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Sparksheet, enroute.aircanada.com and enRoute magazine head up a list of 14 nominations garnered by Spafax media for this year’s National Magazine Awards, Canada’s Academy Awards of the magazine industry.

Air Canada’s enRoute leads the way with 12 nominations: 10 for the magazine and 2 for enroute.aircanada.com. Sparksheet, the online magazine which explores the convergence of content, media and marketing published by Spafax, received 2.

A full list of the nominees:

Best Digital Design: Sparksheet (team)

Best Multimedia Feature: enRoute: Canada’s Best New Restaurants

Best Service: Lifestyle: enRoute: Sarah Musgrave, Canada’s Best New Restaurants

Best Art Direction for a Single Article: enRoute: Nathalie Cusson, Ladies and Gentlemen Montreal

Best Art Direction for an Entire Issue: enRoute: Nathalie Cusson, The Family Travel Special

Best Art Direction for an Entire Issue: enRoute: Nathalie Cusson, The Food Issue

Fashion and Beauty Photography: enRoute: Gabor Jurina, Nathalie Cusson, Zeina Esmail, Aqua Fresh

Best Illustration: enRoute: Pascal Blanchet, The Family Travel Special

Best Spot Illustration: enRoute: Lauchie Reid, Higher Learning

Best Single Issue: enRoute: The Family Travel Special

Best Magazine Cover: enRoute: Nathalie Cusson, Natasha V, Belgium

Words & Pictures: enRoute: JF Legaré, Isa Tousignant, André Doyon, Food Souvenirs

Magazine of the Year (Digital): enroute.com

Magazine of the Year (Digital): Sparksheet

These nominations show the breadth of the offer at Spafax in digital and print, and in both editorial and design. “The nominees highlight our commitment to quality content creation and our belief that quality leads to higher levels of consumer engagement,” noted Content Director Arjun Basu.

The awards will be presented this year in Toronto on June 10th. You can find more information about the National Magazine Awards here.

The North American Travel Journalists Association is the premier professional association of writers, photographers, editors, and tourism professionals dedicated to redefining professional development for the travel industry. The competition is always fierce and the print and online versions of Air Canada’s enRoute was yet again very well represented.

The awards:

• Gold: ENROUTE, In-Flight Magazine
• Gold: Julian Smith, Sports and Recreation, Internet
• Gold: Sarah Steinberg, Personality and Profiles, Internet
• Gold: JF Legaré, Isa Tousignant, Susan Nerberg, Travel Tips and Adivce
• Silver: Leda & St. Jacques, Photography and Illustration, Overall Excellence
• Bronze: Lorne Bridgeman, Photography and Illustration, Overall Excellence
• Bronze: Susan Nerberg, Eco, Environmental or Special Service Travel, Print

Congratulations to the enRoute media team, all those at Spafax who support them – and a huge thanks to Air Canada for their inspiration and support.

IN magazine and digital media, and enRoute magazine won a total of 6 awards at the recently held Folio Awards in New York City.

IN, produced by our Santiago office for LAN, won 2 Gold Awards for:

• Best Use of Photography, Custom for the October, 2009 issue
• Best Custom Website, June 2009

IN also received a bronze award for best Automotive Article from its January 2010 issue.

enRoute, published by the Montreal and Toronto offices for Air Canada, won a silver and two bronze awards for:

• Silver, Best Custom, Full Issue for the November 2009 issue
• Bronze, Best Cover, May 2010
• Bronze, Best Overall Design, November 2010

Various Spafax media have won numerous Folio awards, both Eddies (for editorial excellence) and Ozzies (for artistic/design excellence) in the past, a good indication of its continuing dedication to high standards in both editorial and design. “I’m very proud of our team,” said Paula Fontaine, General Manager and Editorial Director of Spafax Chile. “Their talents show on every page of IN. We have created a strong brand in print and digital for a strong brand, LAN.”

“We believe that well-done, creative content enhances our clients’ brands,” said Spafax Editorial Director Arjun Basu. “The Folio Awards attract the world’s top media companies and always seem to recognize our efforts. Our work stands up to the best on offer and that’s a great feeling.”

For more information on the Folio Awards

www.folioawards.com

What do enRoute.aircanada.com, Brides.com, Seventeen.com and Vogue.com have in common? They’re all finalists in Min Online’s Best of the Web Awards in the Best Relaunch: Consumer category.

According to Spafax online web editor Sarah Steinberg, the nomination is a tremendous honour – there are a lot of travel and lifestyle websites out there but Spafax and Air Canada create something unique. And just look at the company we keep!

Min Online, the premier online resource chronicling the intersection of media and the internet, will present the awards April 7 in New York City’s Grand Hyatt Hotel.

Two Spafax publications (Fairmont and enRoute) were nominated for P&G Awards and enRoute ended up doing quite well, winning two awards overall. The P&G Awards are normally dominated by fashion titles. How did our magazines break through?

As travel lifestyle publishers, we’re able to create fashion writing and photography from a very different angle. I think the judges appreciated that. For our Best Cover win, for instance, we had commissioned two incredibly talented fashion photographers, Leda & St-Jacques, to do something very unconventional: shoot a model in front of the iconic Orange Julep in Montreal, with a pack of French poodles. (And yes, that was a fun wink to the sophisticated, French character of the city.) It’s a mix of highbrow and lowbrow that’s really striking; it’s certainly not your regular fashion shot or cover. The same could be said of senior editor Jean-François Légaré’s stories, which swept the editorial nominations. His winning feature looked at how emerging fashion designers can help brand cities like Amsterdam and Toronto. Many of the fashion magazines wouldn’t necessarily produce a piece on that scale, or with that innovative an angle.

What does it say about our magazines that we can “compete” with the major fashion titles in this country and win major awards on their turf?

I think it says something not only about the quality of our photography and our creative roster, but also the depth of knowledge about everything from fashion to art to science that we have in-house. As a group, we cover a lot of diverse areas of interest and do it very well.

The awards were attended by a who’s who of the Canadian fashion industry hosted by the fabulous Queen Latifah. We have to ask: What’s she like in person?

She’s very lovely, very funny and very natural. She had a script but most of the time wasn’t even reading it. Not to mention that she’s stunningly beautiful.