Medialine Announces Alex Awards Winners

Winners of the fourth annual Alex Entertainment Packaging Awards, the premier competition honoring creative excellence in music, movie and videogame packaging, were announced Aug. 9 on the closing night of the Entertainment Media Expo (EMX) in Universal City, Calif.

A record number of submissions were judged this year by two panels of leading entertainment media creative directors and package designers in Los Angeles and New York.

The awards program is supervised by EMX co-producer NewBay Media, publisher of Medialine, the leading trade magazine for entertainment media producers.

The packaging awards, open to movie, music and game content owners, producers, manufacturers, package vendors and distributors, are named in honor of Alex Steinweiss, who designed the industry's first illustrated album cover for Columbia Records in 1939.

A complete list of winners follows.

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Best CD Package, Single- or Double-Disc

Tool: “10,000 Days”

Label: Volcano Records
Art Director: Adam Jones
Illustrators: Travis Shinn and Alex Grey
Designer: Mackie Osborne
Packaging: AGI Media; Multi Packaging Solutions

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Best CD Boxed Set

Johnny Cash: “The Legend”

Label: Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Art Director: Ian Cuttler
Packaging and Printing: AGI Media
Other Vendors: Vertis

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Best Vinyl Record Package

The Raconteurs: “Broken Boy Soldiers”

Label: V2 Records
Photographer: Autumn De Wilde
Designers: Patrick Keeler and Alesksey Shirokov
Printing: Ross Ellis
Other Vendors: Graphic Therapy

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Best DVD Package, Single- or Double-Disc

“The Man Who Fell To Earth”

Studio: The Criterion Collection
Art Directors: Sarah Habibi and Neil Kellerhouse
Designers: Neil Kellerhouse and Peter Grant
Printing and Packaging: Shorewood Packaging
Other Vendors: Random House, Inc.

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Best DVD Package, Multi-Disc

“The Best of the Electric Company”

Studio: Shout!Factory
Art Directors: George McWilliams and Todd Gallopo, Meat and Potatoes, Inc.
Designer: Jason Ko
Printing: AGI Media
Packaging: Sonopress

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Best Limited Edition DVD Package

“Sex and The City: The Complete Series”

Studio: HBO Video
Art Director: Nick Ciallelo
Design: SJI Associates
Packaging: AGI Media

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Best Entertainment Software Package, Console Platforms

“Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy” (Xbox)

Publisher: Rockstar Games
Art Directors and Designers: Paul Yeates and Gauri Khindaria
Illustrators: Stephen Olds, Stephen Bliss and Anthony MacBain
Packaging: Shorewood Packaging

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Best Entertainment Software Package, Computer Platforms

“Age of Empires III: Collector's Edition”

Publisher: Microsoft
Art Direction: Nancy Ramsey, Microsoft; Concept Arts and Ensemble Studios
Design: Concept Arts

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Best Promotional CD/DVD, Entertainment Trade

The Doors: “Love/Death/Travel”

Label: Rhino Handmade
Packaging: Cinram-Ivy Hill

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Best Promotional CD/DVD, Consumer/Marketing

“Sundance Film Festival Collection”

Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Packaging: Cinram-Ivy Hill

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Best Entertainment Retail Marketing Materials

“Cinderella Platinum Edition”: Floor Display

Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Art Director: Andy Siditsky, BVHE
Designer: Renee Richardson
Printing: Sleepeck Printing Co.
Packaging: Cameo Container and Smurfit-Stone

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Best Structural Design

HBO: “For Your Emmy Consideration”

Studio: HBO
Art Director: Lauren McMahon
Designer: Jen Hurley, SJI Associates
Packaging: AGI Media

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Best Disc Decoration

“Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo Chapter 1”

Studio: Geneon Entertainment
Art Director: Sawako Furuya
Illustrator: Mahiro Maeda
Printing: Universal Engraving, Ray Products, Deluxe Media and Arkansas Graphics
Packaging: Deluxe Media

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Best Package Printing

Johnny Cash: “The Legend”

Label: Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Printing: AGI Media