# First at the American Design Awards

- **Date:** 2010-11-08
- **Client:** Wiener Hauskrankenpflege
- **Categories:** awards, our-work, press-clippings

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The [American Design Awards](http://americandesignawards.com/) are a young and independent competition. Founded in 2000, their aim is to reward projects and companies with a strong sense of ethics and a clearly defined commitment to the creative community.

Today, we are delighted to announce [we won the first prize](http://americandesignawards.com/summer-2010/) in the “Annual Report Design” category of the 2010 Summer Semi-Annual contest. We are especially proud of this one, considering there were 1 640 applicants in this particular edition and only 55 winners across all categories!

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Of course, the real winners are the product and the clients who commissioned it. In this particular instance, it is our long-term partner, the [Wiener Hauskrankenpflege](http://www.whs-wien.at/) who can add this accomplishment to their [long list of awards](/blog/clients/whs)!

The winning project was our [WHS Lagebericht 2009](/blog/2010/08/17/a-report-on-the-move.md), an annual report with a twist, presenting the WHS inside and out from both a financial and social standpoint. Blending original type, off-beat photography and engaging copy, it aimed to put a fresh twist on the dry and serious business of annual reports, without sacrificing legibility or, for that matter, usability — for these are essential legal documents after all.