On September 22, 2016, public relations professionals from the Southern Public Relations Federation (SPRF) came together for their annual Lantern awards banquet honoring the best campaigns and materials in the past year. The organization consists of members from a four state area; Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
More than 130 awards were given in areas from long and short term public relations campaing sto collateral materials to crisis communications. Venessa Lewis, of Lewis Graphic Design was the recipient of the prestigious Lanern Award, the top prize in an given category. The Lantern was awarded for her long term marketing program for The Louisiana Mermaid. Lewis also took home an Award of Merit in the category of Collateral-Websites for The Louisiana Mermaid website. Judges comments ranged from “Such a creative, cool project, you turned a passion intoa shared passion”; “What excellent creativity and organizzation” ; “Absolutely impressive”; “Truly and inspiration.”
This year’s conference was held at the Marriott Grand Resort in Point Clear, Alabama.
