Council’s team has designs on success

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The Creative Exchange promotes in-house graphic design and photography across a range of public sector organisations including local authorities, hospitals, museum and galleries, universities, colleges and charities.

Renfrewshire's Lynzi Sutherland won the best Design for Print award for The Guide, Renfrewshire Arts and Museums' guide to events, with Gail McMillan and Alan Rafferty, also from the team, both coming runners up in the same category.

Gail McMillan also won the Corporate ID award for the council's waste management branding and the best 3D exhibition for the councils' 'Celebration of Science'.

The team's newest member Andrew Forteath won the Typography award for the council's programme of events celebrating the bicentenary of poet Robert Tannahill’s death.

The Creative Exchange Awards for 2010 were presented by Andrew Stevenson from Tangent Graphics at the CCA in Glasgow.

The design team were formed in 2008 after a restructure of the council's communications section.

Renfrewshire Council's Chief Executive David Martin said: "This is a fantastic achievement for the team and I am delighted that their hard work and talent has been recognised by other major organisations across Scotland. This is also a really positive endorsement of the council’s move to create one centralised corporate communications and design team. Since doing that we are saving over £100,000 a year, providing a more efficient service with arguably the best design team in Scotland."

Maxine Heggie, senior graphic designer, said: "We are really excited to have won these awards and I am incredibly proud of the team for all their hard work on such a broad range of projects. They do a fantastic job and it is especially nice that these awards are chosen by our fellow designers from across Scotland."

Press release issued: Monday 14 June 2010