Gibens Creative Group, a newly-formed advertising agency in Tupelo, was recently recognized for their exceptional work in print and web categories, taking home ten ADDY^® Awards and the Judge’s Award for “Best-of-Show: Print.”  The ADDY^® Awards are the world's largest and most competitive annual advertising competition, attracting over 60,000 entries every year. A special panel in Memphis judged this year’s Mississippi Delta Advertising Federation entries.

All work entered in the MS Delta Ad Fed ADDY^® competition must have first appeared in the media between January 1 and December 31, 2007.

Gibens Creative Group won two Silver ADDY^®  Awards in the category of Collateral Material Brochure for the Old Waverly Golf Club Brochure and in the category of Advertising Industry Self-Promotion Creative Service and Industry Suppliers for their own Gibens Creative Group website. Gibens Creative Group also took home a Bronze Addy Award for their Stationary Package in the same Self-Promotion category. Gibens Creative Group, with their two Silver ADDY^® Awards, will advance to district competition.

Gibens Creative Group was awarded eight Bronze ADDY^® Awards. Five of these awards were in the category of Interactive Media Websites, Consumer, HTML/Other, Gibens Creative Group for their work on Elvis Presley Birthplace Website, NauticStar Boats Website, Glenn McCullough, Jr. Website, The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Website, and BancorpSouth Conference Center Website. In the category of Advertising for the Arts & Sciences, a Bronze was given for their Link Centre: Jazz @ The Link Poster Series, and another Bronze in the category of Elements of Advertising for their Lone Cypress Developments logo design.

The real excitement of the night came when Gibens Creative Group were awarded a special Judges’ Award for Best-of-Show: Print for the design and creation of the Old Waverly Golf Club Brochure.

“We were extremely pleased to have received the coveted Judges Award, for Best-of-Show: Print,” said Eric Gibens, CEO / President. “It means a lot to us that our clients and entire team win such praise from our peers. We are fortunate to have such talented people on our staff.”

“Being this is Gibens Creative Group’s first year competing in the ADDY^®, we are thrilled at the recognition of our hard work,” said Patrice Anderson, Creative Director.

The history of Gibens Creative Group began in 1999 as the web department of Redmagnet, Inc. In 2004 the web department expanded into Redmagnet's Creative Media Department, providing additional services such as logo and print production. Over the next three years, Redmagnet Creative Media continued to increase its staff bringing in additional talent and experience to the company.

Responding to this growth and recognizing client needs, Gibens Creative Group was established in 2007 in order to offer complete Integrated Design Concepts including: identity and branding, graphic design, custom website development, e-commerce solutions, print production, photography, video production, media planning and placement.