing media—a concept that many printers and publishers, tied mostly to one medium, are still struggling to understand. Hammock is a prolific poster who has taken maximum advantage of the self-promotional tools now available to bloggers. His links (“Rex Connections”) are worth a visit to the site by themselves.